佛祖歷代通載 15.6

15.6

時寒山子者。不知其氏族鄉里。隱於台州唐興縣寒岩。故父老以寒山子稱之。為人癯野。好冠樺皮冠著木屐。裘衲襤縷狀若風狂。笑歌自若。其所居近天台國清寺。寺僧豐干者。亦非常人也。每自薪水力於杵臼。以給眾用。與寒山子為方外友。先是豐干行赤城道中。聞兒啼草菜間。視之見孩童十餘歲。問其出處初無言對。心異之。引歸寺令掃除。以其得之於野。因名拾得。既長頭陀苦行精敏絕倫。甚為豐干寒山所器。與之偕遊。三人者相得歡甚。寺僧皆訝之。然中心疑而莫之省也。拾得日常滌器冀有殘䐹。著以筒留餌寒山。二子皆能詩。或時戲村保。寓事感懷輒有詩以見意。或書石壁。或樹葉間。或酒肆中。語皆超邁絕塵。雖古名流未能髣髴也。自述云元非隱逸士。自號山林人。在魯蒙白幘。旦愛裹疎巾。道有巢許操。恥為堯舜臣。獼猴罩帽子。非學辟風塵。又曰。欲得安居處。寒山可長保。微風吹幽松。近聽聲愈好。下有斑白人。喃喃誦黃老。十年歸不得。忘却來時道。又曰。有身與無身。是我復非我。如此審思量。遷延倚岩坐。足間青草生。頂上紅塵墮。以見世間人。靈床施酒果。又曰。玉堂掛珠簾。中有嬋娟子。顏貌勝神仙。容華若桃李。東家春霧合。西舍秋風起。更足三十年。還如甘蔗滓。其句語若此者甚夥。拾得甞掌供獻。至食時對佛而食。又於憍陳如像前訶斥之曰。小根敗種何為者耶。寺僧深怪之。不使直供。又伽藍神粥飯多為烏鳶所殘。拾得杖擊神而嫚罵曰。汝食猶不能護。焉能護伽藍乎。神遍夢寺僧曰。拾得鞭我。至旦互以語及。一一皆同。志是眾駭之。豐干出雲遊。貞元末閭丘胤出守台州。欲之官我病頭風。名醫莫差。豐干偶至其家。自謂善療此疾。閭丘聞而見之。干命水噀濡之。須臾所苦頓除。因是大喜甚加敬焉。問所從來。曰天台國清。曰彼有賢達者不。曰有之。然不可以世故求也。寒山拾得師利普賢示迹。二子混干國清。公若之官當就見。不宜後也。閭丘南來上事未久。入寺訪豐干遺迹。但見茆宇蕭條虎伏舍側。復入寺謁二大士。寺僧引至後厨。閭丘拜謁二大士。起走曰。饒舌彌陀汝不識。禮我何為。遽返寒岩。次日閭丘令遺贈。寒山見使至罵曰。賊賊。遂隱入岩石。拾得亦潛去。後不知終。

