[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [續傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077) › 26.31 # 續傳燈錄 26.31 續傳燈錄 26.31 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [26.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.26.31) 慶元府二靈知和庵主。蘇臺玉峯張氏子。兒時嘗習坐垂堂。堂傾父母意其必死。師瞑目自若因使出家年滿得度。趨謁泐潭。潭見乃問作甚麼。師擬對。潭便打。復喝曰。爾喚甚麼作禪師驀領旨。即曰。禪無後無先。波澄大海月印青天。又問如何是道。師曰。道紅塵浩浩不用安排本無欠少。潭然之。次謁衡嶽辯禪師。辯尤契重。元符間抵雪竇之中峯栖雲兩庵逾二十年。嘗有偈曰。竹筧二三升野水。松窓五七片閑雲。道人活計秖如此。留與人間作見聞。有志於道者多往見之。僧至禮拜。師曰。近離甚處。曰天童。師曰。太白峯高多少。僧以手砟額作望勢。師曰。猶有這箇在。曰却請庵主道。師却作斫額勢。僧擬議。師便打。師初偕天童交禪師問道盟曰。他日吾二人宜踞孤峯絕頂目視霄漢為世外之人。不可作今時籍名官府屈節下氣於人者。後交爽盟。至則師竟不接。正言陳公以計誘師出山。住二靈三十年間居無長物。唯二虎侍其右。一日威於人以偈遣之。宣和七年四月十二日趺坐而逝。正言陳公狀師行實。及示寂異跡甚詳。仍塑其像二虎侍之。至今存焉。 > Hermitage Master Zhihe of Erling in Qingyuan Prefecture was a son of the Zhang family of Yufeng in Sutai. As a child, he once practiced sitting meditation under the eaves of an overhanging hall; when the hall collapsed, his parents thought he had surely died, but the master kept his eyes closed and remained composed as before, so they allowed him to leave home; upon coming of age, he was ordained. He hurried to pay respects to Letan. When Letan saw him, he asked, 'What are you doing?' The master was about to reply when Letan struck him, shouted again, and said, 'What do you call Chan?' The master immediately grasped the import and said, 'Chan has no after and no before; waves settle on the great sea, the moon prints the blue sky.' Letan also asked, 'What is the Way?' The master said, 'The red dust billows vast and wide; no arrangement is needed, inherently lacking nothing.' Letan approved. Next, he called on Chan Master Bian of Mount Heng, who was especially in accord with and esteemed him. During the Yuanfu era, he reached the two hermitages of Zhongfeng and Qiyun on Xuedou, staying for more than twenty years. He once had a verse saying: > 'A bamboo conduit brings two or three pints of wild water; > A pine window frames five or seven patches of idle clouds. > The man of the Way's livelihood is only this, > Left for the human world to see and hear.' > Many who were aspired to the Way went to see him. A monk arrived and bowed. The master said, 'Where have you recently left?' The monk said, 'Tiantong.' The master said, 'How high is Taibai Peak?' The monk shielded his forehead with his hand and made the gesture of gazing into the distance. The master said, 'There is still this.' The monk said, 'I ask the hermitage master to say.' The master also made the gesture of shielding his forehead. The monk hesitated. The master struck him. Earlier, when the master and Chan Master Jiao of Tiantong sought the Way together, they made a covenant, saying: 'In the future, the two of us should sit atop solitary peaks and sheer summits, gazing at the clouds and heavens as men beyond the world. We must not be like those nowadays who register their names with the government, bowing and humbling themselves to others.' Later, Jiao broke the covenant; when he arrived, the master refused to receive him. The policy critic Mr. Chen used a stratagem to entice the master out of the mountains. He lived at Erling for thirty years, possessing no superfluous belongings, with only two tigers attending at his right side. One day, because they frightened people, he dismissed them with a verse. On the twelfth day of the fourth month in the eleventh year of Xuanhe, he sat cross-legged and passed away. The policy critic Mr. Chen recorded the master's conduct and deeds and the extraordinary signs of his passing in great detail, and had statues made of him attended by the two tigers, which exist to this day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 26.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.26.30) - [Next: 26.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.26.32) - [Up: 26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.26) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077~en-mt.26.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.26.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.26.31) · Pramāṇa