鐵眉三巴掌禪師語錄
Iron Eyebrow Three Slaps Chan Master's Recorded Sayings
嗣法孫 性養 性亮 仝編
Dharma Descendant, Xingyang and Xingliang, Co-Compilers
上堂
Ascending the Hall
崇禎辛巳十月望日，師住夔州府石砫牛南山華嚴寺，結制上堂，拈香祝聖畢，復拈云：「此瓣香供養過去吹萬本師，用酬法乳。」維那白槌，師豎拂子云：「看又看不見，尋又尋不著，往返無蹤跡，空向我摸索。」擲下云：「冷處著把火。」僧問：「這個東西不勞拈示，請和尚另道一句。」師云：「鐵樹掛燈籠。」
On the full moon day of the tenth month in the year of Xinsi, during the Chongzhen era, the Master was residing at Huayan Temple on Niu'nan Mountain in Shizhu, Kuizhou Prefecture. Ascending the hall for the opening of the retreat, he lit incense and paid homage to the Emperor. Then, holding up the incense again, he said: "This incense is offered to my former teacher, Chui Wan, to repay the kindness of his Dharma milk."
The vice-abbot struck the gavel. The Master raised his fly-whisk and said: "Look, yet you cannot see. Seek, yet you cannot find. There is no trace of coming or going—in vain you grope at me." He threw it down and said: "Stoke a fire in the cold place."
A monk asked: "This thing does not require you to hold it up and point it out. Please, venerable sir, say something else." The Master replied: "An iron tree hanging a lantern."
上堂：「句句有眼名為禪，鼻唇直掛萬人看，金鍼繡出鴛鴦帳，大地山河共一天。」
"Every phrase has an eye—this is called Chan. Nostrils and lips hang straight for all to see. A gold needle embroiders the mandarin-duck curtain; The great earth, mountains, and rivers share one sky."
上堂，拈拄杖一卓，云：「會得這尊古佛即了了也，若會不得也沒奈你何。」
The master ascended the hall, struck his staff once, and said: "If you understand this ancient Buddha, then it's clear. If you don't understand, there's nothing I can do for you."
說戒上堂，撫掌云：「這是正戒，仔細思量，無崩無壞，無損無傷，誰分皂白，非青非黃，應無所住，不壞金剛，金剛本體，大露堂堂。」喝一喝。
Teaching on the Precepts, the master clapped his hands and said:
"This is the true precept. Reflect carefully: it never crumbles, never breaks, never diminishes, never harms. Who can distinguish black from white? It is neither blue nor yellow. It should abide nowhere, yet it is the indestructible vajra. The vajra's essence is fully revealed in all its brilliance."
He then gave a shout.
上堂：「高處高，須彌頂上放白毫。低處低，大海之中採摩尼。不高不低又作麼生？山僧今日平平解制。」
Teaching the assembly: "High, and yet higher—on the peak of Mount Sumeru, the white hair-tuft shines. Low, and yet lower—within the great ocean, the mani pearl is retrieved. What about neither high nor low? Today, this mountain monk simply and evenly releases the restrictions."
師住萬縣寶峰山雲來寺，上堂。僧問：「爐鞴弘開，未審雲來有甚消息？」師云：「半夜巖頭孤月靜。」進云：「和尚如何出手？」師云：「一聲高樹老猿啼。」進云：「學人分中得個甚麼？」師云：「毫毛出大樹。」問：「第一義即不問，開堂事作麼生？」師云：「緊水灘頭拋繡毬。」進云：「恁麼則學人有賴。」師云：「有緣遇著，無緣錯過。若論有緣，對面不睹；若論無緣，千里不遙。莫道有緣無緣，但辦己事，勿論他非。參得悟得，在在安身立命，莫說是閻家老子，縱千百億釋迦也沒奈你何；若未悟未了，百草頭邊橫不得、豎不得，大爐鞴中又如何下得手？」卓一卓。
The master resided at Yunlai Temple on Baofeng Mountain in Wan County and ascended the hall. A monk asked: "The forge is ablaze—may I ask, does Yunlai have any news?" The master said: "At midnight, on the cliff, a solitary moon is still." The monk continued: "How will the master act?" The master said: "A single cry—an old gibbon in a high tree." The monk pressed: "What then falls to this student's lot?" The master said: "A hair sprouts from a great tree." Another monk asked: "Leaving aside the ultimate truth, what of the opening of this hall?" The master said: "Tossing an embroidered ball where the rapids surge." The monk responded: "In that case, your student has something to rely on." The master said: "If there is affinity, you meet; if not, you pass by. Speaking of affinity, face to face, you do not see; speaking of no affinity, a thousand miles are not distant. Do not cling to talk of having or lacking affinity. Simply attend to your own matter; do not judge others' faults. If you penetrate and awaken, you will find a place to rest and settle anywhere. Then even the King of Hell, or a hundred thousand billion Shakyamunis, could do nothing to you. But if you have not awakened or resolved, you cannot move freely even among the grass tips—how then could you act within the great forge?" He then struck the staff once.
