宏智禪師廣錄 9.5

9.5

When Tiantong was begging for food in Huangyan, Superior Yongxiang brought out portraits of the Six Generations of Patriarchs and entrusted me to compose eulogies for them. Investigating the reason why they became patriarchs: they directly illuminated the primary matter. The establishment of causal conditions is entirely the business of descendants. Did not the Patriarch say: 'Not walking in the same tracks as ordinary people and sages, transcendently he is named Patriarch'? The luxuriant branches and distant streams, responding to dynamic functions, wondrously attain the root source and naturally accord with it. This can be understood without words. Now, happily rejoicing and bowing my head, I offer this eulogy: