續傳燈錄 7.26

7.26

福州白鹿山顯端禪師本州周氏子。僧問。如何是道。師曰。九州百粵。曰如何是道中人。師曰。乘肥衣錦。問如何。是大善知識。師曰。持刀按劍。曰為甚麼如此。師曰。禮防君子。問如何是異類。師曰。鴉巢生鳳。上堂。摩騰入漢肉上剜瘡。僧會來吳眼中添屑。達磨九年面壁鬼魅之由。二祖立雪求心翻成不肖。汝等諸人到這裏如何吐露。若也道得海上橫行。若道不得林間獨臥。以拄杖擊禪床一下。問如何是無相佛。師曰。灘頭石師子。曰意旨如何。師曰。有心江上住不怕浪淘沙。問凝然湛寂時如何。師曰。不是闍黎安身立命處。曰如何是學人安身立命處。師曰。雲有出山勢水無投㵎聲。問如何是教意。師曰。楞伽會上。曰如何是祖意。師曰。熊耳山前。曰教意祖。意相去幾何師曰寒松。連翠。竹秋水對紅蓮。

Chan Master Xianduan of Mount Bailu in Fuzhou was a son of the Zhou family of that prefecture. A monk asked, "What is the Way?" The Master said, "The Nine Provinces and the Hundred Yue." [The monk] said, "What is a person of the Way?" The Master said, "Riding fat [horses] and clothed in brocade." [A monk] asked, "What is a great kalyāṇamitra?" The Master said, "Holding a knife and pressing a sword." [The monk] said, "Why is it so?" The Master said, "Etiquette guards against gentlemen." [A monk] asked, "What is an alien species?" The Master said, "A raven's nest gives birth to a phoenix." Ascending the hall, [the Master said,] "Moteng entering the Han was gouging out a wound on healthy flesh; Senghui coming to Wu was adding grit to the eye. Bodhidharma's nine years of wall-gazing was the origin of ghosts and demons; the Second Patriarch standing in the snow seeking mind turned out to be an unfilial son instead. When all of you reach here, how will you disclose it? If you can speak, you traverse freely upon the seas; if you cannot speak, you lie alone among the woods." He struck the Chan bed once with his staff. [A monk] asked, "What is the formless Buddha?" The Master said, "The stone lion on the beach." [The monk] said, "What is the meaning of that?" The Master said, "Having the mind to dwell upon the river, it fears not the waves churning the sand." [A monk] asked, "How is it when one is motionless, clear, and serene?" The Master said, "That is not the place where you, ācārya, establish your life." [The monk] said, "What is the place where this student establishes his life?" The Master said, "Clouds have the momentum to leave the mountains; water has no sound of plunging into ravines." [A monk] asked, "What is the meaning of the doctrinal teachings?" The Master said, "At the Laṅkā assembly." [The monk] said, "What is the meaning of the Patriarchs?" The Master said, "Before Mount Xiong'er." [The monk] said, "How far apart are the meaning of the teachings and the meaning of the Patriarchs?" The Master said, "Cold pines join with emerald bamboo; autumn waters face red lotuses."