佛祖歷代通載 19.46

19.46

（三十一　甲申）　是歲蘄州五祖山法演禪師示寂。錦州巴西鄧氏。少落髮受具。遊成都講席。習百法唯識窺其奧。置之曰。膠柱安能鼓瑟乎。即日遊方。所至無足當其意者。抵浮山謁遠錄公。久之無所發明。遠曰。吾老矣。白雲端爐鞴不可失也。演唯諾。徑造白雲。端曰。川䖃苴汝來也。演拜而就列。一日舉僧問南泉摩尼珠語。以問端。端叱之。演領悟。汗流被體。乃獻投機頌云。山前一片閒田地。義手叮嚀問祖翁。幾度賣來還自買。為憐松竹引清風。端頷之曰。栗棘蓬禪屬子矣。演甞掌磨。有僧視磨急轉。指以問演。此神通耶。法爾耶。演褰衣旋磨一匝。師甞示眾云。古人道如鏡鑄像。像成後鏡在什麼處。眾下語不契。師作街坊。自外來。端舉似演。演前問訊曰。也不爭多。端笑曰。須是道者始得。初住四面還白雲。上堂云。汝等諸人見老和上鼓動唇舌竪起拂子。便作勝解。及乎山禽聚集牛動尾巴。却將作等閒。殊不知簷聲不斷前旬雨。電影還連後夜雷。又云。悟了同未悟。歸家尋舊路。一字是一字。一句是一句。自小不脫空。兩歲學移步。湛水生蓮華。一年生一度。又云。賤賣檐板漢。貼秤麻三斤。百千年滯貨。何處著渾身。張丞相謂其應機接物孤峭徑直。不犯刊削。其知言耶。應世四十餘年。晚住太平移東山。崇寧三年六月二十五日。上堂辭眾。時山門有土木之工。演躬自督役。誡曰。汝等好作息。吾不復來矣。歸方丈淨髮澡浴。旦日吉祥而逝。

(31. Jia-shen [1104]) In this year, Chan Master Fayan of Mount Wuzu in Qizhou manifested his passing into cessation. He was surnamed Deng, from Baxi in Jinzhou. He shaved his head and took full ordination in his youth. He traveled to the lecture seats of Chengdu, studied the *Śatadharmā* and Vijñapti-mātra, and fathomed their profundities. Setting them aside, he said, "How can one play the zither with the bridge glued down?" That very day he set out on pilgrimage. Wherever he went, none was sufficient to meet his intent. Arriving at Fushan, he paid homage to Venerable Yuanlu. After a long time with no breakthrough, Yuan said, "I am old. The forge of Baiyun Duan must not be missed." Yan assented. He went straight to Baiyun. Duan said, "Rustic bumpkin from Sichuan, have you come?" Yan bowed and took his place in the assembly. One day, he brought up the story of a monk asking Nanquan about the cintāmaṇi jewel to question Duan. Duan shouted at him. Yan had an awakening, and sweat covered his whole body. He then presented a verse matching his realization: / "Before the mountain lies a patch of idle land; / Hands clasped respectfully, I repeatedly ask the ancestral patriarch: / How many times has it been sold and bought back again? / All out of love for the pine and bamboo drawing in the cool breeze." / Duan nodded to him and said, "The chestnut-burr Chan belongs to you." Yan was once in charge of the mill. A monk watched the millstone turning rapidly, pointed to it, and asked Yan, "Is this a spiritual penetration, or is it the nature of things?" Yan hitched up his robe and walked around the millstone once. The master once addressed the assembly: "The ancients said: like a mirror casting an image, after the image is formed, where is the mirror?" The assembly's responses were not fitting. The master was serving as the warden of the monastic quarters and came in from outside. Duan presented the story to Yan. Yan stepped forward, bowed in inquiry, and said, "There is not much difference." Duan laughed and said, "It takes a person of the Way to manage this!" At first he resided at Simian and then returned to Baiyun. He ascended the hall and said: "You people see the old master moving his lips and tongue and raising the fly-whisk, and immediately construct superior understanding. When mountain birds flock together and the ox wags its tail, you treat it as ordinary. Little do you know that the sound from the eaves does not cease from the rain of the previous ten days, and the flash of lightning still connects to the thunder of the coming night." He also said: "Enlightened, one is the same as the unenlightened, / Returning home to seek the old road. / One character is one character, / One phrase is one phrase. / From youth never falling into emptiness, / At two years old learning to walk. / In clear water the lotus blossoms grow, / Blooming once a year." He also said: "Cheaply selling the fellow carrying the shoulder-pole, / Throwing in three pounds of flax on the scale. / The stuck cargo of hundreds and thousands of years— / Where can this whole body be placed?" Chancellor Zhang said of him that in responding to capacities and receiving people he was aloof, steep, direct, and straightforward, without suffering revision or trimming. How well he knew him! He responded to the world for more than forty years. In his later years he resided at Taiping and moved to Dongshan. On the twenty-fifth day of the sixth month in the third year of Chongning, he ascended the hall to take leave of the assembly. At that time the monastery gate was undergoing earth and timber construction. Yan supervised the labor in person and admonished them: "Do your work and rest well; I shall not return again." He returned to the abbot's quarters, shaved his head, and bathed. The next day, he passed away in the auspicious posture.