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Changsha Jingcen (788-868), aka Hu heshang
(Rmaji:) Chsha Keijin, aka Ku osh 
(English:) "Tiger Cen" 
 
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Changsha
Jingcen, "Tiger Cen" 
by Andy Ferguson 
In: Zen's Chinese Heritage: The Masters and Their Teachings, Wisdom
Publications, pp.
149-153.
<blockquote>
 
CHANGSHA JINGCEN
(d. 868) was a disciple of Nanquan Puyuan. He had the nickname Tiger Cen.
Although he is known to have lived in the city of Changsha at Lushan Temple,
Jingcen roamed China expounding the Dharma according to the situations he
encountered. He possessed an extremely pointed and aggressive style of
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instruction. Thus, after Jingcen literally climbed on top of Yangshan, he was
widely likened to a tiger. The lamp records offer evidence of Jingcens incisive
lectures.
 
<blockquote>
Zen master
Changsha Jingcen entered the hall and addressed the monks, saying, If I give
you some religious teaching, then there will be grass growing in the hall ten
feet deep! But this is something that cant be stopped. So I say to you that all
worlds pervading the ten directions are the true monks eye. All worlds
pervading the ten directions are the true monks complete body. Pervading all
worlds in the ten directions is your own brilliant light. All worlds in the ten
directions are within your own light. And throughout all worlds in the ten
directions there is not a being that is not you. This is what Ive taught you
when Ive said that all the buddhas, dharmas, and sentient beings of the three
worlds are the great light of wisdom. But even before this light was propagated,
what is the place where you existed? Before this light was propagated, before
buddhas and before sentient beings, from where did the mountains, rivers, and
the great earth come forth?
A monk asked,
What is the true monks eye?
Changsha
said, So vast and wide that you cant leave it.
Changsha also
said, Those who become buddhas or ancestors cant leave it. The six realms of
transmigration cant leave it.
The monk
said, I dont undertand what it is that they cant leave.
said, In the day, see the sun. In the night, see the stars.
said, I dont understand.
said, The lofty mountains are colored green upon green.
 
Teachers of our order say to abide by sitting in the bodhi seat. What is the
seat?
said, Just now Im sitting. Just now youre standing.
 
What is the great way?
said, It doesnt exclude you.
asked, Who is the teacher of all buddhas?
said, For the incalculable eon, who has ever concealed this?
 
What was there before the buddhas?
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said, Luzu entered the hall and spoke incoherently to the masters and
disciples.
 
Changsha sent
a monk to ask a question of Zen master Hui, who was a fellow student with
Changsha under Nanquan.
asked Zen master Hui, What was it like after you saw Nanquan?
Hui was
silent.
asked, What was it like before you saw Nanquan?
Hui said,
There couldnt be anything more.
returned and told Changsha about this conversation.
Changsha then
showed the monk a verse that said:
<blockquote>
Atop a
hundred-foot pole, an unmoving person, 
Although hes gained entry, he hasnt reached the truth. 
He must step forth from the top of the pole, 
Then the world in ten directions is the complete body.
</blockquote>
 
The monk then
asked, If one is at the very top of a hundred-foot pole, how does one step
forward?
said, The Lang Province mountains. The Li Province rivers.
said, The four seas and five lakes are splendid within it.
 
Changsha and
Yangshan were enjoying the moon.
Yangshan
said, Everyone is completely endowed with this, but they are unable to make use
of it.
said, I invite you to use it now.
asked, How would you use it?
knocked Yangshan down with a shove to the chest, then stepped on him.
said, Whoa, just like a tiger! (Changqing Huileng said, Before they were one
family. Afterward they were not of one family. He also said, Heresy is
difficult to support.)
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From this
time forward Changsha was known to all as The Tiger.
 
Fundamentally, can people become buddhas or not?
said, Do you think that the emperor of the Great Tang still plows a field and
harvests the rice?
said, I still dont understand who it is who becomes a buddha.
said, Its you that becomes a buddha.
The monk was
silent.
said, Do you understand?
said, No.
said, If someone trips on the ground and falls down, and then they use the
ground to get up againdoes the ground say anything?
 
Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. What does this mean?
said, Listen to this verse of mine:
<blockquote>
An
obstruction is not a barrier, 
A passage is not empty. 
If people understand in this manner, 
Mind and form are fundamentally the same.
</blockquote>
 
Changsha also
said:
<blockquote>
Buddha
nature grandly manifests, 
But passions obscure abiding nature. 
When the selfless nature of beings is realized, 
How does my face differ from Buddhas?
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
 
<blockquote>
What is my mind?
said, All worlds in the ten directions are your mind.
said, If so, then theres no particular place where my body is
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manifested.
said, It is the place where your body is manifested.
said, What is the place where it manifests?
said, The great ocean, vast and deep.
said, Dragons and fish frolic freely, leaping and diving.
 
eulogized his teacher Nanquan, saying, Great and august Nanquan! His teaching
shows the origin of the three worldsan eternal diamondradiating limitlessly.
He manifested numberless buddhas. Now hes gone back.
Long before,
upon his enlightenment under Nanquan, Changsha had composed the following
verse:
<blockquote>
Today Ive
returned to my old homes gate, 
And Nanquan speaks intimately of the entire universe. 
All things reveal the ancients meaning. 
The prodigal regrets unfilial acts.
</blockquote>
 
To this verse
Nanquan responded with another that said:
<blockquote>
Todays
great function is not discussed, 
For Nanquan speaks not of the entire universe. 
Returning home is the affair of descendants, 
The ancients never left the gate.
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
 

</blockquote>
 
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Case
36
 
Chsa Goes Picnicking
 
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By
Yamada Kun 
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<blockquote>
 One day, Chsa
went for a walk in the mountains. When he returned to the gate, the head monk
asked, "Where have you been, Master?" Chsa said, "I was out walking about in
the mountains." The head monk said, "Where did you go?" Chsa said, "First I
went following the scented grass; then I came back through the falling flowers."
The head monk said, "It sounds very much like a spring mood." Chsa said, "It's
better than the autumn dew dropping on the lotus flower." Setch commented, "I
am grateful for that answer." 
</blockquote>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
 
 
MASTER CHANGSHA JINGCEN
<blockquote>
Master Changsha
Jingcen was ordained as a monastic at an early age, and was a student of
Master Nanquan Puyuan. There is record of Changsha Jingcen teaching at Luyuan
Temple in Hunan Province. 
<blockquote>
Those Who Study the Way Do Not Recognize the Truth

sans-serif">Those who study the Way do not recognize the truth; 
Like those of old, they only recognize the spirit. 
Infinite kalpas ago it was the origin of birth and death; 
Ignorant people are called inherently human. 
<blockquote>
sans-serif">Translated by John Balcom 
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
 
 

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