上堂
Ascending the Hall
上堂：「黃閣簾垂，誰傳家信？紫羅帳合，暗撒真珠。正恁麼時，視聽有所不到，言詮有所不及，如何通得箇消息去？夢回夜色依俙曉，笑指家風爛熳春。」
A teaching: "The yellow pavilion's curtain is drawn—who will deliver the family message? The purple silk canopy is closed, scattering pearls in secret. In such a moment, there are things the eyes and ears cannot reach, words cannot express. So how can one gain news from this place? When you wake from a dream, the night's shadows still linger toward dawn; smiling, you see the family tradition in spring's full bloom."
上堂，舉：「《參同契》云：『回互不回互。』僧問雲門：『如何是回互？』門指板頭云：『不可喚作板頭。』僧云：『如何是不回互？』門云：『者箇是板頭。』」師云：「石頭舌頭無骨，雲門眼裏有筋，千古之下聲光赫奕。如今要把手共行，直須恁麼始解不恁麼，然後沒交涉。還相委悉麼？少年曾決龍蛇陣，潦倒還聽稚子歌。」
Master ascended the hall and said:
"The *Cantongqi* states: 'Interreflecting and non-interreflecting.' A monk once asked Yunmen, 'What is interreflecting?' Yunmen pointed to the teaching stick and said, 'You cannot call it a teaching stick.' The monk then asked, 'What is non-interreflecting?' Yunmen said, 'This is a teaching stick.'"
The Master continued: "Shitou's tongue has no bones; Yunmen's eyes have sinews. For thousands of years, their light and sound have blazed bright. Now, if you want to walk hand in hand with them, you must first be like this to understand not being like this—and then have nothing to do with it. Do you understand? In youth, I once broke formations of dragons and snakes; in decline, I now listen to children's songs."
上堂：「心不能緣，口不能議，直饒退步荷擔，切忌當頭觸諱。風月寒清古渡頭，夜船撥轉琉璃地。」
The Master addressed the assembly: "The mind cannot grasp it, the mouth cannot describe it. Even if you step back and shoulder the burden, beware of confronting it head-on. In the cold clarity of wind and moonlight at the ancient ferry, the night boat turns, gliding over a ground of crystal."
上堂，舉：「白水垂語云：『眼裏著沙不得，耳裏著水不得。』僧便問：『如何是眼裏著沙不得？』水云：『應真無比。』僧云：『如何是耳裏著水不得？』水云：『白淨無垢。』」師云：「白水老人可謂大而無外、小而無內，具足千變萬化，秖箇赤手空身；不受一滴塵，直是滿眼滿耳。還見麼？立足無閑地，知心有幾人？」
The Master entered the hall and cited: “Baishui once said, ‘One cannot place sand in the eye, nor can one place water in the ear.’ A monk asked, ‘What does it mean that one cannot place sand in the eye?’ Baishui replied, ‘The truth has no equal.’ The monk asked, ‘What does it mean that one cannot place water in the ear?’ Baishui replied, ‘Pure and spotless.’” The Master said: “Old Man Baishui can be described as vast without an outside and subtle without an inside, fully endowed with a thousand transformations and ten thousand changes—yet he is simply empty-handed and naked-bodied. He does not accept even a single speck of dust, and yet his eyes and ears are fully filled. Do you see it? There is no idle place to stand; how many people truly understand the mind?”
上堂，舉：「金峰示眾云：『事存函蓋合，理應箭鋒拄。若人道得，金峰分半院與他住。』時有僧出禮拜，峰云：『休！休！相見易得好，共住難為人。』」師云：「重賞之下，必有勇夫。者僧擬乎強取，金峰又卻不甘。還知蚌鷸相持，盡落漁人之手？若也辯得函蓋箭鋒，金峰一院兩手分付。」
The Master ascended the hall and recounted:
"Jinfeng addressed the assembly, saying: 'The matter is contained as a lid fits a box; the principle strikes sharply like an arrowhead to an arrow. If someone can express this, I will give him half my monastery to dwell in.' At that moment, a monk came forward and bowed. Jinfeng said: 'Stop! Stop! It's easy to get along when we first meet, but difficult to live together.'"
