佛祖歷代通載 20.142

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（三十三）　資壽尼無著禪師入寂。師諱妙總。姓蘇氏。父中大夫。象先南徐丞相實大父也。年甫十五。忽念曰。吾生身何來。死復何去。良久脫然有得。初不以為意。長適毘陵許氏。不膠世故志慕空宗。以禪寂為進修。時惠嚴圓公嗣圓照佚居普門。乃扣以出世間法。機感相契。次見關西智寂室光真歇了。問答如流。咸敬異之。偶夫壽源官嘉禾。大惠至郡。源具飯以迎。師出禮拜無一言。大惠退謂給事馮公濟川曰。許司理閣中曾見神見鬼。但未遇本分鉗鎚。如萬斛舟置之絕潢斷港。莫能轉動。馮曰。何言之易耶。惠曰。他若回頭定須別也。次日道俗請惠說法。師與會。惠痛抵諸方異見邪解。聽者駭顧。師獨喜見眉睫間。既下座。師請道號。惠以無著號之。且示以偈。盡道山僧愛罵人。未曾罵著一箇漢。只有無著罵不動。恰似秦時𨍏轢鑽。既罵不動。為什麼似𨍏轢鑽。具眼者辨。越明年師登徑山隨眾坐夏。濟川亦在焉。惠上堂。舉石頭恁麼不恁麼總不得語。馮曰。厶會得也。惠徵之。馮著語曰。恁麼也得。蘇盧薩婆訶。不恁麼也不得。悉哩薩婆訶。恁麼不恁麼總不得。蘇盧悉哩薩婆訶。惠舉馮語似師。師曰。人謂郭象註莊子。却是莊子註郭象。惠雖異其言但默而不顧。且欲激其遂到。忽一日正危坐間。豁然大悟洞見大惠委曲相為處。不覺撫掌厲聲曰。這老賊老賊。遂呈頌云。驀然築著鼻頭伎倆氷消瓦解。達磨何必西來。二祖枉施三拜。更問。如何若何。一隊草賊大敗。惠亦以偈印之。汝既悟活祖師意。一刀兩段直下了。臨機一一任天真。世出世間無剩少。我作此偈為證明。四聖六凡盡驚擾。碧眼胡僧猶未曉。時卍庵顏公首眾。與一千七百衲子。咸以偈餞其歸。且賀法門之得人也。馮公猶未之信。舟過無錫。問師。岩頭為渡子時婆生七子話。徑山稱道人會得。作如何會。師云。已上所供並是詣實。仍以偈明之。有以禮部僧牒無著師號為施者。師說偈受之。祝髮披緇克遂初志。紹興壬午年也。時張公安國守吳門。資壽虛席。張盡禮迎請。乃開堂於萬壽寺。拈香為大惠之嗣。提唱具於語錄。乾道六年七月十四日。集眾說偈畢撼之則已去矣。年七十六。全身葬於無錫軍將山東。紹定庚寅閏二月末。遷葬於平江虎丘之東北。庵曰達本。奉塔藏之。

(33) The nun Chan Master Zishou Wuzhuo entered quiescence. Her taboo name was Miaozong, and her surname was Su. Her father was Grand Master of the Palace (Zhongdafu); Xiangxian, Chancellor of Nanxu, was her grandfather. When she had just reached fifteen, she suddenly reflected: "From where did my living body come, and where will it go at death?" After a long while, she had an unencumbered realization, but at first did not make much of it. Grown up, she married into the Xu clan of Piling. Not entangling herself in worldly affairs, her aspiration longed for the School of Emptiness, taking Chan quiescence as her cultivation and practice. At that time, Master Huiyan Yuan, an heir of Yuanzhao, lived in retirement at Pumen; she knocked at his gate regarding supramundane dharmas, and their functioning was mutually harmonious. Next she saw Zhiji, Shiguang, and Zhenxie Liao west of the Pass. Her questions and answers flowed like water; all respected and marveled at her. It happened that her husband, Shouyuan, served as an official in Jiahe. When Dahui arrived in the prefecture, Shouyuan prepared a meal to welcome him. The master came out, paid homage, and spoke not a word. Dahui retired and said to Gentleman-in-Attendance Feng Jichuan: "Inside Court Assessor Xu's chamber, she has seen gods and ghosts, but has not yet met the proper hammer and tongs; she is like a ten-thousand-bushel boat placed in a dry pool and broken tributary, unable to turn." Feng said, "Why do you make light of it?" Hui said, "If she turns her head, she will certainly be extraordinary." The next day, monastics and laity invited Hui to preach the Dharma; the master attended the assembly. Hui trenchantly refuted the heterodox views and false understandings of various regions; the listeners looked at one another in alarm, but the master alone showed joy in her countenance. After stepping down from the seat, the master requested a religious name; Hui gave her the name Wuzhuo ("Without Attachment") and instructed her with a verse:
"All say the mountain monk loves to scold people,
Yet he has never scolded a single fellow;
Only Wuzhuo cannot be moved by scolding,
Just like an awl for an axle-tree in Qin times.
