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From his youth he was broad-minded and compassionate; on the crown of his head a fleshy uṣṇīṣa grew, and his ears had double lobes. With the gaze of an elephant and the stride of an ox, he was naturally distinct from the ordinary world. In a dream, an Indian monk urged him to leave worldly life. He bade farewell to his parents and entered the Way. Once he received the full precepts, he ate only one meal a day and accepted no special donations. Hearing that Huiwen of the Northern Qi had gathered an assembly whose monastic rules were pure, he went to take refuge with him. He received the correct teaching from him, by nature delighting in austere asceticism and applying himself to monastic labor as his practice. Within three weeks he attained the knowledge of past lives, but his habit-energy of defilements was not yet exhausted. Later, while in meditation, he let his body recline toward the wall; before he touched it, he suddenly awakened to the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka samādhi. The Mahāyāna Dharma teachings were clearly understood in a single thought. The sixteen superior states and the eight liberations entered in turn; he thoroughly penetrated them by himself, not awakening through another. He instructed the assembly, saying: "The source of the Way is not far; the ocean of nature is not distant. Only seek toward yourself; do not search from another. Searching, you will not find it; finding it, it is not real." Later, at Mount Dasu, harassed by beacon-fire alarms, the mountain community could not abide in peace. Leading more than forty monks, he went straight to Mount Nanyue. It was the twenty-third day of the sixth month in the second year of Guangda of the Chen dynasty \[568 CE\]. Upon arriving, he announced: "My stay here will be ten years and no more." Prior to this, the Liang dynasty monk Huihai had resided at Hengyue Temple; when he saw the Master, he joyfully yielded it to him. At that time he was called the Great Master Si. Someone asked: "Why do you not go down the mountain to transform sentient beings?" Si answered: "All Buddhas of the three periods have been swallowed down in one mouthful by me; what sentient beings are there to transform?" Once he was indisposed, whereupon he contemplated: "Illness arises from karma; karma arises from the mind. When conditions of the mind do not arise, what appearance can external objects have? Karmic disease and the body are both like clouds and shadows." Having made this contemplation, his body immediately became light and tranquil. Emperor Gaozu of the Chen summoned him to the capital and accommodated him at Xixuan Temple, consulting and saluting him with great reverence. After some time, he took leave to return to Nanyue. The Master said: "My temporary stay on this mountain was to be only ten years; when the period is complete, I must depart." At the time, the assembly did not understand his meaning. When he returned, he gathered his disciples in large numbers, expounding the Dharma for successive days and reprimanding them with urgent sternness, so that those who heard him were chilled to the heart. On the twenty-second day of the sixth month in the dingyou year, the ninth year of Dajian of the Chen dynasty \[577 CE\], all smelled an extraordinary fragrance. The Master further collected his mind and sat upright in meditation. Until his passing, the crown of his head was warm, his body soft, and his complexion as if alive. His worldly age was sixty-four. The Master maintained the three collections of pure precepts of a bodhisattva. As for silks, wadding, and leather, because they mostly result from harming life, his garments were entirely made of coarse cloth. In cold weather, he wore mugwort-padded patch-robes to withstand wind and frost. As for the Dharma robes he wore, none was made of silk from silkworms. Even if all had received the precepts, it was not said that this was allowable. If one begged for or obtained silkworm silk to make robes, according to the disciplinary articles it was definitively rejected. Restraining desires and greed, how could one indulge them? Only Nanyue alone made this resolute decision, loftily honoring the holy standards. Those who now claim his lineage indulge in colorful skirts and madder-dyed robes, prizing fresh splendor—can they be without shame? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.22) - [Next: 10.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.24) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036~en-mt.10.23) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [明覺禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1996.1.36) — Classical Chinese - [天台九祖傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2069.1.6) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.10.23) · Pramāṇa