佛祖歷代通載 14.13

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（八　己酉）　牛頭惠忠禪師示寂。師得法於威師。為牛頭宗第六祖。平生一衲不易器用唯一鐺。嘗有供僧穀二廩。盜者窺伺虎為守。縣令張遜者入山頂謁。問師有何徒弟。曰有三五人。遜曰。可得見否。師敲床三下有三虎哮吼而出。遜驚怖而退。及移居莊嚴寺將建法堂。有古樹群鵲巢其上。師謂巢曰。此地建堂汝可速去。言訖群鵲遷巢他樹。及築基有二神人定其四角。潛資夜役不日而成。由是學徒雲集。師有安心偈曰。人法雙淨。善惡兩妄。直心真實。菩提道場。至是將終。石室前掛鐺樹掛衣藤無故枯死。師集眾布薩訖淨髮浴身。是夕有瑞雲覆其院。空中復有天樂之聲。詰旦怡然坐化。俄頃風雨暴作震折林木。有白虹貫于岩壑云。

(8. Jiyou [769 CE]) Chan Master Niutou Huizhong showed his passing. The master received the Dharma from Master Zhiwei and was the sixth patriarch of the Niutou school. Throughout his life, he never changed his single patch-robe and his only utensil was a single iron cauldron. He once had two granaries of grain offered to the Saṃgha; when thieves lurked in wait, tigers guarded them. The county magistrate Zhang Xun entered the mountain to pay him homage and asked, "What disciples does the master have?" He replied, "I have three to five." Xun said, "May they be seen?" The master knocked on the couch three times, and three tigers bounded out roaring. Xun retreated in terror. Later, when the master moved to Zhuangyan Monastery and was about to construct a Dharma hall, there was an ancient tree with a flock of magpies nesting in it. The master said to the nests, "A hall is to be built on this spot; you may leave quickly." When he finished speaking, the flock of magpies moved their nests to another tree. When laying the foundation, two spirits set its four corners, covertly assisting in the night's labor so that it was completed in no time. From this, students gathered like clouds. The master had a verse on calming the mind: 'Person and phenomena are both purified; / Good and evil are both forgotten. / The straight mind is the genuine; / This is the bodhimaṇḍa.' Approaching his end at this time, in front of his stone chamber the tree where he hung his cauldron and the vine where he hung his robe withered and died without cause. The master assembled the community, and after performing the poṣadha, he shaved his hair and bathed his body. That evening, auspicious clouds covered his courtyard, and in the air there was the sound of heavenly music. At dawn, he serenely passed away while seated. In an instant, wind and rain violently arose, snapping forest trees, and a white rainbow pierced the crags and ravines.