一天，佛印禪師登壇說法，蘇東坡聞訊趕來參加，然已無空位。禪師說：「人都坐滿了，此間已無學士坐處。」蘇東坡回答：「既然此間無坐處，我就以禪師四大五蘊之身為座。」
禪師：「學士！我問你一個問題，如果你答得出來，我老和尚的身體就當你的座位，若否，你身上的玉帶就留在本寺，做為紀念。」蘇東坡一向自命不凡，便答應了。佛印禪師就說：「四大本空，五蘊非有，請問學士要坐哪裡呢？」蘇東坡聞言為之語塞。
我們的色身是由地水火風四大假合，沒有一樣實在，如何能安坐於此 呢？因此蘇東坡的玉帶輸給佛印禪師，至今仍留存於金山寺。

When Su Dongpo learned that Chan Master Foyin would ascend the high seat to deliver a discourse on the Dharma, he hurried there only to find all the seats taken. “This place has no seat for you, scholar,” the master said playfully. Su Dongpo replied, “Then I will use the Chan master’s body of the four great elements and five aggregates as a seat.”
Master Foyin said, “Scholar! If you can answer one question, you can take this old monk’s body as your seat. But if you cannot, you will leave your jade belt at this temple as a memento.” Su Dongpo had always thought highly of himself, so he agreed. Then the master said, “The four great elements are fundamentally empty and the five aggregates have no substantial existence. May I ask, scholar, where then do you wish to sit?” Su Dongpo was unable to utter a word.
Because our physical bodies are temporary arrangements of the four great elements -- earth, water, fire, and air -- they have no real existence. How, then, can one use the body as a seat? Su Dongpo lost his jade belt to Chan Master Foyin at Jinshan Temple, where it remains to this day.

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