鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.83

1.83

普化一日於街市中就人乞直裰，人皆與之，普化俱不要。師令院主買棺一具，普化歸來，師云：「我與汝做得箇直裰了也。」普化便自擔去，繞街市叫云：「臨濟與我做直裰了也，我往東門遷化去。」市人競隨看之。普化云：「我今日未，來日往南門遷化去。」如是三日，人皆不信，至第四日無人隨看，獨出城外，自入棺內，倩路行人釘之，即時傳布，市人競往開棺，乃見全身脫去，秖聞空中鈴響隱隱而去。

One day in the marketplace, Puhua begged people for a robe. Everyone gave him one, but Puhua refused them all. The master had the monastery director buy a coffin. When Puhua returned, the master said, "I have made a robe for you." Puhua shouldered it himself and went around the streets shouting, "Linji made a robe for me! I am going to the East Gate to pass away." The townspeople vied to follow and watch. Puhua said, "Not today; tomorrow I will go to the South Gate to pass away." This went on for three days, and nobody believed him. On the fourth day, no one followed to watch; he went out of the city walls alone, got into the coffin himself, and asked a passer-by to nail it shut. Word spread immediately, and the townspeople rushed to open the coffin, only to find that his whole body had cast off and vanished; they only heard the faint chiming of his hand-bell receding into the sky.