大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.11

1.11

汾陽無德禪師，一日謂眾曰：「夜來夢，亡父母覓酒肉紙錢，不免徇俗置以祀之。」事辦於庫堂，設位如俗間禮，酌酒行肉化紙錢訖，令集知事頭首散其餘盤。知事輩却之，無德獨坐筵中飲啖自若，眾僧數曰：「酒肉僧，豈堪為師法耶？」腰包盡去，惟慈明、大愚、泉大道等六七人在耳。無德翌日上堂云：「許多閑神野鬼，秖消一盤酒肉、兩陌紙錢斷送去了也。法華經云：『此眾無枝葉，唯有諸貞實。』」下座。

One day, Chan Master Fenyang Wude said to the assembly, "Last night in a dream, my deceased parents sought wine, meat, and paper money. I cannot but follow convention and set out an offering for them." When the arrangements were made in the storehouse hall, seats were set up according to worldly etiquette; having poured wine, offered meat, and burned paper money, he ordered the monastic officers and senior monks to be gathered to distribute the remaining platters. The monastic officers declined them. Wude sat alone at the feast, drinking and eating at ease. The monks reproached him, saying, "How could a monk of wine and meat be fit to serve as a teacher and model?" With packs on their waists, they all left, leaving only six or seven persons, including Ciming, Dayu, and Quan Dadao. The next day, Wude ascended the hall and said, "So many idle spirits and wild ghosts have been sent off with merely a platter of wine and meat and two hundred sheets of paper money! The Lotus Sutra says: 'This assembly has no branches or leaves; it consists only of what is genuine and real.'" He then stepped down from the seat.