Since she cannot be moved by scolding,
Why is she like an awl for an axle-tree?
Those with eyes, discern!"
The following year, the master climbed Mount Jing to sit the summer retreat with the assembly; Jichuan was also there. Hui ascended the hall and cited Shitou's words: "'Thus' won't do; 'not thus' won't do; neither will do at all." Feng said, "I understand." Hui challenged him; Feng supplied the words: "'Thus' will do—sulu suopohe! 'Not thus' will not do—xili suopohe! 'Thus' and 'not thus' won't do at all—sulu xili suopohe!" Hui cited Feng's words to the master. The master said, "People say Guo Xiang annotated Zhuangzi; rather, it was Zhuangzi who annotated Guo Xiang." Although Hui found her words extraordinary, he remained silent without looking back, wishing to spur her to complete breakthrough. Suddenly one day, while sitting erect, she had a great awakening, thoroughly seeing Dahui's painstaking concern for her. Unconsciously clapping her hands, she cried out in a loud voice, "This old thief, this old thief!" She then presented a verse, saying:
"Suddenly bumping into my nose, my tricks thawed like ice and broke like tiles;
Why did Bodhidharma need to come from the west?
The Second Patriarch made three prostrations in vain.
If you ask further, 'How? What?'—
A band of common bandits suffers total defeat."
Hui also authenticated her with a verse:
"Since you have awakened to the living meaning of the Patriarch,
With one stroke of the blade, cut in two, you have immediately finished.
Facing the occasion, each and every thing accords with native genuineness;
In the world and beyond the world, nothing is lacking or spare.
I compose this verse as proof;
The four sages and six kinds of commoners are all startled and stirred,
And the blue-eyed barbarian monk still does not understand."
At that time, Wan'an Yan led the assembly, and together with one thousand seven hundred patch-robed monks, they all presented verses to send her off on her return, and to celebrate the Dharma Gate's gaining of such a person. Lord Feng still did not believe it. When her boat passed Wuxi, he asked the master: "Regarding the case of Yantou as a ferryman, where the old woman gave birth to seven sons, Mount Jing declared that you understood it; how do you understand it?" The master said, "All that was offered above is entirely truthful," and further clarified it with a verse. Someone made an offering of a monastic ordination certificate from the Ministry of Rites with the title of Master Wuzhuo; the master spoke a verse and accepted it. Shaving her head and donning dark robes, she successfully fulfilled her original aspiration; it was the renwu year of Shaoxing. At that time, Lord Zhang Anguo was the prefect of Wumen. Zishou's seat was vacant, and Zhang invited her with full etiquette; she then opened the hall at Wanshou Monastery, offering incense as the Dharma heir of Dahui. Her expositions are fully recorded in her recorded sayings. On the fourteenth day of the seventh month in the sixth year of Qiandao, having assembled the community and finished speaking her verse, when they shook her, she was already gone. Her age was seventy-six. Her whole body was buried east of Mount Junjiang in Wuxi. At the end of the leap second month of the gengyin year of Shaoding, she was reinterred northeast of Tiger Hill in Pingjiang. The hermitage was called Daben, and a stupa was erected to enshrine her.