The Master then commented: "Under a generous reward, there will always be someone brave. That monk seemed ready to take it by force, but Jinfeng was unwilling. Don't you know that when the clam and the egret fight, the fisherman reaps the reward? If you can understand the 'lid and box,' the 'arrowhead and arrow,' then Jinfeng's entire monastery can be handed over to you with both hands."
上堂，舉：「僧問曹山：『子歸就父，為什麼父全不顧？』山云：『理合如斯。』僧云：『父子之恩何在？』山云：『始成父子之恩。』僧云：『如何是父子之恩？』山云：『刀斧斫不開。』」師云：「翡翠簾垂，絲綸未降，紫羅帳合，視聽難通。犯動毫頭，月昇夜戶，密移一步，鶴出銀籠。還知麼？脫身一色無遺影，不坐同風落大功。」
上堂：「今日是釋迦老子降誕之辰，長蘆不解說禪，與諸人畫箇樣子。祇如在摩耶胎時作麼生？」以拂子畫此⊙相，曰：「秖如以清淨水浴金色身時又作麼生？」復畫此[○@水]相，曰：「秖如周行七步目顧四方，指天指地成道說法，神通變化智慧辯才，四十九年三百餘會，說青道黃指東畫西，入般涅槃時又作麼生？」乃畫此⊕相，復曰：「若是具眼衲僧必也相許；其或未然，一一歷過始得。」
The master ascended the hall and said: "Today is the birthday of Lord Śākyamuni. Since Changlu does not know how to speak of Chan, I will draw a simple diagram for you all. What was it like when he was still in Queen Māyā’s womb?" With a whisk, he drew this ⊙ symbol. "And what was it like when pure water bathed his golden body?" He then drew this symbol. "What about when he took seven steps in each direction, looked around, pointed to heaven and earth, attained awakening, taught the Dharma, performed miraculous transformations, displayed wisdom and eloquence, for forty-nine years at over three hundred assemblies—saying 'blue' and 'yellow,' pointing east and west—and finally entered nirvāṇa?" Then he drew this ⊕ symbol.
He continued, "If you are a monk with the eye of insight, you will certainly agree. But if not, you must experience each of these one by one."
上堂，舉：「僧問雲門：『不起一念，還有過也無？』門云：『須彌山。』」師云：「不起一念，向道須彌，舌頭一臠肉，口唇兩片皮。雲門機用妙如許，不落是非知不知？」
上堂，舉：「風穴垂語云：『若立一塵，家國興盛；不立一塵，家國喪亡。』」師云：「還有同生同死底衲僧麼？復頌云：『幾許歡心幾許愁，好看野老兩眉頭，家邦平貼清如鏡，水瘦山空一樣秋。』」
The master entered the hall and raised a saying: "Fengxue once declared, 'If you set up a single speck of dust, the nation flourishes; if you do not set up a single speck of dust, the nation perishes.'"
The master said, "Is there a monk who shares the same life and death?" He then recited a verse:
"Some with joy, some with sorrow, Behold the old man's two knitted brows. When the homeland is peaceful and clear as a mirror, The waters thin, the mountains bare—one and the same autumn."
