南宗頓教最上大乘摩訶般若波羅蜜經六祖惠能大師於韶州大梵寺施法壇經 1.57

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大師先天二年八月三日滅度。七月八日，喚門人告別。大師先天元年於新州國恩寺造塔，至先天二年七月告別。大師言：「汝眾近前，吾至八月，欲離世間，汝等有疑早問，為汝破疑，當令迷者盡悟，使汝安樂。吾若去後，無人教汝。」法海等眾僧聞已，涕淚悲泣。唯有神會不動，亦不悲泣。六祖言：「神會小僧，却得善不善等，毀譽不動。餘者不得，數年山中，更修何道？汝今悲泣，更憂阿誰？憂吾不知去處在？若不知去處，終不別汝。汝等悲泣，即不知吾去處；若知去處，即不悲泣。性體無生無滅，無去無來。」「汝等盡坐，吾與汝一偈：〈真假動靜偈〉，汝等盡誦取，見此偈意，與吾意同。依此修行，不失宗旨。」僧眾禮拜，請大師留偈，敬心受持。偈曰：

The Master entered parinirvāṇa on the third day of the eighth month of the second year of Xiantian. On the eighth day of the seventh month, he summoned his disciples to bid them farewell. In the first year of Xiantian, the Master had built a stūpa at Guo'en Monastery in Xinzhou, and in the seventh month of the second year of Xiantian, he bade farewell. The Master said: "Come forward, all of you! In the eighth month, I wish to depart from the world. If you have any doubts, ask them early; I will dispel your doubts for you, so that the deluded will all be awakened and you will find peace and happiness. After I am gone, there will be no one to teach you." When Fahai and the other monks heard this, they wept bitterly in sorrow. Shenhui alone was unmoved and did not weep. The Sixth Patriarch said: "The young monk Shenhui has nevertheless attained the equality of good and non-good, unmoved by blame or praise. The rest of you have not attained this; what path have you been cultivating for so many years in the mountains? For whom are you grieving now in tears? Do you worry that I do not know where I am going? If I did not know where I am going, I would never bid you farewell. In your weeping, you do not know where I am going; if you knew where I am going, you would not weep. The essence of the nature is without birth and without death, without going and without coming." "All of you sit down! I shall give you a verse: the 'Verse on the Real, the Unreal, Motion, and Stillness'. All of you recite and grasp it; if you see the meaning of this verse, your mind will be the same as mine. Cultivate in accordance with this, and you will not lose the essential tenet." The assembly of monks bowed, requested the Master to leave the verse, and respectfully received and upheld it. The verse said: