續傳燈錄 26.10

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隆興府雲巖典牛天游禪師。成都鄭氏子。初試郡庠。復往梓州試。二處皆與貢籍。師不敢承。竄名出關。適會山谷道人西還。因見其風骨不凡議論超卓。乃同舟而下。竟往廬山投師剃髮不改舊名。首參死心不契。遂依湛堂於泐潭。一日潭普說曰。諸人苦苦就準上座覓佛法。遂拊膝曰。會麼。雪上加霜。又拊膝曰。若也不會豈不見。乾峯示眾曰。舉一不得舉二。放過一著落在第二。師聞脫然頴悟。出世雲蓋。次遷雲巖。嘗和忠道者牧牛頌曰。兩角指天。四足踏地。拽斷鼻繩。放甚屎屁。張無盡見之甚擊節。後退雲巖過廬山。棲賢主翁意不欲納。乃曰。老老大大正是質庫中典牛也。師聞之述一偈而去曰。質庫何曾解典牛。秖緣價重實難酬。想君本領無多子。畢竟難禁這一頭。因菴于武寧。扁曰典牛。終身不出塗毒見之已九十三矣。上堂卓拄杖曰。久雨不晴劄。金烏飛在鐘樓角。又卓一下曰。猶在殼。復卓曰。一任衲僧名邈。上堂。馬祖一喝百丈蹉過。臨濟小廝兒。向糞掃堆頭拾得一隻破草鞋。胡喝亂喝。師震聲喝曰。喚作胡喝亂喝得麼。上堂。象骨輥毬能已盡。玄沙斫牌伎亦窮。還知麼。火星入袴口。事出急家門。上堂。三百五百銅頭鐵額。木笛橫吹誰來接拍。時有僧出。師曰。也是賊過後張弓。上堂。寶峯有一訣。對眾分明說。昨夜三更前。烏龜吞却鼈。冬至令節上堂。晷運推移日南長至。布裩不洗無來換替。大小玉泉無風浪起。雲巖路見不平。直下一鎚粉碎遂高聲曰。看脚下。上堂舉。梁山曰。南來者與爾三十棒。北來者與爾三十棒。然雖與麼未當宗乘。後來琅邪和尚道。梁山好一片真金捋作頑鐵賣却。琅邪則不然。南來者與爾三十棒。北來者與爾三十棒。從教天下貶剝。師拈曰。一人能舒不能卷。一人能卷不能舒。雲巖門下一任南來北來。且恁麼過。驀然洗面摸著鼻頭却來與爾三十。上堂。日可冷月可熱。眾魔不能壞真說。作麼生是真說。初三十一中九下七。若信不及。雲巖與汝道破。萬人齊指處。一雁落寒空。病起上堂舉。馬大師日面佛月面佛。後來東山演和尚頌曰。了鬟女子畫蛾眉。鸞鏡臺前語似癡。自說玉顏難比並。却來架上著羅衣。師曰。東山老翁滿口讚歎則故是。點檢將來未免有鄉情在。雲巖又且不然。打殺黃鶯兒。莫教枝上啼。幾回驚妾夢。不得到遼西。

Chan Master Tianyou, "Pawned Ox" of Yunyan in Longxing Prefecture, was a son of the Zheng family of Chengdu. First he took the examination at the commandery school, and then went to Zizhou to take the examination. Both places granted him the rank of tribute scholar. The master did not dare accept it; he changed his name and left the pass. By chance he met the Daoist of Shangu returning west. Seeing his uncommon character and transcendent discourse, they took the same boat downstream. He went straight to Mount Lu, placed himself under a master, had his head shaved, and did not change his former name. He first visited Sixin but did not connect, so he relied upon Zantang at Letan. One day, Letan gave a general discourse, saying, "All of you strive bitterly to seek the Buddha Dharma from Elder Zhun." He then slapped his knee and said, "Do you understand? Adding frost on top of snow." He slapped his knee again and said, "If you still do not understand, have you not seen: Qianfeng instructed the assembly, saying: 'Raising one, do not raise two; letting the first move pass falls into the second.'" Hearing this, the master attained a clear and open awakening. He emerged into the world at Y蓋 (Yungai), and then transferred to Yunyan. He once matched Practitioner Zhong's "Oxherding Verse": "Two horns point to the sky, / Four feet tread the earth. / Snapping the nose rope, / What shit or fart is there to let out?" Zhang Wujin was greatly impressed upon seeing it. Later he retired from Yunyan and passed by Mount Lu. The master of Xixian had no intention of receiving him, so he said, "At such an advanced age, he is truly a pawned ox in a pawnshop." Hearing this, the master composed a verse and left, saying: "How could a pawnshop ever know how to pawn an ox? / It is only because the price is heavy and truly hard to match. / I imagine your basic capability is not much; / In the end it is hard to bear this single head!" Thereupon he built a hermitage at Wuning, with a plaque reading "Pawned Ox." For the rest of his life he did not go out. When Tudu met him, he was already ninety-three years old. He ascended the hall, planted his staff, and said, "A prolonged rain not clearing up—snap! The golden crow flies to the corner of the bell tower." He planted it once more and said, "Still in the shell." He planted it again and said, "Let patch-robed monks describe it as they will!" He ascended the hall and said, "With Mazu's single shout, Baizhang missed the mark. That young lad Linji picked up a worn-out straw sandal from a dung heap, shouting recklessly and wildly." The master shouted with a resounding voice and said, "Can this be called shouting recklessly and wildly?" He ascended the hall and said, "Xianggu rolling the ball—his skill was exhausted. Xuansha cutting the signboard—his craft was also at an end. Do you still understand? A spark enters the opening of the trousers—the matter arises right at the doorstep of the urgent." He ascended the hall and said, "Three hundred, five hundred, copper heads and iron foreheads; the wooden flute is blown horizontally, who will come to catch the beat?" At that time a monk came forward. The master said, "Drawing the bow after the thief has already passed." He ascended the hall and said, "Baofeng has a directive, spoken clearly to the assembly: last night before the third watch, the black tortoise swallowed the turtle." On the winter solstice festival, he ascended the hall and said, "The shadow shifts, the sun reaches its southern extreme. The cloth breeches are unwashed, with no replacement to change into. On Great and Little Yuquan, waves rise without wind. Seeing injustice along the road, Yunyan smashes it to powder with a single hammer blow!" He then said in a loud voice, "Watch your step!" He ascended the hall and cited: "Liangshan said, 'To those coming from the south I give thirty blows of the stick; to those coming from the north I give thirty blows of the stick. Although it is like this, it does not yet hit the mark of the ancestral lineage.' Later, Venerable Langye said, 'Liangshan took a fine piece of true gold and sold it as base iron. Langye is not like that: to those coming from the south I give thirty blows of the stick; to those coming from the north I give thirty blows of the stick—let the whole world depreciate and criticize it!'" The master appraised it, saying, "One can unfurl but cannot roll up; one can roll up but cannot unfurl. Under Yunyan's gate, let them come from the south or come from the north as they will—let it pass like this for now. If suddenly you wash your face and touch your nose, then come and I will give you thirty blows!" He ascended the hall and said, "The sun may grow cold, the moon may grow hot, but all demons cannot destroy the true discourse. What is the true discourse? Beginning three, eleven; middle nine, lower seven. If you cannot believe this, Yunyan will explain it clearly for you: where ten thousand people point together, a single wild goose falls from the cold sky." Arising from illness, he ascended the hall and cited: "Great Master Ma said, 'Sun Face Buddha, Moon Face Buddha.' Later, Venerable Yan of Dongshan composed a verse: 'A girl with bound coils paints her moth eyebrows; / Before the luan mirror stand, her words seem foolish. / Saying herself that her jade face is hard to match, / She then comes to the rack to put on silken robes.'" The master said, "For the old man of Dongshan to praise it with a full mouth is indeed so, but examining it closely, he inevitably retains some local sentiment. Yunyan is again not like that: 'Beat to death the yellow oriole; / Do not let it sing on the branch. / Many times it has startled my lady's dreams, / Preventing her from reaching Liaoxi.'"},Boolean(false) ? null : {