續傳燈錄 3.9

3.9

舒州法華院全舉禪師。到公安遠和尚處。安問。作麼生是伽藍。師曰。深山藏獨虎。淺草露群蛇。曰作麼生是伽藍中人。師曰。青松蓋不得。黃葉豈能遮。曰道甚麼。師曰。少年翫盡天邊月。潦倒搏桑沒日頭。曰一句兩句雲開月露作麼生。師曰。照破佛祖。到大愚芝和尚處。愚問。古人見桃花意作麼生。師曰。曲不藏直。曰那箇且從這箇作麼生。師曰。大街拾得金。四隣爭得知。曰上座還知麼。師曰。路逢劍客須呈劍。不是詩人不獻詩。曰作家詩客。師曰。一條紅線兩人牽。曰玄沙道。諦當甚諦當敢保老兄未徹在。又作麼生。師曰。海枯終見底。人死不知心。曰却是。師曰。樓閣凌雲勢。峯巒疊翠層。到琅邪覺和尚處。邪問。近離甚處。師曰。兩浙。曰船來陸來。師曰。船來。曰船在甚處。師曰。步下。曰不涉程途一句作麼生道。師以坐具摵一摵曰。杜撰長老如麻似粟。拂袖而出。邪問侍者。此是甚麼人。者曰。舉上座。邪曰。莫是舉師叔麼。先師教我尋見伊。遂下且過問。上座莫是舉師叔麼。莫怪適來相觸忤。師便喝。復問。長老何時到汾陽。邪曰。某時到。師曰。我在浙江早聞爾名。元來見解秖如此。何得名播寰宇。邪遂作禮曰。某甲罪過。師到杭州西菴。菴主曾見明招。主舉頌曰。絕頂西峯上。峻機誰敢當。超然凡聖外。瞥起兩重光。師曰。如何是兩重光。主曰。月從東出日向西沒。師曰。菴主未見明招時如何。主曰。滿盞油難盡。師曰。見後如何。主曰。多心易得乾。住後僧問。如何是奪人不奪境。師曰。白菊乍開重日暖。百年公子不逢春。曰如何是奪境不奪人。師曰。大地絕消息。翛然獨任真。曰如何是人境兩俱奪。師曰。草荒人變色。凡聖兩齊空。曰如何是人境俱不奪。師曰。清風與明月。野來笑相親。上堂。釋迦不出世。達磨不西來。佛法遍天下。談玄口不開。上堂。鐘鳴鼓響鵲噪鴉鳴。為爾諸人說般若講涅槃了也。諸人還信得及麼。觀音菩薩向諸人面前作大神通。若信不及。却往他方救苦利生去也。上堂。開口又成增語。不開口又成剩語。乃曰。金輪天子勅。草店家風別。上堂。三世諸佛口挂壁上。天下老和尚作麼生措手。爾諸人到諸方作麼生舉。山僧恁麼道。也是久日樺來唇。喝一喝。上堂。古者道。我若一向舉揚宗教。法堂裏草深一丈。不可為闍黎銷却僧堂門去也。雖然如是。也是烏龜陸地弄塵行。上堂。語漸也返常合道。論頓也不留朕迹。直饒論其頓返其常。也是抑而為之。問牛頭未見四祖時為甚麼百鳥銜花獻。師曰。果熟猿兼重。曰見後為甚麼不銜花。師曰。林疎鳥不過。問七星光彩天將曉。不犯皇風試道看。師曰。將軍馬蹄紅。曰錯師便打。僧禮拜。展坐具始收。師曰。一展一收法法皆周。擬欲更問著甚來由。遂問。會麼。僧曰。不會。師便打。