上堂，舉：「鏡清問靈雲：『混沌未分時如何？』雲云：『露柱懷胎。』清云：『分後如何？』雲云：『如片雲點太清。』清云：『秖如太清還受點也無？』雲不對。清云：『恁麼則含生不來也。』雲亦不對。清云：『直得純清絕點時如何？』雲云：『猶是真常流注。』清云：『如何是真常流注？』雲云：『如鏡常明。』清云：『向上更有事不？』雲云：『有。』清云：『如何是向上事？』雲曰：『打破鏡來，與子相見。』」師云：「分與未分，玉機夜動；點與不點，金梭暗拋。直是一色純清，未得十成安穩。且道打破鏡來向什麼處相見？還會麼？清秋老兔吞光後，湛水蒼龍蛻骨時。」
上堂，舉：「石鞏上堂，乃張弓架箭，三平擘開胸當之。鞏云：『一張弓、兩隻箭，秖射得半箇聖人。』」師云：「石鞏習氣不除，三平相席打令，卻云：『三十年，一張弓兩隻箭，秖射得半箇聖人。』豈不是以己方人？大都不入驚人浪，到了難尋稱意魚。」
上堂：「空劫有真宗，聲前問己躬，赤窮新活計，清白舊家風。的的三乘外，寥寥一印中，卻來行異類，萬派自朝東。」
上堂，舉：「雪峰住庵，二僧來拜。峰見，兩手托門，放身出云：『是什麼？』僧云：『是什麼？』峰低頭歸庵。僧到巖頭，頭問：『什麼處來？』僧云：『嶺南來。』頭云：『曾到雪峰麼？』僧云：『曾到。』頭云：『有何言句？』僧舉前話，頭云：『他道什麼？』僧云：『他無語，低頭歸庵。』頭云：『噫！我當初悔不向他道末後句，若向他道，天下人不奈雪老何。』僧至夏末，再舉前話請益，頭云：『何不早問？』僧云：『未敢容易。』頭云：『雪峰與我同條生，不與我同條死，要識末後句，只者是！』」師云：「切磋琢磨，變態淆訛，葛陂化龍之杖，陶家居蟄之梭，同條生兮有數，同條死兮無多。末後句，只者是，風舟載月浮秋水。」
上堂，舉：「僧問趙州：『學人乍入叢林，乞師指示！』州云：『喫粥了也未？』僧云：『喫粥了。』州云：『洗缽去。』」師云：「粥罷令教洗缽盂，豁然心地自相符，而今參飽叢林客，且道其問有悟無？」
上堂，舉：「僧問雲門：『如何是清淨法身？』門云：『花藥欄。』僧云：『便恁麼去時如何？』門云：『金毛獅子。』雪竇著語云：『太無端。』」師云：「賊來須打，客來須待。雲門、雪竇二俱作家，者裏莫有恁麼去者麼？切忌撞頭磕額。」
上堂，舉：「誌公云：『終日拈香擇火，不知身是道場。』」師云：「弄精魂漢有甚麼限？玄沙云：『終日拈香擇火，不知真個道場。』」師云：「奇怪！八十翁翁入場屋，不是小兒嬉。且道利害在甚麼處？有智無智，較三十里。」
上堂，舉：「藥山久不陞座，院主請為眾說法。眾纔集，山登座良久，便歸方丈。院主云：『和尚何不為眾說法？』山云：『經有經師，論有論師，爭怪得老僧？』」師云：「家法簡嚴，非二非三，月來明湛水，雲退露寒嵒。真機自得，妙處誰參？不是文殊白槌後，也應千古屈瞿曇。」
上堂，僧問：「如何是向去底人？」師曰：「白雲投壑盡，青嶂倚空高。」曰：「如何是卻來底人？」師曰：「滿頭白髮離嵒谷，半夜穿雲入市廛。」曰：「如何是不來不去底人？」師曰：「石女喚回三界夢，木人坐斷六門機。」乃曰：「句裏明宗則易，宗中辯的則難。」良久曰：「還會麼？凍雞未報家林曉，隱隱行人過雪山。」
上堂，舉：「僧問魯祖：『如何是不言言？』祖云：『汝口在甚麼處？』僧云：『無口。』祖云：『將什麼喫飯？』僧無對。」師云：「者僧只解握死蛇頭，不能捋猛虎鬚。當時待他問：『你口在什麼處？』便與一喝，拂袖便行。直饒魯祖全機，往往做手腳不及。」
