萬善同歸集 1.4

1.4

智覺禪師，性晤機圓，才豐學際。曩生積習，與諸法以同符；今世流通，與諸佛而合契。念他已則如自己；觀他心則如自心。甞撰《萬善同歸集》上中下三卷，所以勸一切有緣者也。或朱紫名流、緇黃法系、善男善女、高行高才，但至恭而至勤，則無貴而無賤。寔利生之良藥，示求佛之要津，莫非括諸經、諸論之法言，作未覺、未知之先範。周旋勸導，謹密修持；永為梵花之權衡，宗門之準度云爾。

Chan Master Zhijue, whose nature was enlightened and whose faculty was rounded, possessed abundant talent and reached the bounds of learning. His accumulated habits from past lives tallied with all dharmas; his dissemination in the present age accorded with all Buddhas. He regarded others as himself; he contemplated others' minds as his own mind. He once composed the Collection on the Common Return of the Myriad Good Practices in three fascicles—upper, middle, and lower—in order to encourage all who have karmic affinity. Be they eminent figures in crimson and purple robes, lineages of the Dharma in black and yellow robes, good men and good women, those of lofty conduct and lofty talent: as long as they are utmost in reverence and utmost in diligence, there is no distinction between noble and base. It is truly a good medicine for benefiting living beings and a key ford showing how to seek the Buddha; it gathers the Dharma-words of various sūtras and various treatises to serve as an exemplar for those not yet awakened and not yet knowing. Encouraging and guiding in every way, observing cultivation with scrupulous care, it will forever remain the balance for Brahmā's flowers and the standard for the Chan lineage.