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title: "印心佛敏訥禪師語錄 · 住湟中印心禪院"
description: "印心佛敏讷禅师语录是清代禅宗典籍由寂纳禅师所述其弟子法栋等人记录法通等人编集依驹本印行禅师名敏讷印心为其号属临济宗一脉内容多为上堂法语小参机缘问答及偈颂等集中体现了其禅学思想与接引学人的风格该书是研究清代禅宗特别是临济宗在江南地区发展的重要文献对于了解当时禅门的修行实践与思想传承具有较高价值在佛教史上被视为记录禅师言行与禅法心要的可靠资料"
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### 住湟中印心禪院

山主柴崇基捐資重建此院，煥然一新。於戊午年正月望日，別駕張來禎、都司胡禎及本城居士等請師就當寺開堂。至法座前以杖指云：「挺然巍巍，平地懸懸，三乘魂戰，十地膽寒。且道是甚麼所在？」喝一喝便陞。拈香祝聖罷，次拈云：「此瓣香可以修身齊家，可以定國安邦，奉為現前請主在會檀越，伏願壽山聳峻，福址彌隆。」又拈云：「此瓣香覷著則眼枯，觸著則腦裂，昔年草堂第一句下承當，今日印心人天眾前拈出，此是第二回，爇向爐中供養本師耨雲大和尚，用酬法乳。」斂衣敷坐。旭止和尚臼椎畢，師云：「第一義諦已成滯貨，纔涉唇吻須防話墮，眾中還有不涉唇吻者麼？出來相見。」問：「法筵大展，爐韝重開，上堂一句即不問，未出方丈時如何？」師云：「不涉途程。」進云：「已出方丈時如何？」師云：「頭破腦裂。」進云：「恁麼則把斷要津，針鋒不露去也。」師云：「你即今在甚麼處？」僧喝，師云：「緊防噎殺。」問：「實際理地纖塵不立，佛法門中一屑難容，未審學人在什麼處？」師云：「腦後見腮。」進云：「大千籠不住，沙界絕遮攔，如何是函蓋乾坤句？」師云：「險。」進云：「千峰勢到嶽邊止，萬派聲歸海上消。」師云：「了。」乃拈拄杖云：「木上座一向以來黑漆桶裏住著，未敢輕示於人。」以杖置右手云：「今日出來指東話西，似向缽盂安柄也。雖然如是，且不得辜負拄杖子。何也？為伊頂門上有眼。」

> Mount owner Chai Chongji donated funds to rebuild this monastery, making it completely new. On the fifteenth day of the first month in the year Wuwu, Vice Magistrate Zhang Laizhen, Colonel Hu Zhen, and local laypeople invited the Master to give a Dharma talk at this temple. Approaching the Dharma seat, the Master pointed with his staff and said: "Towering and majestic, suspended over the flat ground. The Three Vehicles tremble in fear, the Ten Stages feel cold dread. What place is this?" He gave a shout and ascended the seat. After offering incense and praying for the emperor, he again held up incense and said: "This incense can cultivate the self and regulate the family, can stabilize the country and bring peace. I offer it to the donors and benefactors present here. May your life be as lofty as a mountain, may your blessings be vast and deep." He held up another stick of incense and said: "This incense will blind you if you look at it, will split your head if you touch it. In the past, I received it directly under the first line of the Caotang. Now before the assembly of enlightened minds, I bring it forth for the second time. I burn it in the censer as an offering to my teacher, the Venerable Nouvun, repaying the kindness of his Dharma milk." Gathering his robes, he took his seat. After Xuzhi Ven. struck the gavel, the Master said: "Even the highest truth has already become stale goods. The moment I speak, I risk falling into error. Is there anyone among you who can avoid speaking? Come forward and meet." A monk asked: "The Dharma feast is grandly spread, the bellows are lit anew. I won't ask about the first phrase from the seat, but what about before you left the abbot's quarters?" The Master said: "No need to travel the path." The monk pressed: "What about after leaving the abbot's quarters?" The Master said: "Head cracked, brains split." The monk said: "Then you block the vital pass, leaving no trace of the needle's tip." The Master said: "Where are you right now?" The monk shouted. The Master said: "Watch out, you might choke to death." Another monk asked: "In the realm of ultimate reality, not a single mote of dust stands; in the gate of the Buddha's Dharma, not a single speck is allowed. Where does this student stand?" The Master said: "Cheekbones visible from behind." The monk pressed: "The great thousand realms cannot contain it, the universe offers no barrier—what is the phrase that covers heaven and earth?" The Master said: "Dangerous." The monk said: "The thousand peaks stop at the mountain's edge, the ten thousand streams dissolve into the ocean." The Master said: "Finished." Then, picking up his staff, he said: "The wooden staff has long been stuck in a black lacquer bucket, never daring to reveal itself lightly to people." Placing the staff in his right hand, he continued: "Today it comes out, pointing east and west, as if attaching a handle to the begging bowl. Nonetheless, I dare not disappoint the staff. Why? Because it has eyes on the top of its head."

