密菴和尚語錄 1.2

1.2

密菴禪師示寂之三年，其得法真子，住靈巖了悟，以老師平生語一編屬（鎡）作序。（鎡）切謂：老師一見應菴便明大法，破沙盆語盛播叢林，此無可序者；七鎮名山道滿天下，一時龍象盡出鉗鎚，此亦無可序者；入對中宸闡揚般若，深契上意益光宗門，此亦無可序者。然（鎡）叨承衣付，義不容默，謹為之序曰：《密菴語錄》一帙，總八十八板，板二十行，行二十字。若於此薦得，許親見密菴；如或未然，聽取一轉語。淳熙十五年冬仲月九日，參學張（鎡）序。

Three years after Chan Master Mi'an manifested quiescence, his true dharma-heir Liaowu, residing at Lingyan, entrusted [Zhang] Zi with compiling his late teacher's lifetime sayings into a single volume and requested a preface. [Zhang] Zi respectfully considers: Once the late master met Ying'an, he immediately comprehended the Great Dharma, and his words on the broken earthenware basin were widely propagated through the monasteries—there is nothing here to be prefaced. He held seven celebrated mountains, his Way filling all under heaven, and the dragons and elephants of the day all came forth from his tongs and hammer—there is likewise nothing here to be prefaced. He entered the imperial palace to expound prajñā, deeply according with the Emperor's intention and further brightening the ancestral gate—there is also nothing here to be prefaced. Nevertheless, having undeservedly received the transmission of the robe, it is unbefitting for [Zhang] Zi to remain silent, and so I reverently compose this preface, saying: The *Recorded Sayings of Mi'an* constitutes one case, comprising eighty-eight printing blocks in all, twenty lines to a block, and twenty characters to a line. If here you can grasp it, you are permitted to see Mi'an in person; if not yet so, listen to a single turning phrase. On the ninth day of the middle winter month in the fifteenth year of Chunxi [1188 CE], student Zhang Zi wrote this preface.