大慧普覺禪師宗門武庫 1.24

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舜老夫住廬山棲賢，槐都官守南康，因私忿民其衣。淨因大覺璉禪師，嘗入舜室，聞舜還俗，遣人取歸淨因，讓正寢居之，自處偏室。仁宗數召璉，入內問道，竟不言舜事。偶一日，嘉王取旨出淨因飯僧，見大覺侍舜之旁甚恭，歸奏仁宗，召對便殿，見之歎曰：「道韻奇偉，真山林達士。」於扇上書云：「賜曉舜依舊為僧，特旨再住棲賢。」仍賜紫衣銀鉢盂。舜罷棲賢日，以二莊力舁轎，至羅漢寺前，二力相謂曰：「既不是我院長老，不能遠去。」棄轎而歸。暨舜再來，令人先慰諭二力曰：「爾當時做得是，但安心，不必疑懼。」舜入院上堂，頌曰：「無端被譖枉遭迍，半年有餘作俗人，今日再歸三峽寺，幾多歡喜幾多嗔。」

The old fellow Shun dwelt at Qixian on Mount Lu. An official of the Bureau of Remonstrance, Huai, governed Nankang and, out of private malice, defrocked him as a commoner. Chan Master Dajue Lian of Jingyin had once entered Shun's room; hearing that Shun had returned to lay life, he sent someone to bring him back to Jingyin, yielded the main bedchamber for him to live in, and stayed in a side room himself. Emperor Renzong summoned Lian several times into the palace to inquire about the Way, but [Lian] never spoke of Shun's affair. One day, King Jia obtained an imperial decree to go out to Jingyin to feed the monks, and saw Dajue attending at Shun's side with great deference; upon returning, he reported it to Renzong. [Renzong] summoned [Shun] to an audience in a side palace, and seeing him, sighed and said: 'His demeanor in the Way is extraordinary and majestic; he is truly a man of attainment of the mountain forests!' On a fan he wrote: 'It is bestowed that Xiaoshun be a monk as before, and by special decree dwell once again at Qixian.' He also bestowed a purple robe and a silver alms bowl. On the day Shun was dismissed from Qixian, two manor laborers carried his sedan chair; when they reached the front of Luohan Monastery, the two laborers said to each other: 'Since he is no longer the elder of our monastery, we cannot go far,' and abandoning the sedan chair, they returned. When Shun came again, he sent someone beforehand to comfort and instruct the two laborers, saying: 'What you did back then was right; just set your minds at ease, you need not be suspicious or fearful.' When Shun entered the monastery and ascended the hall, he presented a verse: 'For no reason slandered, in vain I met distress; / For more than half a year I was a worldly man. / Today I return again to Sanxia Monastery; / How much joy there is, and how much indignation!'