續傳燈錄 32.12

32.12

慶元府育王佛照德光禪師。臨江軍彭氏子。志學之年依本郡東山光化寺吉禪師落髮。一日入室。吉問。不是心不是佛不是物是甚麼。師罔措。遂致疑通夕不寐。次日詣方丈請益。昨日蒙和尚垂問。既不是心又不是佛又不是物。畢竟是甚麼。望和尚慈悲指示。吉震威一喝曰。這沙彌更要我與爾下注脚在。拈棒劈脊打出。師於是有省。後謁月菴果應菴華百丈震。終不自肯。適大慧領育王。四海英材鱗集師亦與焉。大慧室中問師。喚作竹篦則觸。不喚作竹篦則背。不得下語不得無語。師擬對。慧便棒。師豁然大悟。從前所得瓦解氷消。初住台之光孝。僧問。浩浩塵中如何辨主。師曰。巾峯頂上塔心尖。上堂。臨濟三遭痛棒。大愚言下知歸。興化於大覺棒頭明得黃檗意旨。若作棒會入地獄如箭射。若不作棒會入地獄如箭射。眾中商量盡道。赤心片片恩大難酬。總是識情卜度未出陰界。且如臨濟悟去。是得黃檗力。是得大愚力。若也見得。許爾頂門眼正肘後符靈。其或未然。鴻福更為諸人通箇消息。丈夫氣宇衝牛斗。一踏鴻門兩扇開。上堂。七手八脚三頭兩面。耳聽不聞眼覷不見。苦樂逆順打成一片。且道是甚麼。路逢死蛇莫打殺。無底籃子盛將歸。上堂。聞聲悟道落二落三。見色明心錯七錯八。生機一路猶在半途。且道透金剛圈吞栗棘蓬底是甚麼人。披簑側立千峯外。引水澆蔬五老前。師住靈隱日○孝宗皇帝嘗○詔問道。留宿內觀堂奏對機緣。備于本錄。後示寂。塔全身於鄮峯東庵。

Chan Master Fozhao Deguang of Yuwang in Qingyuan Prefecture was a son of the Peng family of Linjiang Commandery. At the age of fifteen, he had his head shaved under Chan Master Ji of Guanghua Temple on East Mountain in his home commandery. One day he entered the abbot's room; Ji asked: "Not mind, not Buddha, not a thing—what is it?" The Master was at a loss; he was plunged into doubt and stayed awake all night. The next day he went to the abbot's quarters to request instruction: "Yesterday I received the Upādhyāya's question: since it is neither mind, nor Buddha, nor a thing, what ultimately is it? I pray the Upādhyāya will compassionately point it out." Ji unleashed an awe-inspiring shout and said: "This śrāmaṇera still wants me to provide an explanatory footnote for you!" Raising his stick, he struck him across the back and chased him out. At this, the Master had an awakening. Later, he visited Yue'an Guo, Ying'an Hua, and Baizhang Zhen, but in the end did not affirm himself. It happened that Dahui was presiding at Yuwang, and outstanding talents from the four seas gathered like fish scales; the Master was among them. Dahui asked the Master in the abbot's room: "If you call it a bamboo comb, you touch it; if you do not call it a bamboo comb, you turn away from it. You must not speak; you must not remain silent." The Master intended to answer; Dahui struck him with the stick. The Master had a sudden great awakening; what he had attained previously disintegrated like tiles and melted like ice. He first resided at Guangxiao in Taizhou. A monk asked: "In the bustling dust, how does one discern the host?" The Master said: "The spire of the pagoda atop Jin Peak." Ascending the hall: "Linji underwent three painful beatings, yet found his home under Dayu's words; Xinghua comprehended Huangbo's purport at the tip of Dajue's stick. If you understand it as the stick, you enter hell like an arrow shooting. If you do not understand it as the stick, you enter hell like an arrow shooting. Everyone in the assembly discusses it, all saying: 'Piece by piece of red heart, a great kindness hard to repay.' All of this is estimation by conscious sentiment, not yet having escaped the realm of the skandhas. Take Linji's awakening: did he obtain Huangbo's power, or Dayu's power? If you can see it, I acknowledge that the eye on your crown is correct and the talisman behind your elbow is efficacious. If not yet so, Hongfu will provide a message for everyone: a great man's spirit pierces the Ox and Dipper constellations; with a single kick, the double doors of Hongmen are flung open!" Ascending the hall: "Seven hands and eight feet, three heads and two faces. The ears listen but do not hear; the eyes look but do not see. Suffering and pleasure, adversity and conformity are forged into a single piece. Tell me, what is it? Meeting a dead snake on the road, do not beat it to death; put it in a bottomless basket and bring it home." Ascending the hall: "Hearing a sound and awakening to the Way falls into second and third place; seeing forms and clarifying the mind errs by seven and eight. The single path of dynamic functioning is still halfway along. Tell me, what kind of person pierces the iron circle and swallows the thorny chestnut burr? Wearing a straw raincoat, standing sideways beyond a thousand peaks; drawing water to irrigate vegetables before the Five Old Men." During the days the Master resided at Lingyin, Emperor Xiaozong once summoned him by decree to ask about the Way, retaining him overnight in the Hall of Inner Contemplation; the dialogues and interactions presented to the throne are fully recorded in his separate record. Later he showed demise. His whole body was stupaed at the East Hermitage of Mount Mao.