國清百錄 2.79

2.79

弟子總持和南。親信傳中詵還。逮去月朔告。用慰延結熱猶熾，願道體休和。仰承經過攝山鍾岫，寺塔安善徒眾和肅，仍留二十僧權停開善，進至匡嶽結夏安居。東林禪閣還為一寺，峰頂精舍復皆隨喜。敬緣勸發獲此熏修，用耨身田方流法雨，金光明福喜荷彌深。弟子去月十四日始度朱方。風土異宜流金在節，攝衛多不調適，每有劣然。二十九日來，石頭稍已平復，自江浦違心馳情彭䗍，以日為歲無時暫忘。願未解夏前預整裝束，法歲若滿即事西浮，彼間酬願務令在促。非但弟子蔽識希護，周爰深恐，禪慧學徒咸思鑽仰。宣尼在陳致歎自衛。便歸屈道紆情，事非為己。今遣主薄王灌指往祇承，并貢別牒用忘存省，敢略繁辭。謹和南。七月一日。

Your disciple Zongchi bows his head. The trusted attendant, Chuanyou Shen, has returned. I received your message of the first day of last month, which brought comfort to my lingering longing. The heat is still intense; I pray that your bodily health is peaceful and harmonious. I look up and understand that you passed through Mount She and the peaks of Mount Zhong, where the monasteries and pagodas are safe and sound, and the disciples harmonious and disciplined; you still left twenty monks temporarily at Kaishan, and proceeded to Mount Kuang to enter the summer retreat (varṣā). Donglin and Chan'ge have been united as one monastery once more, and all at the Fengding hermitage likewise rejoice. By reverently taking this as a cause for exhortation, we obtain this spiritual cultivation, weeding the field of the body so that the Dharma rain may flow; for the blessings of the Suvarṇaprabhāsa Sūtra, my joy and gratitude are all the deeper. Your disciple only crossed Zhufang on the fourteenth day of last month. The climate being unfamiliar and the season melting metals, my bodily care was often out of balance, and I frequently felt weak. Since arriving at Shitou on the twenty-ninth, I have gradually recovered. Ever since my heart was separated from you at Jiangpu, my feelings have sped toward Mount Kuang, treating days as years, not forgetting you for a single moment. I hope that before ending the summer retreat you will prepare your baggage in advance, and when the Dharma year is full, immediately float westward; let the fulfillment of your vows there be undertaken with haste. Not only does your disciple with obscured understanding hope for your protection, but everywhere there is deep apprehension, and the students of dhyāna and wisdom all yearn to look up to you. When Confucius was in Chen, he uttered a sigh and returned to Lu; so bending your path and accommodating your feelings is not for yourself alone. I now dispatch Registrar Wang Guan directly to attend upon you, and also present a separate dispatch to express my mindful inquiries, daring to dispense with verbose words. Respectfully bowing my head. First day of the seventh month.