黃檗山斷際禪師傳心法要 1.3

1.3

有大禪師。法諱希運。住洪州高安縣黃檗山鷲峯下。乃曹溪六祖之嫡孫。西堂百丈之法姪。獨佩最上乘離文字之印。唯傳一心更無別法。心體亦空萬緣俱寂。如大日輪昇虛空中。光明照曜淨無纖埃。證之者無新舊無淺深。說之者不立義解不立宗主。不開戶牖直下便是。動念即乖。然後為本佛。故其言簡其理直。其道峻其行孤。四方學徒望山而趨。覩相而悟。往來海眾常千餘人。予會昌二年廉于鍾陵。自山迎至州。憩龍興寺。旦夕問道。大中二年廉于宛陵。復去禮迎至所部。安居開元寺。旦夕受法。退而紀之。十得一二。佩為心印不敢發揚。今恐入神精義不聞於未來。遂出之授門下僧大舟法建。歸舊山之廣唐寺。問長老法眾。與往日常所親聞。同異如何也。

There is a great Chan master whose dharma name is Xiyun, residing beneath Vulture Peak on Mount Huangbo in Gao'an County, Hongzhou. He is an immediate spiritual descendant of the Sixth Patriarch of Caoxi, and a dharma nephew of Xitang and Baizhang. He alone bears the seal of the supreme vehicle that transcends words. He transmits only the One Mind, with no other dharma besides. The mind-essence is also empty, and the myriad conditions are all still. It is like the great disc of the sun rising into empty space, its radiance shining brilliantly, pure without a speck of dust. Those who realize it find no new or old, no shallow or deep. Those who expound it establish no theoretical interpretations and set up no doctrinal school. Not opening doors or windows, right here it is. Stirring a thought is immediately to deviate. After that, one realizes original Buddha. Therefore his words are concise and his principles direct; his way is steep and his conduct solitary. Disciples from the four quarters look toward the mountain and hasten thither; seeing his presence, they awaken. The assembly like the sea, coming and going, is always over a thousand people. In the second year of Huichang [842 CE], while I was inspector at Zhongling, I invited him from the mountain to the prefecture and accommodated him at Longxing Monastery, questioning him about the Way morning and night. In the second year of Dazhong [848 CE], while inspector at Wanling, I again went with courtesy to invite him to my administrative seat, housing him at Kaiyuan Monastery, where I received the Dharma morning and night. After retiring, I recorded it, getting one or two parts out of ten. Bearing it as a mind seal, I did not dare publish it. Now, fearing that its spirit-penetrating, refined meaning might not be heard in the future, I have brought it forth and bestowed it upon the monks of his gate, Dazhou and Fajian, for them to return to the former mountain's Guangtang Monastery, and ask the venerable elders and the assembly of the Dharma how it agrees or differs with what they personally heard from him daily in former times.