舉百丈上堂。(伎倆已盡)大眾方集。(圖箇什麼)以拄杖一時打去。(因誰致得)復召云。大眾。(却好報讐)眾回首。(生銕面皮)丈云。是什麼。(果然不識)黃蘗上堂。(六月日頭到處熱)大眾方集。(趂慣豕隊)復召云。大眾。(大人得自在)眾回首。(家家觀世音)蘗云。月似彎弓。少雨多風。(休道山僧不道來)雪竇云。若是雪竇集眾。以拄杖打散便休。(更有收人在後頭)天童拈云。下媒求鴿。(終日覓不得)直鈎釣魚。(有時還自來)各有接物利生底手段。(離是善因。而招惡報)若是牢籠不住。呼喚不回底漢。又作麼生。(正落萬松圈裏)以拄杖擊香臺一下(幾乎放過)。

Master Baizhang ascended the platform. (His tricks exhausted) The assembly had just gathered. (What are they seeking?) With his staff, he swept them all away. (Who brought this about?) Then he called out: "Assembly!" (Just right for settling scores) The assembly turned their heads. (Iron-faced) Baizhang said: "What is it?" (Truly they do not recognize)

Master Huangbo ascended the platform. (The sun of the sixth month brings heat everywhere) The assembly had just gathered. (Chasing after the herd) Then he called out: "Assembly!" (The great one attains freedom) The assembly turned their heads. (Every household has Guanyin) Huangbo said: "The moon is like a curved bow; little rain, much wind." (Do not say this mountain monk has not spoken)

Master Xuedou said: "If it were Xuedou gathering the assembly, I would simply drive them away with my staff and be done." (Yet there is still someone to gather them afterward)

Master Tiantong raised the case and said: "Setting a trap to catch a dove—(All day long you seek but do not find) Fishing with a straight hook—(Sometimes it comes of itself) Each has their own means of connecting with others and benefiting beings. (Apart from good causes, yet inviting bad results) But what about those who cannot be trapped and will not turn back when called?" (Right into Wan Song's trap) He struck the incense stand once with his staff. (Almost let it slip by)

師云。睦州示眾道。我見百丈。不識好惡。大眾方集。以柱杖一時打去。復召云。大眾。眾回首。丈云。是甚麼。有甚共語處。不露鋒骨句。未語先分付。進步口喃喃。知君太罔措。溈山問仰山。忽有人問。一切眾生但有業識茫茫。無本可據。子作麼生驗。仰云。若有僧來即召云某甲。僧回首。乃云。是甚麼。待伊擬議。向道非唯業識茫茫。亦乃無本可據。溈云。善哉。大丞相舒王道。我得雪峰一句語。做宰相。這老漢常向人道。是甚麼。萬松道。疑則別參。黃蘗道。月似彎弓。少雨多風。南方人祈雨。以此占之。又云。月如仰瓦。不求自下。此歷日家上弦下弦。黃蘗舉此示眾。如外科取牙。不犯手勢。睦州敁斤邈兩道。猶較些子。谷隱聰云。前來甚是奇特。後來龍頭蛇尾。萬松道。沒量大尊宿。語脉裏轉却。天聖泰云。殺人須見血。萬松道。要且無活人劍。雪竇道。說甚猶較。直是未在。雖道不犯手勢。奈何骨血生離。雪竇趂散便休。也好折折柱杖。又道。或有箇無孔鐵鎚。為眾竭力。善能擔荷。祇園洗足跏趺坐。大地山河鐵打成。孤迥迥。圓陀陀。無棱縫。針劄不入。早是起模畫樣了也。又道。可以籠罩古今。乾坤把斷。又驀拈拄杖云。放過一著。萬松道。草本不勞拈出。天童拈云。下媒求鴿。直鈎釣魚。直鈎釣獰龍。曲鈎釣蝦蟆。雪竇覿面全提。猶較華亭百步。他道垂絲千尺。意在深潭。離鈎三寸。子何不道。萬松嘗舉雲峰悅參大愚芝。未放告香入室。且令化炭化米。復充堂司。引篾觸盆。忽然大悟。方見芝公為人處。天童道。各有接物利生底手段。我眼本正。因師故邪。淨眼撒沙。他還甘麼。玄沙道。牢籠不肯住。呼喚不回頭。古聖不安排。至今無處所。所以萬松道。海為龍世界。天是鶴家鄉。金剛圈子一任𨁝跳。天童柱杖擊香臺。聖僧髑髏百襍碎。珍重諸人。各請穩便。

