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四明尊者教行錄 5.114

四明尊者教行錄 5.114

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Classical Chinese

5.114

吾遺書付浮石崇矩。吾傳教觀四十餘年,既云樂在其中,不覺老之將至。近以綿痼,百骸俱痛,唯冥妙空,達生死相,相亦非相,去來本常。此乃一心三觀之要,吾在為訓物之柄,吾逝為見佛之基。汝早聞思,夙預傳唱,當須勤勵以益諸後,俾祖燈廣曜佛種不斷。若依此者,真吾徒也。捨此以往,復何言哉。臨行書此,不及委悉,深宜體察。不具。

My testamentary letter is delivered to Chongju of Fushi. I have transmitted doctrinal teaching and contemplation for over forty years; since it is said that 'joy is found therein', I did not notice that old age was coming. Recently, with lingering illness, all hundred joints ache; I only commune with the wondrous emptiness and penetrate the marks of birth and death: marks are also non-marks, and coming and going are fundamentally eternal. This is the essence of the threefold contemplation in one mind: while I am here, it is the handle for instructing beings; when I depart, it is the foundation for seeing the Buddha. You heard and reflected early on, and participated in propagating from long ago; you must be diligent to benefit those who come after, so that the ancestral lamp may shine widely and the Buddha-seed may not be severed. If you follow this, you are truly my disciple. Setting this aside, what more is there to say? Writing this upon the verge of departure, I have no time to go into details; you should deeply comprehend and examine it. Incomplete.

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