續傳燈錄 33.56

33.56

溫州光孝己菴深禪師。本郡人也。上堂曰。龍生龍鳳生鳳。老鼠養兒沿屋棟。達磨大師不會禪。歷魏游梁乾打鬨。上堂。一九二九相逢不出手。三九二十七。籬頭吹觱栗。翻憶小釋迦。雙手抱屈膝。知不知實不實。摩訶般若波羅蜜。上堂。維摩默然普賢廣說。歷代聖人互呈醜拙。君不見。落花三月子規啼。一聲聲是一點血。上堂。風蕭蕭葉飄飄。雲片片水茫茫。江干獨立向誰說。天外飛鴻三兩行。

Chan Master Ji'an Shen of Guangxiao in Wenzhou was a native of this commandery. He ascended the hall and said: “A dragon gives birth to a dragon, a phoenix gives birth to a phoenix; a mouse raises children that scurry along the roof beams. Great Master Bodhidharma did not understand Chan; traveling through Wei and roaming Liang, he was just making a dry commotion.”

He ascended the hall: “In the first nine and second nine, when meeting one does not take one's hands out. Three nines are twenty-seven; at the hedge they blow the reed pipe. Turning back, I recall Little Śākya, holding his bent knees with both hands. Knowing or not knowing? Real or not real? Mahāprajñāpāramitā!”

He ascended the hall: “Vimalakīrti kept silent, Samantabhadra spoke extensively; the sages of past generations mutually displayed their ugliness and clumsiness. Have you not seen: as flowers fall in the third month and the cuckoo cries, every single call is a drop of blood?”

He ascended the hall: “The wind soughs, the leaves flutter; the clouds drift in flakes, the water stretches boundless. Standing alone on the riverbank, to whom can I speak? Beyond the sky fly two or three lines of wild geese.”