續傳燈錄 25.14

25.14

嘉州九頂清素禪師。本郡郭氏子。於乾明寺剃染遍扣禪扃。晚謁五祖聞舉首山答西來意語。倏然契悟。述偈曰。顛倒顛顛倒顛。新婦騎驢阿家牽。便恁麼太無端。回顧不覺布衫穿。祖見廼問。百丈野狐話又作麼生。師曰。來說是非者便是是非人。祖大悅。久之辭歸。住清溪。次遷九頂。太守呂公來瞻大像問曰。既是大像因甚麼肩負兩楹。師曰。船上無散工至。閣下覩觀音像。又問。彌勒化境觀音何來。師曰。家富小兒嬌。守乃禮敬。勤老宿至。師問。舞劍當咽時如何。曰伏惟尚饗。師詬曰。老賊死去。爾問我。勤理前語問之。師叉手揖曰。拽破。紹興乙卯四月二十四日得微疾。書偈遺眾曰。木人備舟。鐵人備馬。丙丁童子穩穩登。喝散白雲歸去也。竟爾趨寂。

Chan Master Qingsu of Jiuding in Jiazhou was a son of the Guo family of that prefecture. He was tonsured at Qianming Monastery and knocked on the doors of Chan throughout [the land]. In his later years he visited Wuzu, and upon hearing him bring up Shoushan's reply regarding the meaning of the Patriarch's coming from the West, he suddenly had an awakening. He composed a verse: 'Upside-down and topsy-turvy, topsy-turvy and upside-down, / The bride rides the donkey, the mother-in-law leads it. / Just so, it is utterly without rhyme or reason; / Looking back, I didn't realize my cloth shirt was worn through.' When Wuzu saw it, he asked, 'What about Baizhang's story of the wild fox?' The Master said, 'One who comes to speak of right and wrong is precisely the person of right and wrong.' Wuzu was greatly pleased. After a long while, [the Master] took his leave and returned, residing at Qingxi, and later moved to Jiuding. Prefect Lord Lü came to view the Great Statue and asked, 'Since it is the Great Statue, why do its shoulders bear two pillars?' The Master said, 'On a boat there are no idle hands.' Arriving at the pavilion and beholding the statue of Guanyin, [the Prefect] asked again, 'In the transformation realm of Maitreya, whence comes Guanyin?' The Master said, 'When the family is wealthy, the young child is pampered.' The prefect then bowed with reverence. The venerable elder Qin arrived. The Master asked, 'What about when the dancing sword is at the throat?' [Qin] said, 'Respectfully, may [the spirits] partake of the offering!' The Master scolded him, saying, 'Old thief, go die! You ask me!' Qin followed the previous words and asked him. The Master clasped his hands in a salute and said, 'Torn open!' On the twenty-fourth day of the fourth month in the yimao year of Shaoxing, he contracted a slight illness. He wrote a verse and left it to the assembly: 'The wooden man readies a boat; / The iron man readies a horse. / The boy Bingding steps aboard steadily; / Shouting away the white clouds, I return.' Thereupon he passed away into silence.