密菴和尚語錄 1.349

1.349

師諱感傑，俗姓鄭，福州福清人，密菴其自號也。母甞夢靈山老僧入其舍已而生。師自幼頴悟不凡，每厭塵染，欲求出世間法。及受戒為僧，不憚遊行，遍參知識。初謁應庵，孤硬難入屬遭呵咄，心不退轉，久而相契，遂蒙印可。自此道價益喧，人天推出。其分坐而說法，則見於吳門之萬壽、四明之天童；其正坐而說法，則見於三衢之烏巨、之祥符，金陵之蔣山、無錫之華藏。所至之處舉揚宗旨，露裸裸活鱍鱍，七縱八橫無少罣礙。然十二時中步步皆踏實地，雖不待修證，而修證未甞忘；雖不假精進，而精進未甞怠。滴水滴凍，照瑩明徹，遂使天下衲子響合雲臻，相遇諸途，則曰何不禮師去？文彩既彰，聲名上達。淳熙四年有旨住徑山，召對選德殿問佛法大要。開堂靈隱，又遣中使降香，道俗觀者如堵。七年自徑山遷靈隱，上親灑宸翰詢以法要，又遣侍臣以《圓覺經》中四病為問，師皆以實語對，恩遇甚寵。十一年歸老于天童。十三年六月忽示微疾，十二日趺坐而逝。年六十有九，臘五十有二，葬于寺之東。

The Master's taboo name was Ganjie, his secular surname was Zheng, and he was a native of Fuqing in Fuzhou. Mi'an was his self-chosen moniker. His mother once dreamed of an old monk from Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa entering her residence, after which she gave birth to him. From his youth, the Master was extraordinarily intelligent; he constantly detested worldly defilements and wished to seek the transworldly Dharma. When he received the precepts and became a monk, he did not shrink from travelling afar to visit spiritual mentors everywhere. He first called on Ying'an, where it was solitary, unyielding, and difficult to enter; frequently scolded and shouted at, his mind never retreated. After a long time they were in accord, and he received the seal of approval. From then on, his reputation in the Way resounded even more, and gods and humans pushed him forward. His sharing the seat to preach the Dharma was seen at Wanshou in Wumen and Tiantong in Siming; his taking the primary seat to preach the Dharma was seen at Wuju and Xiangfu in Sanqu, Jiangshan in Jinling, and Huazang in Wuxi. Wherever he went, he raised and promoted the lineage's tenets, bare and naked, vivid and lively, roaming freely in all directions without the slightest hindrance. Yet throughout the twelve periods of the day, with every step he trod on solid ground: though not relying on cultivation and realization, he never forgot cultivation and realization; though not depending on vigor, he never slacked in vigor. A drop of water, a drop of ice—clear and shining, luminous and transparent. Consequently, monks throughout the realm gathered like clouds responding to a sound; when they met on the roads, they would say, 'Why not go pay homage to the Master?' His brilliance having become manifest, his renown reached the sovereign. In the fourth year of Chunxi, an imperial edict ordered him to reside at Jingshan, summoning him for an audience at Xuande Hall to inquire about the essentials of the Buddhadharma. When he opened the hall at Lingyin, the court again dispatched an imperial envoy to present incense, and the monastics and laity who watched were like a wall. In the seventh year, he was transferred from Jingshan to Lingyin; the Emperor personally wielded the imperial brush to inquire about the essentials of the Dharma, and further sent an attendant minister to question him on the four ailments in the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment. The Master responded to all with truthful words and received extremely gracious favor. In the eleventh year, he retired to Tiantong in his old age. On the twelfth day of the sixth month of the thirteenth year, he suddenly manifested a slight illness, sat in the lotus posture, and passed away. His age was sixty-nine, his monastic age was fifty-two, and he was interred to the east of the monastery.