續傳燈錄 18.38

18.38

東京慧林懷深慈受禪師。壽春府夏氏子。生而祥光現舍。文殊堅禪師遙見疑火也。詰且知師始生。往訪之。師見堅輒笑。母許出家。十四割愛冠祝髮。後四年訪道方外。依淨照於嘉禾資聖。照舉良遂見麻谷因緣問曰。如何是良遂知處。師即洞明。出住資福屨滿戶外。蔣山佛鑑懃禪師行化至。茶退師引巡寮。至千人街坊。鑑問。既是千人街坊。為什麼秖有一人。師曰。多虛不如少實。鑑曰。恁麼那。師赧然。偶朝延以資福為神霄宮。因棄往蔣山留西庵陣請益。鑑曰。資福知是般事便休。師曰。某實未穩。望和尚不外。鑑舉倩女離魂話。反覆窮之大豁疑礙。呈偈曰。秖是舊時行履處。等閒舉著便誵訛。夜來一陣狂風起。吹落桃花知幾多。鑑拊几曰。這底豈不是活祖師意。未幾被旨住焦山。僧問。如何是佛。師曰。面黃不是真金貼。曰如何是佛向上事。師曰。一箭一蓮花。僧作禮。師彈指三下。問知有道不得時如何。師曰。瘂子喫蜜。曰道得不知有時如何。師曰。鸚鵡喚人。僧禮拜。師叱曰。這傳語漢。問甚麼人不被無常吞。師曰。秖恐他無下口處。曰恁麼則一念通玄箭三尸鬼失姦也。師曰。汝有一念定被他吞了。曰無一念時如何。師曰。捉著闍黎。上堂。古者道。忍忍三世如來從此盡。饒饒萬禍千殃從此消。默默無上菩提從此得。師曰。會得此三種語了。好箇不快活漢。山僧秖是得人一牛還人一馬。潑水相唾插嘴廝罵。卓拄杖曰。平出平出。上堂。雲自何山起。風從甚㵎生。好箇入頭處。官路少人行。上堂。不是境亦非心。喚作佛時也陸沈。箇中本自無階級。切忌無階級處尋。總不尋過猶深。打破雲門飯袋子。方知赤土是黃金。咄。

Chan Master Huaishen Cishou of Huilin in the Eastern Capital was a native of Shouchun Prefecture, surnamed Xia. When he was born, an auspicious light appeared at the house; Chan Master Wenshu Jian saw it from afar and suspected it was a fire. Upon inquiring the next morning, he learned the master had just been born and went to visit him. As soon as the master saw Jian, he laughed. His mother permitted him to leave household life, and at fourteen, cutting off family attachments, he was tonsured. Four years later, he sought the Way beyond the mundane sphere, relying on Jingzhao at Zisheng in Jiahe. Zhao brought up the nidāna of Liangsui visiting Magu and asked, "What is Liangsui's place of knowing?" The master was immediately thoroughly enlightened. When he went forth to dwell at Zifu, shoes filled the outside of his door. Chan Master Fogjian Qin of Jiangshan arrived on a preaching tour. After tea, the master led him to inspect the quarters, reaching the Thousand-Person Ward. Qin asked, "Since it is the Thousand-Person Ward, why is there only one person?" The master said, "Much emptiness is not as good as a little reality." Qin said, "Is that so?" The master flushed with shame. It happened that the court turned Zifu into a Shenxiao Palace; therefore he abandoned it and went to Jiangshan, staying at the Western Hermitage to repeatedly request instruction. Qin said, "If Zifu knows it is this sort of affair, then stop." The master said, "I am truly not yet settled; I hope the Venerable will not treat me as an outsider." Qin brought up the topic of Qiannü's soul departing, probing it back and forth; the master greatly resolved his doubts and presented a verse saying: 'It is merely where I used to walk; / Casual mention of it brings confusion. / Last night a gust of wild wind arose; / Who knows how many peach blossoms were blown down?' Qin tapped the table and said, "Isn't this the living meaning of the Patriarchs?" Before long, an imperial order appointed him to dwell at Jiao Mountain. A monk asked, "What is the Buddha?" The master said, "A yellow face is not real gold leaf." The monk asked, "What is the affair beyond the Buddha?" The master said, "One arrow, one lotus flower." The monk bowed. The master snapped his fingers three times. The monk asked, "How is it when one knows it is there but cannot speak it?" The master said, "A mute eating honey." The monk asked, "How is it when one can speak it but does not know it is there?" The master said, "A parrot calling people." The monk bowed. The master scolded, "This message-bearing fellow!" The monk asked, "What kind of person is not swallowed by impermanence?" The master said, "I only fear it has no place to bite into." The monk said, "If so, then a single thought penetrates the profound arrow, and the Three Corpse ghosts lose their deceit." The master said, "If you have a single thought, you will certainly be swallowed by it." The monk asked, "How is it when there is no single thought?" The master said, "Captured, Ācārya!" Ascending the hall, [the master said:] "An ancient said: 'Patience, patience! The Tathāgatas of the three times end from this. Forbearance, forbearance! Ten thousand disasters and a thousand calamities melt away from this. Silence, silence! Unsurpassed bodhi is attained from this.'" The master said, "Once you comprehend these three phrases, what an unhappy fellow! This mountain monk merely gets a cow from someone and returns a horse, splashing water and spitting at one another, interrupting and cursing each other." Striking his staff, he said, "All come out evenly! All come out evenly!" Ascending the hall: "From which mountain do clouds arise? / From which ravine is wind born? / A fine place of entry; / On the official road, few people walk." Ascending the hall: "It is not the environment, nor is it the mind; / Even calling it Buddha causes it to sink away. / Within this there are originally no gradations; / Take care not to seek where there are no gradations. / If you do not seek at all, the fault is even deeper; / Break open the rice bag of Yunmen, / Only then do you know red earth is yellow gold. Du!"