六祖大師法寶壇經 1.142

1.142

In the renzi year, the first year of the Taiji era, in the seventh month of the Yanhe era (in the fifth month of that year the era was changed to Yanhe; only in the eighth month, when Xuanzong ascended the throne, was the era changed to Xiantian, and in the following year it was changed to Kaiyuan; other texts that have Xiantian are mistaken), the Master ordered his disciples to go to Guo'en Monastery in Xinzhou to build a stūpa, and further urged them to hasten the work. It was completed at the end of the summer of the following year. On the first day of the seventh month, he assembled the disciples and said, "In the eighth month, I wish to depart from the world. If you have doubts, you must ask soon, so that I may break through your doubts and bring an end to your confusion. After I am gone, there will be no one to teach you." When Fahai and the others heard this, they all wept. Shenhui alone remained unmoved in his composure, and did not weep. The Master said, "Little master Shenhui alone has attained the equality of good and not good; he is unmoved by praise or blame, and neither grief nor joy arises in him. The rest of you have not attained this. After several years in the mountains, what Way have you been cultivating after all? For whom are you grieving and weeping today? If you worry that I do not know where I am going, I know where I am going myself. If I did not know where I am going, I would never have announced it to you in advance. You weep precisely because you do not know where I am going; if you knew where I am going, it would not be fitting to weep. Dharmatā originally has no arising, ceasing, going, or coming. All of you sit down; I will speak a gāthā for you, called the Gāthā of the Real and False, Motion and Stillness. If you recite and grasp this gāthā, you will share my intention, and practicing according to it, you will not lose the essential tenet." The assembly of monks made prostrations and requested the Master to speak the gāthā. The gāthā said: