佛事
Buddhist Practices
玅善火。「幽靈寂靜，玅智難通，生死吉凶，神明可卜。」驀豎火炬，云：「玅善！玅善！甚處去也？」復打圓相，攛下，云：「一把火燒塵俗債，無明業累盡情灰，大張兩隻玲瓏眼，撫掌呵呵笑去來。」
Wonderful and Good Fire. "The ghostly spirit is still and silent; wondrous wisdom is hard to reach. Life and death, fortune and misfortune—the spirits can divine them." Suddenly he raised the firebrand and said, "Wonderful and Good! Wonderful and Good! Where are you going?" Then he drew a circle in the air, tossed it down, and said, "One torch burns away the debts of worldly dust; the burdens of ignorance and karma are reduced to ashes. Open wide your two bright, knowing eyes, clap your hands, and with a hearty laugh, come and go."
良憲火。「成住壞空，天之時也；生老病死，人之數也。又何異焉？然而我良憲居士，不斷煩惱而明佛性，不捨生死而證涅槃，去亦不滅，來亦不生。試問大眾：『生死即且置，不去不來一句作麼生道？』」以火炬作此⊙震威一喝，云：「撲破醯雞甕裏天，隨方遊戲莊嚴海。」
Liangxian Huo. "Formation, dwelling, decay, and emptiness—these are the seasons of heaven. Birth, aging, sickness, and death—these are the lot of humanity. How do they differ? And yet, layman Liangxian, without cutting off afflictions, awakened to Buddha-nature; without abandoning birth and death, realized Nirvana. Departing, yet not ceasing to be; coming, yet not being born. Let me ask you all: 'Setting aside birth and death for now—how would you express the single phrase of neither departing nor coming?'" With the firebrand he drew this ⊙, gave a mighty shout, and said: "Smash the gnat's jar and the sky within it—play freely in every direction, adorning the ocean of majesty."
恆一火。拈火炬，打圓相，云：「大火聚裏好藏身，頻頻直步正相應，分明幾節黃金骨，一度紅爐一度新。」喝一喝，攛下火炬。
Hengyi held up a torch, traced a circle in the air with it, and said:
"In the heart of the great fire, there is a fine place to hide. Step straight ahead, again and again — that is the true response. How clearly the golden bones show their joints: once through the red furnace, once made new."
He gave a shout, and threw down the torch.
寂壽火。「死生兩字，人各有之，去就二途，阿誰苟免？既不苟免，且如寂壽死邪？去邪？即今在甚麼處？」喝一喝，攛下火炬，云：「昨夜蓮池花放處，堂堂端坐妙嚴身。」
Jing Shou was cast into the fire. "These two words, life and death—everyone has them. These two paths, going and staying—who can avoid them? Since no one can avoid them, then tell me: Was Jing Shou dying, or leaving? And right now, where is he?" He gave a shout, tossed down the torch, and said: "Last night, where the lotus pond bloomed, there he sits upright in magnificent adornment."