先覺宗乘卷二
The Foremost Awakening of the Chan Lineage, Volume Two
徑山語風老人 圓信 較定
Venerable Yufeng of Jingshan, Yuanxin, revised and finalized
無地地主人 郭凝之 彚編
Compiled by Guo Ningzhi, a local notable of Wudi
唐甘贄行者(嗣法南泉順)
Tang Dynasty Practitioner Gan Zhi (Dharma heir of Nanquan Yuan)
池州甘贄行者。一日入南泉設齋。黃檗為首座。行者請施財。黃檗曰。財法二施。等無差別。甘曰。恁麼道。爭消得某甲䞋。便將出去。須臾復入曰。請施財。黃檗曰。財法二施。等無差別。甘乃行䞋。(翠巖真云。甘贄行者。𭶑兒落節。黃檗施財。何曾夢見。妙喜舉翠巖語云。一等是隨邪逐惡。這雲居羅漢。却較些子 楚石琦云。恁麼恁麼。扶起甘贄。推倒黃檗。不恁麼。不恁麼。扶起黃檗。推倒甘贄。只如恁麼中不恁麼。不恁麼中却恁麼。又作麼生。師子咬人。韓獹逐塊)又一日入寺設粥。仍請南泉念誦。南泉乃白椎曰。請大眾。為貍奴白牯。念摩訶般若波羅蜜。甘拂袖便出。南泉粥後問典座。行者在甚處。典座曰。當時便去也。南泉便打破鍋子。(妙喜云。心不負人。面無慙色)甘常接待往來。有僧問曰。行者接待不易。甘曰。譬如餧驢餧馬。僧休去。有住庵僧。緣化什物。甘曰。有一問。若道得即施。乃書心字。問是甚麼字。曰心字。又問妻。甚麼字。妻曰心字。甘曰。某甲山妻。亦合住庵。其僧無語。甘亦無施。又問一僧。甚麼處來。曰溈山來。甘曰。曾有僧問溈山。如何是西來意。溈山舉起拂子。上座作麼生會溈山意。曰借事明心。附物顯理。甘曰。且歸溈山去好。(保福聞之。乃仰手覆手)藥山令供養主抄化甘行者。問甚處來。曰藥山來。甘曰。來作麼。曰教化。甘曰。將得藥來麼。曰行者有甚麼病。甘便捨銀兩鋌。意山中有人。此物却回。無人即休。主便歸納疏。藥山問曰。子歸何速。主曰。問佛法相當。得銀兩鋌。藥山令舉其語。主舉已。藥山曰。速送還他。子著賊了也。主便送還。甘曰。繇來有人。遂添銀施之(同安顯云。早知行者恁麼問。終不道藥山來)。
The practitioner Gan Zhi of Chizhou. One day he went to Nanquan's place to hold a vegetarian feast. Huangbo was the head seat. The practitioner said, "Please distribute the wealth." Huangbo said, "The two kinds of giving—material and Dharma—are equal, without distinction." Gan said, "Spoken that way, how can you deserve my offering?" and immediately started to leave. After a moment he came back in and said, "Please distribute the wealth." Huangbo said, "The two kinds of giving—material and Dharma—are equal, without distinction." Gan then distributed the offering.
(Cuiyan Zhen said: "The practitioner Gan Zhi—a clever fellow who lost his footing. Huangbo distributing wealth—when did he ever dream of it?" Miaoxi cited Cuiyan's words and said: "Both alike are following the crooked and chasing the evil. This Yunju Arhat, however, is a bit better." Chushi Qi said: "Thus, thus—raise up Gan Zhi, push down Huangbo. Not thus, not thus—raise up Huangbo, push down Gan Zhi. But what about within 'thus' there being 'not thus,' and within 'not thus' there being 'thus'? What then? A lion bites the person; Han Lu chases the clod.")
On another day he went to the temple to hold a rice gruel meal, and asked Nanquan to do the chanting. Nanquan then struck the wooden clapper and said, "Please, assembly, for the sake of the cat and the white ox, recite the Mahāprajñāpāramitā." Gan shook out his sleeves and left. After the gruel, Nanquan asked the monastic manager, "Where is the practitioner?" The manager said, "He left right then." Nanquan then smashed the pot.
(Miaoxi said: "His heart does not betray others; his face shows no shame.")
Gan always received and entertained those who came and went. A monk asked, "Practitioner, receiving guests is not easy." Gan said, "It is like feeding donkeys and feeding horses." The monk gave up and left. There was a monk living in a hut who was collecting donations of goods. Gan said, "I have a question. If you can answer, I will give." Then he wrote the character for "heart" and asked, "What character is this?" "The character 'heart.'" He then asked his wife, "What character?" His wife said, "The character 'heart.'" Gan said, "My own wife could also live in a hut." The monk had no reply, and Gan gave nothing. He also asked another monk, "Where do you come from?" "I come from Weishan." Gan said, "A monk once asked Weishan, 'What is the meaning of the Ancestor's coming from the West?' Weishan raised his whisk. Elder, how do you understand Weishan's meaning?" "Borrowing the thing to illumine the mind; attaching to the object to reveal the principle." Gan said, "You had best go back to Weishan."
(Baofu heard of this and raised his hand, then turned it over.)
Yaoshan sent the offering-master to collect donations from the practitioner Gan. He asked, "Where do you come from?" "I come from Yaoshan." Gan said, "What did you come for?" "To teach and convert." Gan said, "Did you bring the medicine?" "What illness does the practitioner have?" Gan then gave two ingots of silver, thinking, "If there is someone in the mountains, this will be returned; if no one, let it be." The master returned and submitted the donation list. Yaoshan asked, "Why have you returned so quickly?" The master said, "A question about the Dharma matched; I obtained two ingots of silver." Yaoshan had him recount the words. After the master recounted them, Yaoshan said, "Take it back to him quickly. You have been robbed." The master took it back. Gan said, "So there really is someone there," and added more silver to the gift.
(Tong'an Xian said: "Had I known the practitioner would ask that, I would never have said 'I come from Yaoshan.'")