續傳燈錄 20.8

20.8

廬山萬杉紹慈禪師。姓趙氏桂州人。十八受具十九遊方。久參總禪師。一日侍立次。問世尊付金欄外別傳何物。總舉起拂子。師曰。畢竟作麼生。總以拂子驀口打。師擬開口。總又打。師忽然有省。遂奪拂子禮拜。總云。汝見何道理。師曰。拂子屬某甲了。總云。三十年老將。今日被小卒折倒。自此名聲藉藉。推為東林上首。遂出世萬杉。僧問。解接無根樹能挑海底燈意旨如何。師曰。特地光輝。僧云。兔角點開千聖眼。龜毛拂盡九衢塵。師曰。寒山拊掌。僧云。好手手中呈好手。紅心心裏射紅心。師曰。闍梨還接得也未。僧云。蓮社老師親得旨。人間天上盡蒙恩。師曰。蹉却話頭。問千聖共傳無底鉢。曹溪路上許誰同。如何是無底鉢。師曰。千人趒不出。僧云。萬里游滄海忻逢倒嶽波。師曰。不是弄潮人。問祖師心印狀似鐵牛之機。正當恁麼時印即是不印即是。師曰。看取爐中鐵彈子。僧云。忽然打破又作麼生。師曰。須知痛痒。僧云。今日得遇和尚。師曰。語脈裏轉却。乃曰。陽鳥啼春觀音戶啟。清泉照月毘盧界彰。鶴鳴峯頭聲聲不別。散珠亭上顆顆圓成。乍隱乍彰不撥自轉。還有收得者麼。試呈似看。良久曰。可笑猿猴探白月。不知真箇有蟾蜍。下座。又曰。赤水之珠清江之月。猿猴競探徙爾迷蹤。罔象無心超然自得。所謂視之有餘光。攬之不盈手。出沒無窮往來無際。然雖如是。下坡不走快便難逢。乃喝一喝拍一拍云。赤水之珠清江之月瓦解氷消。眾中還有英靈變豹者麼。出來救取一半。良久曰。可憐此意無人會。却使陶潛暗皺眉。又示眾曰。玉溪不會禪。秖識諸方病。驀下霹靂散。轉殺也不定。左丞蔡卞讚師真云。靈光頭頭顯現。獼猴亦背一面。若人欲識師真。打破鏡來相見。

Chan Master Wanshan Shaoci of Mount Lu was a native of Guizhou surnamed Zhao. At eighteen he received full ordination, and at nineteen he wandered the regions. He studied long under Chan Master Zong. One day as he was standing in attendance, he asked, "Outside of transmitting the gold-embroidered robe, what else did the Bhagavat transmit separately?" Zong held up his whisk. The master said, "Ultimately, how is it?" Zong struck him right across the mouth with the whisk. As the master was about to open his mouth, Zong struck him again. The master suddenly had an awakening; he seized the whisk and made prostrations. Zong said, "What principle did you see?" The master said, "The whisk belongs to me now." Zong said, "A veteran general of thirty years has today been defeated by a low soldier." From then on his fame resounded far and wide, and he was promoted to head monk at Donglin. He then came forth into the world at Wanshan. A monk asked, "'Knowing how to graft the rootless tree, capable of trimming the lamp at the bottom of the sea'—what is the meaning?" The master said, "Extraordinary radiance." The monk said, "Hare horns touch open the eyes of the thousand sages; turtle hairs sweep clean the dust of the nine thoroughfares." The master said, "Hanshan claps his hands." The monk said, "A deft hand presenting a deft hand among hands; shooting the bullseye directly within the bullseye." The master said, "Has the Ācārya grafted it yet or not?" The monk said, "The venerable master of the Lotus Society personally obtained the purport; humans and devas all receive the grace." The master said, "You missed the topic of conversation." He asked, "The thousand sages together transmit the bottomless bowl; on the road of Caoxi, who is permitted to accompany? What is the bottomless bowl?" The master said, "A thousand people cannot jump out of it." The monk said, "Traveling ten thousand li on the vast sea, rejoicing to encounter waves that overturn peaks." The master said, "You are not one who plays with the tide." He asked, "The Patriarch's mind seal is shaped like the mechanism of an iron ox. Right at such a time, is sealing right, or is not sealing right?" The master said, "Look at the iron pellet in the furnace." The monk said, "If it suddenly shatters, how is it then?" The master said, "One must know pain and itch." The monk said, "Today I have had the fortune of meeting the Upādhyāya." The master said, "Turned away within the pulse of speech." He then said, "The sun bird cries of spring, and Avalokiteśvara's door opens. The clear spring reflects the moon, and the realm of Vairocana is manifest. Atop Crane-Calling Peak, sound after sound is indistinguishable. On the Pavilion of Scattered Pearls, pearl after pearl is completely round. Abruptly hidden, abruptly manifest, turning on its own without being nudged—is there anyone who has gathered it up? Pray try presenting it for inspection." After a long pause, he said, "Laughable is the monkey reaching for the white moon, unaware that there truly is a toad." He descended from the seat. He also said, "The pearl of the Red Water, the moon in the clear river: monkeys vie to reach for it, only losing their tracks; Wangxiang is without mind, transcendent and self-contented. As it is said: Looking at it, there is surplus light; gathering it, it does not fill the hand. Emerging and submerging without end, going and coming without bounds. Although it is like this, not running downhill, swift convenience is rare to meet." He then gave a shout, clapped his hands once, and said, "The pearl of the Red Water and the moon in the clear river collapse like tiles and melt like ice. Among the assembly, is there a spirited one who transforms like a leopard? Come forward and rescue half!" After a long pause, he said, "Pitiable that no one understands this meaning; it only makes Tao Qian secretly knit his brows." He also instructed the assembly, saying, "Yuxi does not understand Chan; he only recognizes the ailments of the various quarters. A sudden bolt of lightning scatters them; shifting to kill is also uncertain." Cai Bian, Assistant Director of the Left, praised the master's portrait, saying, "The spiritual light is manifest in each and every thing; the macaque also turns its back. If one wishes to know the master's true face, break the mirror and come meet him."