<!-- Pramāṇa, a library of Indian primary sources · https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.29.22 -->

[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) › 29.22

# 續傳燈錄 29.22

續傳燈錄 29.22

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [29.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.29.22)

撫州白楊法順禪師。綿州文氏子。依止佛眼聞普說。舉傅大士心王銘云。水中鹽味色裏膠青決定是有不見其形。師於言下有省。後觀寶藏迅轉頓明大法。趨丈室作禮呈偈曰。頂有異峯雲冉冉。源無別派水冷冷。游山未到山窮處。終被青山礙睛眼。眼笑而可之。住後上堂。好事堆堆疊疊來。不須造作與安排。落林黃葉水推去。橫谷白雲風卷回。寒雁一聲情念斷。霜鐘纔動我山摧。白楊更有過人處。盡夜寒爐撥死灰。忽有箇衲僧出來道。長老少賣弄得恁麼窮乞相。山僧秖向他道。却被爾道著。上堂。我手何似佛手。天上南星北斗。我脚何似驢脚。往事都來忘却。人人盡有生緣。箇箇足方頂圓。大愚灘頭立處。孤月影射深灣。會不得見還難。一曲漁歌過遠灘。示眾。染緣易就道業難成。不了目前萬緣差別。秖見境風浩浩。凋殘功德之林。心火炎炎燒盡菩提之樹。道念若同情念成佛多時。為眾一似為己。彼此事辦。不見他非我是。自然上敬下恭。佛法時時現前。煩惱塵塵解脫。上堂。雞鳴曉月狗吠枯椿。只可默會難入思量。看不見處動地放光。說不到處天地玄黃。撫城尺六狀紙。元來出在清江。大眾。分明話出人難見。昨夜三更月到窓。上堂。風吹茅茨。屋脊漏雨打。闍黎眼睛濕。恁麼分明却不知。却來這裏低頭立。時紹燈上座聞之有省。後住婺之廣教。因病示眾。久病未嘗推木枕。人來多是問如何。山僧據問隨緣對。窓外黃鸝口更多。只如七尺之軀甚處受病。眾中具眼者試為山僧指出病源。眾下語皆不契。師自拊掌一下作嘔吐聲。又云好箇木枕子。師律身清苦。出入唯杖笠獨行。後示寂闍維收設利目睛齒舌數珠同靈骨塔于寺西。

> Chan Master Baiyang Fashun of Fuzhou was a son of the Wen family of Mianzhou. He relied on Foyan and heard his general address, which cited Mahāsattva Fu's Inscription on the Mind King: 'The salty taste in water, the glue-blue in color: they are definitely there, but their form is not seen.' The Master had an awakening upon hearing these words. Later, watching the rapid spinning of the scriptural canon, he suddenly understood the Great Dharma. He hurried to the abbot's quarters, bowed, and presented a gāthā, saying: / 'At the peak is a singular crag, with clouds gently rising; / At the source is no other branch, with waters cool and clear. / Roaming the mountains, not yet reaching where the mountain ends, / One's eyes are ultimately blocked by the green mountain.' / Foyan smiled and approved him. After becoming abbot, he ascended the hall: 'Good things come piling up in heaps; there is no need for fabrication or contrivance. Yellow leaves falling from the forest are pushed away by water; white clouds crossing the valley are swept back by the wind. At a single cry of the cold wild goose, emotional thoughts are severed; no sooner does the frost-bell toll than my mountain crumbles. Baiyang has a further point surpassing others: through the whole night at the cold stove, poking at dead ashes. If suddenly a patch-robed monk stepped forward and said, "Elder, why show off such a beggar-like appearance?", this mountain monk would only say to him, "You have indeed struck it right."' He ascended the hall: 'How is my hand like a Buddha's hand? In the sky, the Southern Dipper and the Northern Dipper. How is my foot like a donkey's foot? Past affairs are completely forgotten. Everyone has their birth nidāna; each has square feet and a round head. Where Dayu stood on the beachhead, the shadow of the solitary moon shines into the deep bay. Failing to understand, it is hard to see; a single fisherman's song passes the distant rapids.' He instructed the assembly: 'Karmic defilements are easily formed, but the practice of the Way is hard to accomplish. Without comprehending the distinction of the myriad conditions before your eyes, you only see the winds of sense-objects surging mightily, withering the forest of merit, and the fire of the mind blazing fiercely, burning down the tree of bodhi. If your thoughts of the Way were like your thoughts of emotional desires, you would have become a Buddha long ago. If you act for the assembly just as you do for yourself, the affairs of both sides will be settled. Without seeing another's faults and your own correctness, naturally those above will be respected and those below treated with deference. The Buddhadharma will be manifested at all times, and vexations will be liberated in every speck of dust.' He ascended the hall: 'A cock crows at the dawn moon; a dog barks at a withered stump. This can only be tacitly understood; it is hard to grasp with thought. Where it cannot be seen, it shakes the earth and radiates light; where speech cannot reach, heaven and earth are dark and yellow. A one-foot-six official paper of Fucheng originally came from Qingjiang. Great assembly! When the words are clearly spoken, it is hard for people to see. Late last night at the third watch, the moon reached the window.' He ascended the hall: 'The wind blows the thatched eaves, the roof ridge leaks, and the rain falls; the ācārya's eyes are wet. Being so clear, yet you do not know it, and instead come here standing with bowed heads.' At that time, Senior Monk Shaodeng heard this and had an awakening; later he resided at Guangjiao in Wu. Due to illness, he instructed the assembly: 'During my long illness, I have never pushed away the wooden pillow. Most people who come ask how I am. This mountain monk responds according to circumstances based on their questions; outside the window, the yellow oriole is even more talkative. But tell me: Where in this seven-foot body does the illness reside? Let those in the assembly who possess the eye try to point out the source of the illness for this mountain monk.' The phrases offered by the assembly all failed to accord. The Master clapped his hands once, made a retching sound, and also said, 'What a fine wooden pillow!' The Master maintained a pure and austere discipline; when going out or coming in, he walked alone with only a staff and bamboo hat. Later he manifested nirvāṇa. After the cremation, his śarīra, eyes, teeth, tongue, and rosary beads were collected together with his sacred bones and enshrined in a stūpa to the west of the monastery.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

- [Previous: 29.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.29.21)
- [Next: 29.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.29.23)
- [Up: 29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.29)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077~en-mt.29.22) — English, machine translation

---
Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.29.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.29.22) · Pramāṇa
