人天眼目 6.142

6.142

是書之所由作者。備見於晦岩物初兩翁序跋矣。雖然。趙宋全盛之時。南詢衲子傳寫。而非無烏焉成馬之誤。爰有了郜禪人。銳意克正。始自傳燈以下。至於五家宗派尊宿別錄莫不傍羅曲探點對校讎。遂成真本。所謂孟氏之功。不在禹下者乎。淨智道人。希顏慕藺。命工鏤板。以壽其傳。其用心亦可謂勤矣。學者儻思所以扁曰人天眼目。則功不浪施耳。

The reasons for the composition of this book are fully seen in the prefaces and colophons of the two venerable masters, Huiyan and Wuchu. Nevertheless, during the flourishing era of the Zhao Song dynasty, when southern-seeking patch-robed monks transcribed it, errors like mistaking 'wu' and 'yan' for 'ma' were not absent. Thereupon the Chan practitioner Liaogao, with a determined mind to correct them, began from the Chuandeng [lu] downward, proceeding to the separate records of the venerable elders of the five houses and lineages, exhaustively consulting, delving into, puncturing, and collating every one of them, and thereby completed an authentic version. Is this not what is called: 'Master Meng's merit was not inferior to that of Yu'? The Daoist of Jingzhi, aspiring to Yan Hui and admiring Lin Xiangru, ordered artisans to engrave the printing blocks in order to grant it enduring transmission. His employment of mind may indeed be called diligent. If students should reflect on why it was titled Rentian yanmu, then this effort will not have been exerted in vain.