續傳燈錄 19.9

19.9

婺州寶林果昌禪師。安州時氏子。師與提刑楊次公入山。同遊山次。楊拈起大士飯石問。既是飯石為甚麼齩不破。師曰。秖為太硬。楊曰。猶涉繁詞。師曰。未審提刑作麼生。楊曰硬。師曰。也是第二月。楊為寫七佛殿額。乃問。七佛重出世時如何。師曰。一回相見一回新。上堂。一即一二即二。嗅著直是無香氣。驀拈拄杖卓一下曰。識得山僧楖𣗖條。莫向南山尋鼈鼻。

Chan Master Guochang of Baolin in Wuzhou was a son of the Shi clan of Anzhou. The master went into the mountains with Surveillance Vice Commissioner Yang Cigong. While they were touring the mountains together, Yang picked up Mahāsattva [Fu]'s 'meal-rock' and asked: "Since it is a meal-rock, why cannot one bite through it?" The master said: "Only because it is too hard." Yang said: "That still involves superfluous words." The master said: "I wonder how the Surveillance Vice Commissioner would put it?" Yang said: "Hard." The master said: "That too is the second moon." Yang wrote the plaque for the Seven Buddhas Hall, and then asked: "What about when the Seven Buddhas reappear in the world?" The master said: "Each encounter is ever new." He ascended the hall and said: "One is one, two is two; / Smelling it, there is truly no fragrance at all." Abruptly holding up his staff, he struck it once and said: "If you recognize this mountain monk's walking stick, / Do not go toward the South Mountain looking for a turtle-nosed snake!"