樂邦文類 2.153

2.153

安養不在彼、浮雲非我有，此涑永公所謂安樂土也。餘既得罪台州，自壬辰八月捐書，不復為文，革心改過，專趣此土。路長身老，恨發心之晚也。比閱晁文元公《道院集》論空不空三昧，因繫之以辭，而曰辭者貫心而易記耳。其辭則四句偈也。文元公深入佛海，言無枝葉。至於貫心之辭，則亦未忘，而且欲其易記焉。公之所謂易記者，豈主於記其辭而已哉？（余）竊慕焉，凡貫心之辭，欲已而未能已者，筆之于此，名之曰「寶城易記錄」云。

Peaceful Nurture is not elsewhere; floating clouds are not my own—this is what Master Suyu called the Land of Peace and Joy. After I incurred offense in Taizhou, from the eighth month of the renchen year I put away my books and composed no more texts, reforming my mind and correcting my faults, dedicating myself solely to this land. The road is long and my body is old; I regret having given rise to the aspiration so late. Recently I read Duke Chao Wenyuan's Daoyuan ji on the empty and non-empty samādhis, to which he appended verse, saying that words penetrate the heart and are easy to remember. His words were a four-line gāthā. Duke Wenyuan penetrated deeply into the Buddha-ocean; his words had no superfluous branches. As for words that penetrate the heart, he had not forgotten them either, and moreover wished that they be easy to remember. Could what the Duke called 'easy to remember' be primarily about remembering the words alone? I secretly admire this; whenever words that penetrate the heart arose which I wished to stop but could not stop, I wrote them down here and named it 'Record of Easy Recollection of the Jeweled City.'