挂鐘板。拈鎚，云：「即此用，離此用，佛祖龜鑑、人天號令，致使七通八達底到來難免腳慌手亂，直饒三頭六臂者向前也須聽命歸降。且道以何為驗聻？」遂擊鐘板，云：「切忌聽著。」

晚參。「吹毛輥毬，張弓擎杈，楊岐驢子，曹山木蛇，洞山麻三斤，雲門乾屎橛，都是些陳爛葛藤，有甚麼交涉？印心者裏有領龜毛褐衫，綿綿密密，現現成成，設有個通身是手底漢，出來一肩擔荷，撩起便行，正眼也不敢覷他。」西堂云：「又道有甚交涉？」師云：「一棒打折你驢腰。」

別駕張來禎請上堂。問：「一切眾生皆具如來智慧德相，因甚學人無個入處？」師云：「怪阿誰？」進云：「請和尚垂示。」師云：「山僧舌頭短。」乃云：「上至諸佛，下至蠢動含靈，皆具如來智慧德相，從古至今與佛祖一般，何處欠少一毫毛許？所以道：在聖不增，在凡不減。諸佛以此轉大法輪，祖師以此提持心印，國王以此化育蒼生，我別駕張公以此發政施仁，訥上座以此應物利機，下至蠢動含靈，都向此中安身立命去也。印心恁麼酬唱，可謂盡情剖露，徹底掀翻。汝等諸人還委悉麼？臘雪連天白，春風透戶寒。」

含福善人供法衣，請上堂。師拈衣示眾云：「此是大庾嶺頭提不起底，含福善人得來陳似老僧，與諸人作個榜樣。還見麼？若以眼見，穿卻你眼根；若以耳見，穿卻你耳根；如或進前退後，穿卻你腳根；若擬議思量，穿卻你意根；若道總不恁麼，即穿卻你舌根。且道如何即是？」良久，云：「畢竟水須朝海去，到頭雲定覓山歸。」閱藏，小參。「佛說三藏十二部固不為多，祖成一千七百則亦不為煩，橫說、豎說，塵說、剎說，無非教人言前進步、句底翻身，頓明本地風光，徹證金剛智體。汝等諸人要知此經不在文句上、不在博采上，又不在死巴巴地、不在屙漉漉地。若是博采文句，三生六十劫只是個尋行數墨人、倚門傍戶漢，究竟格外全提一著子，猶未夢見在。山僧得個方便，與諸人略通消息。」卓杖，云：「摩訶般若波羅密。」

落堂，示眾。一僧出問：「香巖上樹……」話未終，師和聲便打，云：「掠虛漢有甚了期？禪和家參須真參、悟須實悟，莫學那般流撘鬼見解，忽然想出一段光景，便發虛道怪，就說悟了。不見道：趙州四十年不雜用心，長慶蒲團七破。那古人莫是搆你不得麼？」拈拄杖，云：「不得喚作拄杖子，不得背卻拄杖子，向者裏討得下落，來方丈裏通個消息。」

上堂。問：「祖席重新，宗風遠播，祗如透網金鱗到來，如何收攝？」師云：「試飛騰看。」進云：「金風吹玉管，那個是知音？」師云：「你須領取者一頓。」乃云：「柳眼豁開金世界，梅稍吐出玉玲瓏，東風一陣籬邊過，惹得遊蜂嚷舊新。還有不涉新舊底，出來道看。」卓拄杖，云：「可憐不是當家子，孤負蒼蒼兩道眉。」

上堂。「全提半提，了沒交涉；鈍根利根，何須修證？芭蕉拄杖子，頭上安頭；楊岐破燈盞，費油不少。昔達磨大師無端面壁，惹得神光斷臂求安，連累後代多少人落他圈套，箇箇扶籬摸壁，求出不得、求入不得。今日山僧路見不平，為諸人作個撇脫。」拈拄杖，卓一下，云：「快活！快活！雖然，也是無佛處放光。忽有個傍不肯底出來，和聲便掌，臭罵一頓，山僧只得懡㦬而退，走入大眾袈裟角裏去也。為何如此？有了你，沒了我。」

薦嚴，小參。「北斗藏身，了無名相之表；南辰跨步，頓絕是非之端。正恁麼時，月色沉沉，風聲寂寂，合作麼生是賀公宗親底面目？」喝一喝，云：「欲會其中真受用，除非身帶退魂香。」

旭止法弟領兩序辦齋，請上堂。問：「請師答話。」師云：「老僧沒口。」進云：「堂堂獨露，觸目生光，到者裏還有別通處麼？」師云：「有。」進云：「甚麼處是別通一路？」師打。進云：「瞎棒不得亂打。」師云：「瞎棒有瞎漢喫在。」乃云：「楊岐逼慈明晚參，成人不自在；趙州教嚴陽放下，自在不成人；院主請藥山陞座，節外生枝；睦州唆臨濟喫棒，不是好心。今辰旭止法弟領眾營齋，更教印心長老向曲彔床上弄鬼眼睛。且道：是好心？是不好心？具眼者試定當看。」良久，云：「寒冬不借陽回力，爭得隴梅鬥雪開？」

