勅修百丈清規 8.57

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叢林規範百丈大智禪師已詳。但時代濅遠。後人有從簡便遂至循習。雖諸方或有不同。然亦未嘗違其大節也。余處眾時。往往見朋輩抄錄叢林日用清規。互有虧闕。後因暇日悉假諸本。參其異存其同而會焉。親手繕寫頗為詳備。目曰叢林校定清規總要。釐為上下卷。庶便觀覽。吾氏之有清規猶儒家之有禮經。禮者從宜因時損益。此書之所以繼大智而作也。是皆前輩宿德先後共相講究紀錄。愚不敢私以所聞所見。而增減之。如前所謂參其異存其同而會焉爾耳。觀者幸勿病。諸咸淳十年甲戌歲結制前二日。后湖比丘惟勉書于寄玩軒。

The monastic standards were already detailed by Chan Master Dazhi of Baizhang. However, as the times grew distant, later generations followed convenience and gradually fell into routine habits; although there may have been differences among the various quarters, they never violated the major principles. When I lived among the assembly, I often saw fellow companions transcribing the daily pure rules of the monastic groves with mutual omissions and defects. Later, taking advantage of leisure days, I borrowed all the various editions, compared their differences, preserved their commonalities, and synthesized them. Personally transcribing them by hand, they became quite comprehensive, entitled 'General Essentials of the Collated Pure Rules for Monastic Groves' and divided into upper and lower fascicles, so as to facilitate perusal. Our school having pure rules is like the Ruists having the Classic of Rites: rites adapt to what is appropriate and increase or decrease according to the times. This book was composed to follow Dazhi for this reason. These were all investigated and recorded jointly by senior elders of earlier generations; I dare not privately add to or subtract from them based on what I have personally seen and heard, but merely, as stated before, compared their differences, preserved their commonalities, and synthesized them. May readers not find fault with it. Written by the bhikṣu Weimian of Houhu at the Jiwan Pavilion, two days before the start of the summer retreat in the jiaxu year, the tenth year of Xianchun.