The master said: Muzhou once addressed the assembly, saying: "I saw Baizhang, but he didn't know good from bad. Just as the great assembly had gathered, he drove them all away at once with his staff. Then he called out: 'Assembly!' When they turned their heads, Baizhang said: 'What is it? What is there to talk about?'"

A phrase that doesn't reveal its edge or bones, Issuing instructions before words are spoken. Advancing with mouth mumbling, I know you are utterly bewildered.

Guishan asked Yangshan: "Suppose someone asks: 'All sentient beings have only vast, boundless karmic consciousness, with no fundamental basis to rely on. How would you test this?'" Yangshan said: "If a monk comes, I immediately call out: 'So-and-so!' When the monk turns his head, I then say: 'What is it?' Just as he is about to deliberate, I tell him: 'Not only is karmic consciousness vast and boundless—there is also no fundamental basis to rely on.'" Guishan said: "Excellent!"

Prime Minister Shu of the great court said: "I attained a single phrase from Xuefeng, and became prime minister. This old fellow often says to people: 'What is it?'" Wansong said: "If you doubt, then go study elsewhere."

Huangbo said: "The moon is like a curved bow—little rain, much wind." (Southerners pray for rain, using this to divine.) He also said: "The moon is like an upturned tile—without seeking, it comes down by itself." (This refers to the calendar-makers' waxing and waning crescents.) Huangbo raised this to show the assembly—like a surgeon extracting a tooth without touching it with his hand. Muzhou's weighing of catty and tael still comes somewhat close.

Guyin Cong said: "The earlier part was truly extraordinary; the later part was a dragon's head but a snake's tail." Wansong said: "Great venerables of immeasurable stature—within the flow of words, they turn it around."

Tiansheng Tai said: "To kill a person, you must see blood." Wansong said: "Yet he lacks the sword that gives life."

Xuedou said: "What 'still comes close'? It simply isn't there. Though it's said 'without touching with the hand,' how can bone and blood be separated?" Xuedou took advantage of the dispersal and stopped—it would also be good to break his staff. He also said: "Or perhaps there is a hammer without a hole, exerting itself for the assembly, well able to shoulder the burden."

The Jeta Grove, washing feet and sitting cross-legged— Mountains, rivers, and the great earth forged of iron. Lonely and remote, perfectly round, Without edges or seams, a needle cannot enter. This is already drawing models and painting forms.

He also said: "It can encompass past and present, Seize and cut off heaven and earth." Then suddenly lifting his staff, he said: "Let one move pass." Wansong said: "No need to bring out the plants."

Tiantong raised it, saying: "Setting bait to seek a dove, A straight hook to fish. A straight hook catches fierce dragons, A curved hook catches frogs and toads." Xuedou presents it fully face-to-face— Still compared to Huating's hundred paces. He said: "A fishing line a thousand feet long, The intent is in the deep pool. Three inches from the hook— Why don't you speak?"

Wansong once cited Yunfeng Yue studying under Dayu Zhi. Before being allowed to offer incense and enter the room, he was made to tend the charcoal and rice, then served as hall monitor. Striking a bamboo basket against a basin, he suddenly had a great awakening, and only then saw how Master Zhi worked with people. Tiantong said: "Each has their own means of connecting with beings and benefiting life. My eye was originally correct; because of the teacher, it became distorted. Sprinkling sand in a clear eye—will he still accept it?"

Xuansha said: "A cage won't make it stay, A call won't make it turn its head. The ancient sages did not arrange things— To this day, there is no place to be."

Therefore Wansong said: "The sea is the dragon's world, The sky is the crane's homeland. The diamond circle— Leap and jump as you please."

Tiantong strikes the incense stand with his staff, The holy monk's skull shattered into fragments. Take care, everyone. Each of you, please be at ease.