佛祖歷代通載 20.141

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（三十二）　佛光道悟禪師。俗姓冠氏。陝右蘭州（金國）人。生而有齒。年十六自欲出家。父母不聽。乃不食數日許之祝髮。後二年自臨洮歸於彎子店宿。夜夢梵僧喚覺。適聞馬嘶。豁然大悟。歸家喜不自勝。吟唱云。見也羅。見也羅。遍虛空。只一箇。告其母曰。我拾得一物。其母於囊橐中尋索不見。問是何物。師曰。我自無始以來不見了底物。其母不省。他日欲遊諸方。鄉人送者求頌。有水流須到海。鶴出白雲頭之句。至熊耳果遇白雲禪師海公。先是人問海。何不擇法嗣。海亦作頌。有芝蘭秀發獨出西秦之語。比師之至。夜聞空中人言。來日接郭相公。黎明海呼僧行。令持香花接我關西弟子。寺乃唐郭子儀建。今渠自來住持也。既至一言相契。徑付衣盂。寺前甞有剽而殺人者。來告急。師呼眾擒之曰。即汝是賊。尋得其巢穴。賊眾請命。師與其要言而釋之。路不拾遺者數十年。人以此益信師之前身汾陽王也。大定二十四年。白雲既沒。師開堂出世。拈香於鄭州之普照。復駐錫于三鄉竹閣庵。時著白衣跨牛橫笛游於洛川。人莫之測。甞謂人曰。道我是凡。向聖位裏去。道我是聖。向凡位裏去。道我不是聖不是凡。才向毘盧頂上有些行履處。泰和五年結夏於臨洮之大勢寺。開圓覺經。升座偶曰。此席止講得一半去在。至五月十二日晚參。翌日早盥嗽畢呼侍者。我病也。尋藥去。侍者之未及門。師已臥逝。方丈上有五色雲。如寶蓋。中有紅光如日者三。春秋五十有五。僧臘三十有九。

(32) Chan Master Foguang Daowu: his secular surname was Guan, a native of Lanzhou in the western part of Shaanxi (under the Jin dynasty). He was born with teeth. At sixteen, he desired on his own to leave home (pravrajyā). His parents refused, but after he fasted for several days, they permitted his shaving of the head. Two years later, returning from Lintao, he lodged at the Wanzi Inn. In the night, he dreamed of an Indian monk waking him. Just then, hearing a horse neigh, he experienced a great and sudden awakening. Returning home, his joy was boundless. He chanted aloud, saying:
"I see it, oh! I see it, oh!
Throughout empty space,
Only this single one!"
He told his mother, "I have picked up an object." His mother searched his pouches and bags but found nothing. She asked what thing it was. The master said, "It is the thing that since beginningless time I had lost and not seen." His mother did not understand. On another day, wishing to travel to various regions, the villagers seeing him off requested a verse. It contained the lines:
"Water flowing must reach the sea;
The crane emerges above the white clouds."
When he reached Xiong'er, he indeed met Chan Master Baiyun Haigong. Prior to this, someone had asked Hai why he did not choose a Dharma heir; Hai had also composed a verse containing the phrase: "The irises and orchids thrive, emerging singularly from Western Qin." When the master was about to arrive, Hai heard a voice in the air at night say, "Tomorrow welcome Minister Guo." At dawn, Hai summoned the monastics and ordered them to hold incense and flowers to welcome his disciple from west of the Pass. The monastery was originally built by Guo Ziyi of the Tang; now he himself had come to serve as abbot. Once he arrived, they tallied with a single word, and Hai directly entrusted him with the robe and bowl. In front of the monastery, there had once been someone who robbed and murdered. Someone came to report the emergency. The master summoned the assembly, seized him, and said, "You are the bandit." Soon they located their den. The bandit band begged for their lives; the master made a compact with them and released them. For several decades thereafter, no one picked up dropped items on the roads. Because of this, people were all the more convinced that the master was the former incarnation of the Prince of Fenyang. In the twenty-fourth year of Dading, after Baiyun had passed away, the master opened his hall to appear in the world, offering incense at Puzhao in Zhengzhou. He later stayed at the Zhuge Hermitage in Sanxiang. At times, wearing white clothing, astride an ox, and playing a flute crosswise, he roamed along the Luo River; no one could fathom him. He once told people: "If you say I am ordinary, I head toward the realm of the sages; if you say I am a sage, I head toward the realm of the ordinary; if you say I am neither sage nor ordinary, only then is there a place for some stepping atop the crown of Vairocana." In the fifth year of Taihe, he held the summer retreat at Dashi Monastery in Lintao. He opened the Scripture of Complete Enlightenment. Ascending the seat, he remarked offhandedly, "This gathering will only get through half of the lecturing." On the twelfth day of the fifth month, there was the evening instruction. The next morning, having finished washing and rinsing, he called his attendant: "I am ill; go seek medicine." Before the attendant reached the door, the master was already lying down and had passed away. Above the abbot's quarters there were five-colored clouds like a jeweled canopy, within which were three red lights like the sun. His springs and autumns were fifty-five; his monastic years (vassa) were thirty-nine.