Chan Master Quanju of Fahua Cloister in Shuzhou went to Upādhyāya Gong'an Yuan. Yuan asked, "What is a monastery?" The Master said, "A lone tiger hidden deep in the mountains; a throng of snakes exposed in shallow grass." Yuan asked, "What is a person inside the monastery?" The Master said, "A green pine cannot cover [him]; how could yellow leaves conceal [him]?" Yuan said, "What are you saying?" The Master said, "In youth, having savored every moon at the edge of the sky; in senescence, struggling with the Fusang tree where the sun never sinks." Yuan said, "When a phrase or two opens the clouds to reveal the moon, how is it?" The Master said, "It illuminates through and shatters buddhas and patriarchs." He went to Upādhyāya Dayu Zhi. Dayu asked, "What was the ancient's intention upon seeing peach blossoms?" The Master said, "The crooked does not conceal the straight." Dayu said, "Let that one be; what about this one?" The Master said, "Gold picked up on the main street—how can the neighbors on all sides know of it?" Dayu said, "Does the elder monk still know?" The Master said, "Meeting a swordsman on the road, one must present a sword; to one who is not a poet, do not offer poetry." Dayu said, "An adept poet!" The Master said, "A single red thread pulled by two people." Dayu said, "Xuansha said: 'Thoroughly correct, most thoroughly correct—I dare guarantee that the venerable brother has not yet penetrated through.' What about that?" The Master said, "When the sea dries up, one finally sees the bottom; when a person dies, their mind remains unknown." Dayu said, "Indeed so." The Master said, "The pavilion soars to touch the clouds; the mountain peaks pile up in layers of emerald." He went to Upādhyāya Langye Jue. Langye asked, "Where have you recently left?" The Master said, "The two Zhe circuits." Langye said, "Did you come by boat or by land?" The Master said, "By boat." Langye said, "Where is the boat?" The Master said, "At the foot of the steps." Langye said, "Without traveling the road, say a phrase: how is it?" The Master struck him once with his sitting cloth and said, "Fabricating elders are as plentiful as hemp seeds and millet grains!" Flicking his sleeves, he walked out. Langye asked his attendant, "Who is this person?" The attendant said, "Elder Ju." Langye said, "Could it be Senior Dharma Uncle Ju? My late master instructed me to seek him out and see him." He then went down, stepped forward, and asked, "Elder monk, could you be Senior Dharma Uncle Ju? Do not blame me for offending you just now." The Master gave a shout. He then asked, "When did the elder arrive at Fenyang?" Langye said, "At such-and-such time." The Master said, "I had long heard your name in Zhejiang, yet your view turns out to be merely like this. How did your name come to spread throughout the realm?" Langye then bowed and said, "This one's fault." The Master went to the Western Hermitage in Hangzhou. The hermitage master had once seen Mingzhao. The master cited a verse saying: 'Upon the topmost Western Peak, / Who dares face the precipitous dynamic? / Transcending beyond both commoner and sage, / At a glance arise two layers of radiance.' The Master asked, "What are the two layers of radiance?" The hermitage master said, "The moon rises from the east; the sun sets into the west." The Master asked, "How was it before the hermitage master saw Mingzhao?" The hermitage master said, "A full cup of oil is hard to exhaust." The Master asked, "How about after seeing him?" The hermitage master said, "Many wicks easily run dry." After becoming abbot, a monk asked, "What is taking away the person but not taking away the environment?" The Master said, "White chrysanthemums newly open in the warmth of the Double Ninth; the centenarian noble youth never meets spring." The monk asked, "What is taking away the environment but not taking away the person?" The Master said, "From the great earth, news is cut off; carefree, he alone relies on reality." The monk asked, "What is taking away both person and environment?" The Master said, "Weeds grow wild as people pale; commoner and sage are both completely emptied." The monk asked, "What is taking away neither person nor environment?" The Master said, "Clear breeze and bright moon; they smile in intimacy at each other from the wilds." Ascending the hall, [the Master said,] "Śākya did not appear in the world; Bodhidharma did not come from the west. The Buddha Dharma pervades the whole world; in discussing the mystery, mouths do not open." Ascending the hall, [the Master said,] "Bells toll, drums sound, magpies chatter, and crows caw—for all of you, prajñā has been preached and nirvāṇa has been expounded. Can you all genuinely believe it? Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva displays great supernatural powers right before all of you. If you cannot believe it, he goes off to other lands to relieve suffering and benefit living beings." Ascending the hall, [the Master said,] "Opening the mouth becomes adding words; not opening the mouth becomes surplus words." He then said, "The edict of the Iron-Wheel-Turning Emperor; the house style of an inn is different." Ascending the hall, [the Master said,] "The mouths of the buddhas of the three periods are hung upon the wall. Where can the old upādhyāyas under heaven lay their hands? When all of you go to the various quarters, how will you bring this up? That this mountain monk speaks like this is also having birch-waxed lips for a long time." He gave a shout. Ascending the hall, [the Master said,] "An ancient said: 'If I were to promote the ancestral lineage without exception, the grass in the Dharma hall would grow ten feet deep.' One cannot seal off the doors of the Sangha hall on account of the ācāryas! Even though this is so, it is also a turtle stirring up dust as it walks on dry land." Ascending the hall, [the Master said,] "Speaking of the gradual, it reverses to the ordinary and accords with the Way. Discussing the sudden, it leaves not a trace. Even if one discusses its suddenness and reverses to its ordinariness, this too is done by forced constraint." A monk asked, "Before Niutou saw the Fourth Patriarch, why did hundreds of birds carry flowers in their beaks to offer him?" The Master said, "When fruit is ripe, the gibbon feels the weight." The monk asked, "Why did they not carry flowers after he saw him?" The Master said, "When the forest is sparse, birds do not pass through." A monk asked, "The radiance of the Seven Stars shines as dawn approaches; without violating the imperial wind, try to speak of it." The Master said, "The general's horse hooves are red." The monk said, "Wrong!" The Master immediately struck him. The monk bowed, spread out his sitting cloth, and then took it back. The Master said, "One spread and one retrieval—every single dharma is complete. Intending to ask further, what reason could there be?" He then asked, "Do you understand?" The monk said, "I do not understand." The Master immediately struck him.