說戒，上堂。「參底不是禪、學底不是道、說底不是法、授底不是戒，直饒向淨裸裸處承當，早已拖泥帶水；更從活鱍鱍地領略，未免背覺合塵。且道：如何即得？」豎拂子，云：「會麼？黃金自有黃金價，爭肯和沙賣與人？」

解制，上堂。以拄杖○云：「結卻布袋頭，盲龜跛鱉、癩狗泥豬，一例活埋。」又以拄杖畫

云：「解開布袋口，天上人間、魔宮虎穴，任爾縱橫。」據定拄杖，云：「解結且置，秪如漿水錢教什麼人還？」卓一卓，云：「腳跟下好與三十拄杖。」

結制，上堂。拈香祝聖畢，師云：「正令未行，十方坐斷；正令已行，千差合轍。且放行好？把住好？試出來道看。」問：「放行也得，把住也得，祗如不放行、不把住還得麼？」師云：「得。」進云：「恁麼則光明殿裏簸土揚塵，糞草堆頭紫金光聚。」師云：「不得。」僧喝，師打，云：「一喝兩喝後又作麼生？」僧歸眾，師云：「降旗不斬。」乃云：「諸方結制、解制，上堂、普說，唯知多與兒酥乳喫，消與不消都總不知。印心者裡也沒解結、也沒酥乳與兒喫，直教諸人截斷攀緣，全身放下。且放下個甚麼聻？放下腰包、頂笠、竹杖、芒鞋，向印心堂中大死一回，甦醒過來，方知頭上有青天、腳下無寸土，那時雞足、九華、峨眉、五臺，要去便去、要來便來，若是詐明頭、掠虛漢，決不輕恕。珍重。」

協鎮陳萬策請上堂。問：「人天瞻仰，遐邇歸從，即今鎮臺陳公覿面拈香，未審有何奇特事？」師云：「獨有一雙窮相手，未曾低揖等閒人。」進云：「爐韝未開，煙光寂寂；鉗鎚大展，烈燄騰騰。假饒不涉肯綮底人來，又作麼生？」師云：「省卻山僧多少力。」乃云：「眉橫額上，耳掛面傍，鼻孔下垂，通身露布。當此之際，人人意氣崢嶸，個個頂天立地。」默顧左右，云：「還見麼？不可以眼見，不可以耳聞，不可以言言，不可以識識。若以眼見則瞎，耳聞則聾，言言啞卻你口，識識無你湊泊處。畢竟如何即是？舉頭天外看，誰是我般人？」

優婆塞弟子含已，室人照阿男、張廷臣請上堂。舉：「藥山久不陞座，院主白云：『大眾久思和尚示誨。』山云：『打鐘著。』眾纔集，山便下座，歸方丈。院主隨後問云：『和尚許為大眾說法，為甚一言不措？』山云：『經有經師、論有論師，怎怪得老僧？』」師云：「藥山可謂七通八達，被者僧一問，只得舌頭亂攪、口裏胡翻。幸爾在方丈裏面，不然活活羞殺。祗今莫有恁麼人？若有，待問：『為甚一言不措？』向他道：『印心院裏明日有齋。』」

賀有德供法衣、拄杖，請上堂。問：「官不容針，私通車馬，學人欲借一問，得麼？」師云：「教你莫當頭。」僧進前一步，師劈頭一棒。進云：「蒼天！蒼天！」師云：「蒼天！蒼天！」乃豎拄杖，云：「者木上座能殺能活，能縱能奪，佛祖到來總不饒，千手大悲難摸索。一向以來，倚墻靠壁，鞭牛擲馬，不料冤家路窄，撞著個無知俗漢，大有徑庭，不近人情，硬向驢頭上簪花，推出來與眾公相見。」卓一卓，云：「還識拄杖子麼？汾陽云：『識得拄杖子，行腳事畢。』草堂云：『識得拄杖子，更參三十年。』印心要且不然，識得拄杖子，烏龜鑽破壁。雖然如是，印心見處也要諸人共知。」靠拄杖，下座。

薦嚴，小參。「生事之以禮，死葬之以禮，祭之以禮，龜蒙尼父之施為。祖師門下又則不然，生事之以禮，雲門乾屎橛；死葬之以禮，南方丙丁火；祭之以禮，曹山好釅酒。且道與尼父之理是同是別？」以拂子拍案，云：「哩羅連，羅哩連，哩羅羅，哩連華羅。」

資亡，小參。「家計千般，都盧從此放下；恩情萬倍，儼然瓦解冰消。到者裏，乾坤不管，今古何拘？千聖喚不回頭，百鳥都無尋跡。當此之際，且楊氏夫人還有安身立命處麼？片片白雲去復留，看來隊隊黃金骨。」

解制，上堂。「印心今日解制，還有則未了底公案要與諸人辯明；若不辯明，恐去諸方逢人錯舉。」良久，顧視左右，云：「大耳不同謀。」下座。

辭眾，上堂。「崢嶸頭角被誰牽？犁耙春風卸下肩，直入雲深深處去，頻煨黃獨且隨便。」