At that time there was Master Hanshan. No one knew his clan or home village. He lived in seclusion at Hanyan (Cold Rock) in Tangxing County, Taizhou; thus the elders called him Master Hanshan. In appearance he was emaciated and rustic. He liked to wear a birch-bark hat and wooden clogs, and his ragged fur coat and patched robes made him look like a madman. He laughed and sang as if nothing else mattered. His dwelling was close to Guoqing Monastery on Mount Tiantai. A monk of the monastery, Fenggan, was also an extraordinary man. He would fetch firewood and carry water himself, toiling at the mortar and pestle to supply the assembly, and was an otherworldly friend to Master Hanshan. Earlier, Fenggan had been walking along the road of Chicheng when he heard a child crying amid the grass and greens. Looking, he saw a boy of some ten years. When asked where he was from, he initially gave no answer. Feeling this was strange, he led him back to the monastery and had him sweep. Because he had found him in the wild, he named him Shide (Found). When he grew up, his ascetic dhūta practices were exceptionally acute and peerless, and he was deeply esteemed by Fenggan and Hanshan, who roamed together with him. The three of them enjoyed great mutual accord. The monks of the monastery all found them strange, yet in their hearts they were suspicious and did not understand them. Daily, Shide washed the vessels, hoping for leftover scraps of food, which he would put in a bamboo tube and keep as provisions for Hanshan. Both men were gifted at poetry. Sometimes, bantering in the villages and hamlets, whenever an event inspired their feelings, they would compose a poem to express their mind. They wrote them on rock walls, on tree leaves, or in wine shops. Their words were transcendent and extraordinary; even famous writers of old could not equal them. Hanshan said of himself in verse: / “Originally I was no reclusive scholar, / But called myself a dweller of the mountain woods. / In Lu, I covered my head with a white cap; / In the morning, I like to tie on a coarse headband. / In the Way, I have the integrity of Chao and Xu; / I would be ashamed to be a minister to Yao and Shun. / A monkey capped with a hat— / It is not that I study to escape the mundane world.” / He also said: / “If you wish to obtain a peaceful dwelling, / Cold Mountain can be kept for long. / A gentle breeze blows through the secluded pines; / Listening closely, the sound is all the finer. / Below sits a white-haired man, / Murmuring, chanting the Huang-Lao texts. / Ten years unable to return, / He has forgotten the road by which he came.” / He also said: / “Having a body or having no body, / Is it me, or is it not me? / Deliberating thus carefully, / Hesitating, I sit leaning against the rock. / Green grass sprouts between my feet; / Red dust falls on the crown of my head. / Thus I see people of the mundane world / Offering wine and fruit at the spirit bier.” / He also said: / “In the jade hall hangs a pearl curtain; / Inside is a lovely maiden, / Her countenance surpassing the immortals, / Her beauty like peaches and plums. / Over the eastern house spring mists gather; / Over the western lodge autumn winds arise. / After thirty more years have passed, / She will be just like sugarcane dregs.” / Lines such as these were very numerous. Shide once took charge of offerings; when it was mealtime, he would eat facing the Buddha image. He also reprimanded the image of Kauṇḍinya, saying: “You of inferior capacity and ruined seed, what are you doing here?” The monastery monks found him exceedingly strange and did not allow him to attend to the offerings. Furthermore, the gruel and rice for the monastery guardian deity was often pecked away by crows and kites. Shide struck the deity with a staff and reviled it, saying: “You cannot even protect your own food—how can you protect the monastery?” The deity appeared in dreams to all the monks of the monastery, saying: “Shide has whipped me.” At dawn, they spoke of it to each other, and all their stories were identical; from then on, the assembly was terrified of him. Fenggan went out on itinerant wanderings. At the end of the Zhenyuan era, Lüqiu Yin was appointed governor of Taizhou. When he was about to take up his post, he suffered from head-wind disease, which no famous physician could cure. Fenggan happened to come to his house and claimed he was skilled at treating this illness. Lüqiu heard of it and granted him an audience. Fenggan called for water and spurted it on him, and in an instant the affliction was suddenly eliminated. Lüqiu was overjoyed and revered him greatly. He asked where he came from, and Fenggan said: “Guoqing on Mount Tiantai.” He asked: “Are there any worthy and eminent figures there?” He replied: “There are, but they cannot be sought through worldly matters. Hanshan and Shide are manifestations of Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra. The two of them mix incognito at Guoqing. When you take up your post, you should go to see them; do not delay.” Not long after Lüqiu arrived in the south to take office, he went to the monastery to visit the traces left by Fenggan. He saw only a desolate thatched hut, with a tiger crouching beside it. He then entered the monastery to pay homage to the two Mahāsattvas. The monks led him to the rear kitchen. Lüqiu bowed and paid homage to them. The two Mahāsattvas sprang up and ran, saying: “You do not recognize the talkative Amitābha—why do you bow to us?” They hurried back to Hanyan. The next day, Lüqiu sent men with gifts for them. When Hanshan saw the emissary coming, he cursed: “Thieves, thieves!” and vanished into a rock. Shide also slipped away, and no one knew where they ended up.