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Remarkable and extraordinary from birth, at the age of seventeen he had his hair shaved at Dongchan. He first attached himself to Chan Master Sui of Shuinan to taste the flavor of the Dharma. He then traveled extensively throughout the Jianghu region, engaging in dynamic exchanges with various elders, in all of which he found accord. Reaching Yunju, he paid homage to Chan Master Yuanwu. At the first sight of him, Yuanwu spurred him on vigorously. When he entered Shu, he was directed to see Zhangjiao. When Jiao moved to Huqiu, the Master accompanied him as his attendant. In less than half a year, he suddenly understood the Great Matter. He left to visit C'an, where he shared the seat at Lianyun, and opened the Dharma hall at Miaoyan. Later he was transferred to various grand monasteries. When he resided at Guizong, Dahui was in Meiyang. A monk conveyed to Dahui the phrases of instruction the Master had given. Seeing them, Dahui praised them to the utmost and later sent him a verse saying: 'Sitting atop the foremost peak of the golden wheel, / A thousand goblins and a hundred specters all conceal their traces. / In recent years true news has reached us once again, / Announcing that Yangqi's authentic line flows freely on.' Such was the high regard in which he was held. Ascending the hall, he said: 'Gazing at the wall for nine years ruined the sons and grandsons of the eastern land. Returning west with a single shoe made a fool of the yellow-faced fellow.' Drawing a line with his staff, he said: 'A stone ox lies across the ancient road; one horse gives birth to three yin.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Dezhang, the old blind shaved-pate, never had any flavor. Grasping the mouth, he lost the nose. At the second beat of the third watch he sang the songs of Ba, pointlessly startling Brahma from his sleep.' Giving a shout, he said: 'I walk through the wild grasses; you enter a deep village again.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Do all of you thoroughly see through Linji's intention in receiving blows of the stick three times from Huangbo? Even if you bite through it with a single snap, you are still not a great hero. The mouths of the Buddhas of the three periods hang on the wall; on what do the old upādhyāyas of the world eat their rice?' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Before the fifteenth day, the water rises and the boat goes high; after the fifteenth day, there is much mud and the Buddha is big. Right on the fifteenth day, giving the carp of the Eastern Sea a blow of the stick causes rain to pour down like overturned basins. It brings all sentient beings in the three-thousand great thousand worlds to complete joy, saying: "Striking this blow of the stick certainly accords with the time and season!" Without realizing it, Bao'en's entire body leaped with joy, whereupon he composed a poem and presented it to the assembly: A dragonfly is indeed a fine dragonfly; / Flying here and flying there, it never halts. / Caught by me, both its wings plucked off, / It looks just like a big iron nail.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'If we discuss this as a single phrase, who cannot eat congee? If we do not discuss it as a single phrase, the maggots in the cesspool will laugh the ācārya to death.' Raising his staff, he said: 'This staff has committed a heaven-filling offense and is banished to the Dual Iron Enclosing Mountains. Tell me, is there any fault on the part of Jianfu?' Striking the staff, he said: 'A moment too late!' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Light does not see darkness; darkness does not see light. Forgetting both light and darkness, one is no different from a common fellow. The jackal's howl is the lion's roar; the lion's roar is the jackal's howl. The stinking monkey in a hamlet of three houses increases in price tenfold; the bright moon pearl beneath the black dragon's chin is not worth a single coin. If taken as a patch-robed monk's clue, where does it come from? Thirty years hence, switching hands to beat your chest will still not be the end of your suffering.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Beside the rice basket, inside the lacquer tub: if you spit at each other, I allow you to throw water; if you scold each other, I allow you to answer back. The Yellow River clears once every three thousand years; the flat peach blossoms once every five hundred years. Hālenaya clenches his teeth; the red-crowned king laughs uproariously. Guizong had a gong'an from fifty years ago; today I present it to you all. Tell me, what gong'an is it? Bailiff Wang lost his warrant.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Eating congee and eating rice, one unknowingly bites through the tongue, and blood splatters against the Brahma heaven, overflowing copiously below the four quarters. The Jade Emperor dispatches an order to arrest the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea and examine him upon the peak of the Golden Wheel. In an instant, you all are summoned to bear witness! Please provide a truthful testimony, each of you; by all means avoid evasion. If it is not true, you will forfeit your lives.