佛祖歷代通載 19.27

19.27

（十八　庚午）　蘇軾以龍圖閣學士知杭州。奏浚西湖際山為岸。杭人呼曰蘇公堤。紹聖四年。移謫儋州。至元符三年六月。歸自海外居常州。軾謫黃州日。築室東坡號居士。靖國元年辛巳七月廿八日卒。朝奉郎提舉成都五局觀。甞作佛印磨衲贊曰。長老佛印大師了元游京師。天子聞其名。以高麗所貢磨衲賜之。客有見而歎曰。嗚呼善哉未甞有也。甞試與子攝其齊衽循其鉤絡舉而振之。則東盡嵎夷。西及昧谷。南被交趾。北屬幽都。紛在吾箴孔線蹊之中矣。佛印听然而笑曰。甚矣子言之陋也。吾以法眼視之。一一箴孔有無量世界。一一世界滿中眾生所有毛孔所衣之衣。箴孔線蹊悉為世界。如是展轉經八十反。吾佛光明之所照。吾君聖德之所被。如以大海注一毛竅。如以大地塞一箴孔。曾何嵎夷昧谷交趾幽都之足云乎。當知此納。非大非小。非短非長。非重非輕。非薄非厚。非色非空。一切世間折膠墮指。此衲不寒。爍石流金。此衲不熱。五濁流浪劫火洞然。此納不壞。云何以有思惟心生下劣想。於是蜀人蘇軾聞而讚之曰。匣而藏之。見衲而不見師。衣而不匣。見師而不見衲。惟師與衲非一非兩。眇而視之。蟣虱龍象。

(18. Gengwu) Su Shi, as an Academician of the Longtu Pavilion, served as Prefect of Hangzhou. He petitioned to dredge the West Lake and build an embankment along the mountain edges, which the people of Hangzhou called 'Lord Su's Dike'. In the fourth year of Shaosheng, he was exiled to Danzhou. By the sixth month of the third year of Yuanfu, he returned from across the sea to reside in Changzhou. In the days when Shi was exiled to Huangzhou, he built a dwelling at Dongpo and took the style 'Dongpo Jushi' (Layman Dongpo). On the twenty-eighth day of the seventh month in the first year of Jingguo, xinsi, he passed away. As Court Gentleman for Consultation and Director of the Five Bureaus of Chengdu, he once composed the 'Eulogy on Foyin's Patchwork Robe': 'The Elder, Chan Master Foyin Liaoyuan, traveled to the capital. The Son of Heaven heard of his fame and bestowed upon him a patchwork robe presented as tribute by Korea. A guest saw it and sighed, saying: "Alas, how wonderful! Never has there been such a thing! Let me try to gather its hems and follow its clasps, lifting and shaking it: to the east it reaches the extremes of Yuyi, to the west it extends to the Valley of Darkness, to the south it covers Jiaozhi, and to the north it pertains to Youdu—all crowded within my needle-holes and thread-paths!" Foyin smiled broadly and said: "How vulgar is your speech! Viewing it with the Dharma eye, in every single needle-hole there are immeasurable worlds; every world is filled with sentient beings, and all the robes worn by their pores, as well as needle-holes and thread-paths, all become worlds. Unfolding successively like this through eighty turns, the light of my Buddha shines upon it, and the sage virtue of my sovereign covers it—like pouring the great ocean into a single pore, or stuffing the great earth into a single needle-hole! How could Yuyi, the Valley of Darkness, Jiaozhi, or Youdu even be worth mentioning? You should know that this patchwork robe is neither great nor small, neither short nor long, neither heavy nor light, neither thin nor thick, neither form nor emptiness. When in all the worldly realm glue snaps and fingers fall off, this robe is not cold; when stones are melted and gold is liquefied, this robe is not hot; when the five defilements drift and the kalpa fire blazes fiercely, this robe is not destroyed. Why give rise to base thoughts with a calculating mind?" Thereupon, Su Shi of Shu heard of this and eulogized it, saying: "Encase it and store it away: one sees the robe but not the master. Wear it and do not encase it: one sees the master but not the robe. Only the master and the robe are neither one nor two. Looking at it with squinted eyes: nit and louse, dragon and elephant."'