上堂：「十個指頭是五雙，綿州附子漢州薑。會得海底撈明月，露地白牛角生光。」
上堂：「八萬四千門戶，用他作麼？出門撞著露柱，老僧不入。海水穿著眼睛，步步腳踏是路。」
上堂：「老僧有時說世間法，有時說出世法，出世法就是世間法，世間法卻是出世法。何以故？世出世間不二法，一聲通和無覓處，阿誰不是丈夫兒？衲僧鼻孔如來路。」問：「陞座說法即不問，未出方丈事如何？」師云：「東林桃花紅灼灼。」進云：「出後如何？」師云：「西溪流水響鼕鼕。」進云：「不出不入時如何？」師喝一喝。
The Master addressed the assembly: "Sometimes I speak of worldly dharmas, sometimes of transcendent dharmas. Yet transcendent dharmas are precisely worldly dharmas, and worldly dharmas are transcendent. Why? Because the world and transcendence are not two. When you hear one sound fully, there's nowhere to find separation. Who among you is not a man of true spirit? A monk's nostrils are the path of the Tathagata."
A monk asked: "I do not ask about ascending the seat to teach Dharma. What about before stepping out of the abbot's quarters?"
The Master replied: "The peach blossoms at Eastern Grove are brilliantly red."
The monk continued: "What about after stepping out?"
The Master said: "The flowing water at Western Stream gurgles and splashes."
The monk pressed further: "What about when one neither steps out nor stays in?"
The Master let out a sharp shout.
上堂：「決烈漢一腳踏翻，受用無盡。何故？是無生滅法、是無修證位、是絕對待意，卷舒不勞功勳，來去了無變易。還會麼？」良久，云：「老僧巴掌也解通風。」
師住萬縣大佛寺，上堂。問：「縣主設供，為薦程太夫人，和尚如何指示？」師云：「何處不西方？」進云：「如何是利生接物句？」師云：「都利山上都哆唎。」進云：「如何是離言離說句？」師便喝，僧亦喝。師云：「多事。」問：「如何是大佛頂？」師豎拂子，云：「看。」進云：「還有向上事麼？」師下座。
The Master resided at the Great Buddha Temple in Wan County. One day, he ascended the hall.
A monk asked: "The county magistrate has arranged offerings to dedicate merit to the late Madam Cheng. How will the Master guide this?"
The Master replied: "Where is not the Western Paradise?"
The monk continued: "What is the phrase for benefiting beings and responding to others?"
The Master said: "On Duli Mountain, all is Dūlī."
The monk pressed further: "What is the phrase that transcends words and speech?"
The Master then shouted, and the monk also shouted.
The Master said: "Such meddling."
Another monk asked: "What is the Great Buddha's Crown?"
The Master held up his whisk and said: "Look."
The monk asked: "Is there anything beyond that?"
The Master then descended from his seat.
上堂，喝一喝，云：「諦當諦當，本無遮障，動中之靜，隨緣放曠。」良久，云：「且道老僧住在甚麼處？」
上堂：「日月照臨不到，天地覆載不著。含元殿上問長安，直捷便是逍遙路。南山高，北山低，日出東來又轉西。昨夜霜風露消息，吹落林花三五枝。」
佛誕，上堂：「孟夏有八，不許問話。有人若問，善惡齊打。不是巴掌英雄，只為熊山路滑。」
上堂，豎拂子云：「原無參，本無念，萬里寒空打一片。問道卻是古家鄉，知此從來無間斷。」問：「空屋無人時如何？」師云：「金殿臥清風。」
上堂，舉：「經偈云：『無上甚深微玅法，百千萬劫難遭遇，我今見聞得受持，願解如來真實義。』老僧則不然，三掌打來微玅法，當下了然難思議，離卻見聞本受持，此是吾宗真實義。」