佛祖歷代通載 17.102

17.102

（廿七）　福州長慶惠稜禪師示寂。杭之鹽官人。姓孫氏。幼歲稟性淳淡。年十三於蘇州通玄寺出家登戒。歷參禪肆。唐乾符五年入閩中。謁西院訪靈雲。尚有凝滯。乃之雪峯。因問。從上諸聖傳受一路。請垂指示。峯默然。師設禮而退。峯莞爾而笑。異日雪峯謂師曰。我尋常向師僧道。南山有一條鼈鼻蛇。汝諸人好看取。對曰。今日大有人喪身失命。峯然之。師入方丈參。雪峯曰。是什麼。師曰。今日天晴好普請。自此酬問未嘗爽於玄旨。乃述頌曰。萬象之中獨露身。唯人自肯乃方親。昔時謬向途中覓。今日看如火裏氷。師來往雪峯二十九載。至天祐三年。受泉州刺史王延彬請。住招慶。後閩帥請居長樂府之西院。奏額曰長慶。號超覺大師。上堂良久謂眾曰。還有人相悉麼。若不相悉欺謾兄弟去。只今有什麼事。莫要窒塞也無。復是誰家屋裏事。不肯當荷更待何時。若是利根參學。不到這裏來。會麼。如今有一般行脚人。耳裏總滿也假饒收拾底還當諸人行脚事麼。廣說具如傳燈錄。師兩處開法。徒眾一千五百。化行閩越二十七載。後唐長興三年壬辰五月十七日歸寂。壽七十有九。臘六十。

[27] Chan Master Huileng of Changqing in Fuzhou manifested his entry into cessation. He was a native of Yanguan in Hangzhou, surnamed Sun. In his youth, his nature was pure and untroubled. At the age of thirteen, he underwent pravrajyā and received the precepts at Tongxuan Monastery in Suzhou. He visited and studied in various Chan quarters. In the fifth year of the Qianfu era of the Tang, he entered the region of Min. He called upon Xiyuan and visited Lingyun, but still harbored obscurities and hesitations. He then went to Xuefeng and asked, "Regarding the single path transmitted and received by all the sages from above, please bestow instruction." Xuefeng remained silent. The Master bowed and withdrew. Xuefeng smiled gently. Another day, Xuefeng said to the Master, "I usually say to the monks, 'There is a blunt-nosed snake on the Southern Mountain; all of you should look closely.'" [The Master] replied, "Today a great many people have lost their lives." Xuefeng approved of this. When the Master entered the abbot's quarters to consult him, Xuefeng said, "What is this?" The Master replied, "Today the weather is clear, good for communal labor." From then on, in his responses to questions, he never failed to meet the profound purport. He then composed a verse: / "Within the myriad phenomena, the body alone is revealed; / Only when one acknowledges it oneself does it then become intimate. / In the past, I mistakenly sought it along the road; / Today, seeing it is like ice inside fire." / The Master traveled back and forth to Xuefeng for twenty-nine years. In the third year of the Tianyou era, he accepted the invitation of Wang Yanbin, Prefect of Quanzhou, to reside at Zhaoqing. Later, the Military Commissioner of Min invited him to dwell at the West Monastery of Changle Prefecture, which petitioned for the plaque reading "Changqing." He was titled Great Master Chaojue. Ascending the hall, after a long silence he said to the assembly: "Does anyone still understand? If you do not understand, you are deceiving your brothers. Right now, what matter is there? Could it be obstructed? Furthermore, whose household affair is this? If you are unwilling to take it up, what are you waiting for? If one is of sharp faculties and studies through inquiry, one does not come here. Do you understand? Nowadays there is a sort of itinerant monk: though their ears are completely filled, even if they manage to retain it, does that amount to the business of your itinerancy?" The full account is detailed in the Chuandeng lu. The Master established teachings in two places, with fifteen hundred followers. His transformative guidance circulated in Min and Yue for twenty-seven years. On the seventeenth day of the fifth month in the renchen year, the third year of the Changxing era of the Later Tang, he returned to cessation, aged seventy-nine, with sixty rains retreats.