上堂，舉：「仰山夢往彌勒內院居第二座，有一尊者白椎云：『今日當第二座說法。』仰乃起白椎云：『摩訶衍法，離四句、絕百非。諦聽諦聽！』次日，舉似溈山，溈云：『子已登聖位。』」師云：「玉女依稀夜動機，錦絲歷歷吐梭臍，水天湛碧全功墮，雪月寒清一色迷。諸禪德！全功負墮，一色猶迷，作麼生體悉得相應去？權挂垢衣云是佛，卻披珍御復名誰？」
上堂：「諸禪德！吞盡三世佛底人，為甚麼開口不得？照破四天下底人，為甚麼合眼不得？許多病痛與你一時拈卻了也，且作麼生得十成通暢去？還會麼？擘開華嶽連天色，放出黃河到海聲。」
上堂，舉：「雲門因僧問：『秋初夏末，前程若有人問，作麼生秖對？』門云：『大眾退後。』僧云：『未審過在甚麼處？』門云：『還我九十日飯錢來。』」師云：「大眾退後，衲僧去就，豈用機關，那容體究？蓑翁老熟慣風波，櫓橈不施船放淄。」
上堂，舉：「僧問曹山：『佛未出世時如何？』山云：『曹山不如。』僧云：『出世後如何？』山云：『不如曹山。』」師云：「佛與曹山主賓互換，出世不出世各具一隻眼，未有長行而不住，長住而不行。還會麼？幽洞豈拘關鎖意？縱橫不涉兩頭機。」
上堂，舉：「雲門示眾云：『直得觸目無滯，達得名身、句身一切法空，山河大地是名，身亦不可得，喚作三昧性海俱備，猶是無風匝匝之波，直得亡知於覺，覺即佛性矣。喚作無事人，更須知有向上一竅在。』」師云：「賓主不諧，二俱有過，各與二十棒。秖如向上一竅又作麼生？犀因玩月紋生角，象被雷驚花入牙。」
上堂，舉：「石霜因僧自洞山來，霜問：『洞山和尚有何言句？』僧云：『解夏上堂云：「秋初夏末，兄弟們或東去西去，直須向萬里無寸草處去。」良久云：「祇如萬里無寸草處作麼去？」』霜曰：『有人下語否？』僧曰：『無。』霜曰：『何不道：出門便是草？』僧舉似洞山，山曰：『瀏陽有古佛耶！』」師曰：「出門是草，涉芊芊莽莽之間；葉落知秋，墮黯黯青青之處。到者裏，須體取機雖轉紐印未成文處始得。」良久云：「水明老蚌懷胎後，雲重蒼龍退骨時。」
上堂，舉：「僧問雲門：『如何是塵塵三昧？』門云：『缽裏飯，桶裏水。』」師云：「塵塵三昧，彼彼不外，千峰向嶽，百川赴海。更無一法不如來，只箇堂堂觀自在。」
上堂，舉：「乾峰示眾云：『舉一不得舉二，放過一著落在第二。』雲門出眾曰：『昨日有人從天台來，卻往徑山去。』峰曰：『來日不得普請。』」師云：「坐斷十方，千差路絕；放開一線，萬派朝宗。二尊宿開拓家風，方見衲僧去就。還端的麼？太平天子寰中旨，汗血將軍塞外心。」
上堂，舉：「首山念禪師因僧問：『如何是佛？』山云：『新婦騎驢阿家牽。』」師云：「新婦騎驢阿家牽，體段風流得自然，堪笑效顰鄰舍女，向人添醜不成妍。」
上堂，舉：「香林遠禪師因僧問：『如何是衲衣下事？』林云：『臘月火燒山。』」師云：「老大叢林快說禪，不將禪挂口皮邊，谷深山遠空無像，何處人呼應不圓？」
上堂，舉：「僧到夾山，山問：『近離甚處？』曰：『洞山。』山曰：『洞山有何言句？』曰：『和尚道：我有三路接人。』夾山曰：『有何三路？』曰：『鳥道、玄路、展手。』山曰：『實有此三路耶？』曰：『是。』山曰：『鬼持千里鈔，林下道人悲。』後浮山遠著語云：『不因黃葉落，爭知是一秋？』」師云：「欲明三的旨，莫向二邊求。」復云：「洪波浩渺接盲龜，鳥道無私絕有為，開口見心玄路香，扇兒遮面露蛾眉。」
上堂：「一點環中照極微，智無功處卻存知，緣思淨盡無餘事，半夜星河斗柄垂。」
上堂，舉：「盤山垂語云：『若言即心即佛，今時未入玄微；若言非心非佛，亦是指蹤極則。』」師云：「有錢不解使，解使卻無錢。且道作麼生得十成去？娶他年少婦，須是白頭兒。」