佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 10.70

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圜悟禪師。評唱雪竇和尚頌古一百則。剖決玄微。抉剔幽邃。顯列祖之機用。開後學之心源。況妙智虛凝。神機默運。晶旭輝而玄扃洞照。圓蟾升而幽室朗明。豈淺識而能致極哉。後大慧禪師。因學人入室。下語頗異。疑之纔勘而邪鋒自挫。再鞠而納欵。自降曰。我碧巖集中記來。實非有悟。因慮其後不明根本。專尚語言以圖口捷。由是火之以救斯弊也。然成此書。火此書。其用心則一。豈有二哉。嵎中張明遠偶獲寫本後冊。又獲雪堂刊本及蜀本。校訂訛舛。刊成此書。流通萬古。使上根大智之士。一覽而頓開本心。直造無疑之地。豈小補云乎哉。延祐丁巳迎佛會日。徑山住持比丘。𭤔陵拜書以為後序。

Chan Master Yuanwu offered critical commentary on the one hundred verse eulogies on antiquity by Venerable Xuedou, resolving the mysterious and subtle, laying bare the deep and abstruse, revealing the dynamic functions of the successive patriarchs, and opening the mind-source of subsequent students. Moreover, his wondrous wisdom was purely concentrated, his divine dynamic function operated in secret; the blazing sun shone, fully illuminating the mysterious gateway; the full moon arose, clearly brightening the dark chamber. How could one of shallow understanding ever attain to such ultimate heights? Later, Chan Master Dahui, when a student entered his room and spoke quite unusually, doubted it; barely testing and examining him, the student's erroneous sharp dynamic faltered on its own. Upon being interrogated again, he confessed and surrendered himself, saying, "I memorized it from the Biyan ji; truly, I have had no awakening." Because [Dahui] worried that later people would fail to understand the root and solely prize words to pursue glibness of tongue, he consigned it to fire to remedy this defect. Yet compiling this book and burning this book proceeded from one and the same intent; how could there be two? Zhang Mingyuan of Yuzhong by chance obtained the latter fascicle of a manuscript, and also obtained the block-print edition of Xuetang as well as a Sichuan edition. Collating the errors and corruptions, he carved and printed this book to circulate it for ten thousand ages, so that people of superior capacity and great wisdom may, at a single glance, suddenly open to their original mind and directly reach the realm of no doubt. How could this be called of slight assistance? On the day of the Assembly Welcoming the Buddha, the dingsi year of Yanyou [1317]. Reverently written as an afterword by the bhikṣu Youling, abbot of Jingshan.