佛祖歷代通載 14.22

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（十六　乙卯）　國師惠忠將終。耽源問。百年後有人問極則事作麼生。忠曰。幸自可憐生須要護身符子作麼。乃入辭代宗。代宗曰。師滅度後。弟子將何所記。忠曰。告檀越造取一所無縫塔。帝曰。請師塔樣。忠良久曰。會麼。帝曰。不會。忠曰。貧道去後有侍者應真。却知此事。以十二月九日右脇而寂。門弟子奉全身於黨子谷建塔。賜諡大證禪師。帝尋召應真入內。舉前語問之。真良久曰。聖上會麼。帝曰。不會。真述偈曰。湘之南潭之北。中有黃金充一國。無影樹下合同船。瑠璃殿上無知識。代宗嘗在便殿。指天下觀軍容使魚朝恩。謂忠曰。朝恩亦解些子佛法朝恩即問忠曰。何者是無明。無明從何而起。忠曰。佛法衰相今現。帝曰。何也。忠曰。奴也解問佛法。豈非衰相今現。朝恩色大怒。忠曰。即此是無明。無明從此起。朝恩復抗聲曰。有人言師今是佛得否。忠曰。朝廷有人言汝是天子果否。朝恩伏地曰。死罪死罪。朝恩實非天子。忠曰。我不是佛。所以二尊不並化。朝恩曰。師長作凡夫無成佛時耶。恩曰。我向後必當作佛。汝姓什麼。朝恩曰。姓魚。忠曰。我向後作佛不名惠忠。汝向後若作天子。改却姓莫不姓魚否。朝恩伏地曰。死罪死罪。朝恩此去實不敢向師論佛法。忠謂帝曰。幾帕殺此奴。

(16. Yimao) When National Preceptor Huizhong was about to pass away, Danyuan asked: 'A hundred years from now, if someone asks about the ultimate matter, what should I say?' Zhong said: 'We are fortunate enough to be lovely as we are; why must you need an amulet?' He then entered the palace to bid farewell to Daizong. Daizong asked: 'After the Master passes into extinction, what will this disciple use to remember you?' Zhong said: 'I ask the dānapati to build a seamless stūpa.' The Emperor said: 'Please give me the design of the Master's stūpa.' Zhong remained silent for a long while and said: 'Do you understand?' The Emperor said: 'I do not.' Zhong said: 'After this poor monk departs, my attendant Yingzhen will know this matter.' On the ninth day of the twelfth month, he entered extinction lying on his right side. His disciples enshrined his whole body and built a stūpa in Dangzi Valley. He was posthumously granted the title Chan Master Dazheng ('Great Verification'). The Emperor soon summoned Yingzhen to the inner palace and asked him about the earlier words. Zhen remained silent for a long while and said: 'Does Your Majesty understand?' The Emperor said: 'I do not.' Zhen spoke a verse: 'South of the Xiang and north of the Tan, / Between them is yellow gold filling a realm. / Beneath the shadowless tree we share the same boat; / Upon the lapis lazuli hall, there is no good friend.' Daizong was once in an informal palace hall, pointing to Yu Chao'en, Commissioner of Army Supervision Throughout the Realm, and saying to Zhong: 'Chao'en also understands a bit of the Buddha-Dharma.' Chao'en immediately asked Zhong: 'What is ignorance, and from whence does ignorance arise?' Zhong said: 'The sign of the decline of the Buddha-Dharma has now appeared!' The Emperor asked: 'Why?' Zhong said: 'Even a slave understands how to ask about the Buddha-Dharma; how is this not the sign of decline now appearing?' Chao'en's face flushed with great anger. Zhong said: 'This right here is ignorance; ignorance arises from this!' Chao'en again raised his voice and said: 'Someone said the Master is now a Buddha; is this true?' Zhong said: 'Someone at court said you are the Son of Heaven; is it really so?' Chao'en prostrated on the ground and said: 'A capital crime, a capital crime! Chao'en is truly not the Son of Heaven.' Zhong said: 'I am not a Buddha; therefore two World-Honoured Ones do not teach side by side.' Chao'en said: 'Master, will you remain an ordinary being forever, with no time when you become a Buddha?' Zhong said: 'In the future, I must become a Buddha. What is your surname?' Chao'en said: 'My surname is Yu.' Zhong said: 'When I become a Buddha in the future, I will not be named Huizhong. If you become the Son of Heaven in the future, will you change your surname, or will your surname still be Yu?' Chao'en prostrated on the ground and said: 'A capital crime, a capital crime! From now on, Chao'en truly dares not discuss the Buddha-Dharma with the Master.' Zhong said to the Emperor: 'I nearly scared this slave to death!'