宏智禪師廣錄 9.519

9.519

詔諡宏智禪師。塔曰妙光。參知政事周公葵。為之銘。凡師應世之跡。見於塔銘者。茲不復敘。嗚乎此特師之事業。可形於言者爾。若乃妙用縱橫。不痕不跡。全超空劫之前。洞徹威音之外。不可得而擬議者。又非文字之所能載也。

an imperial decree conferred the posthumous title 'Chan Master Hongzhi', and his stūpa was named Miaoguang. Lord Zhou Kui, Participant in Determining Governmental Matters, composed an inscription for it. As for the Master's traces of responding to the world that appear in the stūpa inscription, they are not repeated here. Alas, these are merely the Master's deeds that can take shape in words! As for his wondrous functioning in every direction, leaving no trace or footprint, entirely transcending what came before the kalpa of emptiness, thoroughly penetrating beyond Bhīṣmagarjitasvararāja, which cannot be deliberated or conceived—that is not something that words can record.