圓悟佛果禪師語錄 6.27

6.27

Residing at Zhenru Chan Monastery on Mount Yunju in Nankang Commandery. On the sixth day of the eleventh month in the dingwei year of Jianyan [1127 CE], while at Mount Fuyu in Zhenjiang, the Master received an imperial dispatch summoning him to the temporary imperial court. On the seventeenth day, he had an audience with the Emperor, and after an extended discussion, received an imperial decree to reside at Yunju. The next day the imperial decree was issued; at that time, officials of both bureaus and court attendants gathered at Yongxi Monastery to invite the Master to ascend the seat and reverently receive the imperial decree. The Master picked up the imperial decree, showed it to the assembly, and said: "Personally proclaimed and bestowed from within the ninefold walls of the imperial palace, / A single beam of spiritual light flashes through the great void. / The true ultimate truth within the ultimate truth, / A lotus blooming within the cluster of a thousand flowers. / Knowing it at a single mention saves so much effort; but if that is not yet so, I ask that it be read aloud once more."