人天眼目 2.64

2.64

夫真實之理。證成法身。照用之功。作為報土。諸佛之本因既爾。諸祖之洪範亦然。五部分宗。萬派之精藍碁布。一燈分焰。十方之法席鱗差。又華嚴經云。如來不出世。亦無有涅槃。昔靈山會上。世尊以青蓮目瞬示四眾。無能領其密意。惟大迦葉。獨領解佛旨。經云。佛告大迦葉云。吾有正法眼藏涅槃妙心。付囑與汝。汝當流布勿令斷絕。又臨涅槃告阿難言。十二部經。汝當流通。告優波離言。一切戒律。汝當奉持（一作受持）付大迦葉偈云。法本法無法。無法法亦法。今付無法時。法法何曾法。於是大迦葉。持佛袈裟。於雞足山中。入寂滅定。待慈氏下生。兩手分付（古德著語云。鳥棲無影樹。花發不萌枝。四海波濤淨。一輪明月天）。

Now, the real principle realizes and accomplishes the Dharmakāya; the function of illumination and operation acts as the reward land. Such was the fundamental cause of the Buddhas, and so too was the grand standard of the patriarchs. Divided into five branches, the pure monasteries of ten thousand streams are laid out like go pieces; a single lamp divides its flames, and the Dharma seats of the ten directions are arranged like fish scales. Furthermore, the Avataṃsaka Sūtra says, "The Tathāgata does not appear in the world, nor does he have nirvāṇa." Formerly, at the assembly on Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa, the World-Honoured One twitched his blue-lotus eyes and showed [a flower] to the fourfold assembly, yet none could comprehend his secret meaning. Only Mahākāśyapa alone understood the Buddha's intent. The sūtra says: The Buddha said to Mahākāśyapa, "I have the treasury of the true Dharma eye, the marvelous mind of nirvāṇa; I entrust it to you. You should propagate it and not allow it to be cut off." Furthermore, when approaching nirvāṇa, he said to Ānanda, "You should circulate the twelve divisions of scriptures." He said to Upāli, "You should uphold all the monastic precepts." The verse of transmission to Mahākāśyapa says:
"The fundamental Dharma of the Dharma is no-dharma;
The Dharma of no-dharma is also Dharma.
Now when transmitting the no-dharma,
How has the Dharma of dharmas ever been a Dharma?"
Thereupon Mahākāśyapa took the Buddha's kaṣāya and entered the samādhi of cessation on Mount Kukkuṭapāda, awaiting the descent and birth of Maitreya to hand it over with both hands. (An ancient master's capping phrase says, "A bird perches in a shadowless tree; a flower blooms on a budless branch. The waves of the four seas are still; the sky holds a single round of the bright moon.")