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Five hundred wrestlers lift the stone up; / Walking with hands released atop a cliff of ten thousand fathoms. / The worlds of the ten directions are a single ball of iron; / White hairs sprout on the back of empty space. / Even if you toss off the grease-stained hat and strip away the foul-smelling robe, before Bao'en's gate it is just the right time to take a beating. Why? Rising at midnight to sit with knees bent, / The Mao star appears before the patch-robed monk.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'The Buddhas of the three periods have no sinews in their eyes; the six generations of patriarchs have no blood beneath their skins. Clearly clenching their teeth, they leap about, unable to get out of the other's circle. Why did Nanquan cut the cat in two?' Ascending the hall, he said: 'Practitioners of Chan must strictly avoid misapplying their minds. Awakening and clearly seeing the nature is misapplying the mind. Becoming a Buddha and making oneself a patriarch is misapplying the mind. Reading the scriptures and expounding the teachings is misapplying the mind. Walking, standing, sitting, and lying down are misapplying the mind. Eating congee and eating rice are misapplying the mind. Excreting feces and passing urine are misapplying the mind. Every movement and rest, every coming and going, are misapplying the mind. There is yet another place of misapplying the mind that Guizong does not dare explain to you. Why? Once a single character enters the magistrate's gate, nine teams of oxen cannot haul it out.' Ascending the hall, he said: 'When the skilled craftsman has not emerged, jade and stone are indistinguishable; when there is no expert smelter, gold and sand are mixed together. Even if one is awakened by oneself without a teacher, before Tiantong's gate it is just the right time to be struck three thousand times in the morning and eight hundred times in the evening.' Suddenly raising his staff, he said: 'Call it a staff, and jade and stone are indistinguishable; do not call it a staff, and gold and sand are mixed together. If among you there is one half-person skilled at discerning the reason, I guarantee he will step smoothly into the cinnabar skies. If not yet so—' Striking the staff, he said: 'Quickly, fix your eyes and look!' A monk asked: 'An old woman asked Yantou: "I do not ask about handling the oars or swinging the rudder; tell me, where did the son in this old woman's arms come from?" Yantou struck the gunwale three times. What was his meaning?' The Master said: 'A scorched brick strikes and freezes right down to the bottom.' The monk said: 'If someone had asked the upādhyāya at that time, how would you have replied to her?' The Master said: 'Strike her dead with a single blow of the stick.' The monk said: 'This old upādhyāya is much like buying a hat to fit the head.' The Master said: 'Where did you see Yantou?' The monk said: 'Zha!' The Master said: 'Fabricating Chan monk!' The monk said: 'The old woman gave birth to seven children; six did not meet someone who understood them, and this single one is of no use either. What about throwing it into the water?' The Master said: 'Show off less.' The monk said: 'At that time Yantou unconsciously stuck out his tongue. What was the meaning?' The Master said: 'When joyful, we rejoice together.' The monk said: 'A monk asked Yunmen: "What is the pure Dharmakāya?" Yunmen said: "The medicinal flower hedge." What is this meaning?' The Master said: 'Shensha glares with protruding eyes.' The monk asked: '"Just this" buries oneself; "just this is not" fails the former sages. Leaving aside these two paths, please, Master, speak of the place where mud is mixed with water.' The Master said: 'Jade chopsticks prop open the tiger's mouth.' The monk said: 'One word, like metal and stone, is weighty in discourse; the myriad affairs, like wild-goose feathers, are light when cast off.' The Master said: 'Better not deceive this old monk.' The monk asked: '"Everyone fears the sweltering heat, but I love the long summer days. / A fragrant breeze arrives from the south, / Bringing a light coolness to the palace halls." How is it at such a time?' The Master said: 'Reverse the weapons and shed the armor.' On the memorial anniversary of Huqiu, the Master offered incense and said: 'Throughout my life I had no good luck, stumbling into this unintelligent old upādhyāya; I exhausted all my tricks and could find no purchase. From then on, I put away my weapons and casually wore clothes and ate food. For twenty years I have sat on the curved-wood chair, hanging up a sheep's head to sell dog meat—who knows what proof there is? Even so, with the day of burning incense coming once a year, through a thousand ages it causes one's resentment to grow deeper.' In the abbot's room, the Master was skilled at tempering senior elders; hence the world referred to the residences of Dahui and the Master as the two nectar gates. He often admonished his disciples, saying: 'When patch-robed monks wear straw sandals to dwell as abbots, how is that any different from a viper clinging to its den?' On the thirteenth day of the sixth month in the first year of the Longxing era, he passed away peacefully. 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