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His surname was Li, his mother was née Zhao, and he was a native of Xizhou. On the evening of the master's birth, light issued from the house, and everyone marvelled at it. At age seven, he could recite several thousand words of texts daily and was versed in the Five Classics. His father, Zongdao, had him enter monastic life. He received tonsure under Benzong at Jingming Temple in the same commandery and received the full precepts under Zhiqiong at Ciyun Temple in Jinzhou. At age eighteen, he set out to travel on foot to various quarters. Taking leave of his grandfather, he said, "If I do not elucidate the Great Matter, I vow never to return!" When he arrived between Jin and Jiang, someone tried to thwart the master because he had no official travel permit. The magistrate of the district, seeing that the master was exceptionally talented, showed him the folding fan he was holding and said, "Offer a turning word for me." The master immediately took up a brush and wrote a verse upon it. Greatly pleased, the magistrate requested a permit for him so he could travel. He crossed the Yellow River to Luoyang and paid respects to Cheng of Kumu in Ruzhou. At that time, Danxia Zichun's reputation in the Way was at its height, so he went to him. He asked, "What is oneself before the empty kalpa?" Jue said, "The frog at the bottom of the well swallows the moon; / At midnight, it borrows not the night-shining screen." Danxia said, "Not yet; say it again." Jue hesitated. Danxia gave him a blow with the whisk and said, "And you still say you borrow not!" Jue suddenly had an awakening and bowed. Danxia said, "Why do you not utter a phrase?" Jue said, "Today I have lost money and suffered punishment." Danxia said, "I have no time to strike you; be off for now!" He was twenty-three years of age at the time. When Danxia retired to Dacheng in Tangzhou, he also followed him there. In the second year of Xuanhe, Danxia moved to Dahong and made him secretary for three years. When he was promoted to head seat, Jinsu Zhi, Xuedou Zong, Baofu Wu, and Fengshan Zhao all followed him as students. He also shared the seat under the assembly of Yuantong Zhao the "Icchantika". When Zhenxie resided at Changlu, he invited him to occupy the head seat. At that time, the assembly exceeded one thousand seven hundred. Seeing him take up the whisk and offer instruction, they all submitted to him. He became abbot at Puzhao in Sizhou, succeeding to the Dharma of Danxia. Previously, half of the temple had been partitioned off as a Shenxiao Daoist Palace, and furthermore, both Huai regions had suffered successive famines so that the kitchen was empty. What was needed for the two meals had to be mixed with beans and wheat. Once he arrived, he ordered that pure nonglutinous rice be used. The monastic storekeeper demurred that supplies were inadequate, but soon afterwards alms offerings piled up in abundance. When Emperor Huizong made an imperial tour to the south, Jue led the assembly to pay respects. Seeing more than a thousand monks of the temple crowding the left side of the road with their deportment disciplined and solemn, the Emperor marveled at it. An imperial decree summoned him to receive the imperial words in person and restored the half of the former temple to them. Early in the Jianyan era, he resided at Taiping in Shu, and then moved to Yuantong Nengren in Jiang. Relinquishing his duties, he traveled to Yunju to pay respects to Yuanwu. It happened that the abbot's seat at Changlu became vacant, and the great assembly insisted on having the master. Yuanwu, together with the Prince of Anding Commandery, urged him to accept. Not long after he entered the temple, the great bandit Li Zai was plundering the borders and led his band into the temple. The assembly was terrified and dispersed, but the master sat calmly in the hall and transformed them with wholesome words. Li Zai and the others bowed their heads in respectful submission, waved away their troops, presented gold to provide for the assembly, and the entire region relied on this to be preserved in peace. In the third year of Jianyan, he crossed the Zhejiang River to Mingzhou to pay homage at Potalaka. His road went past Tiantong, which happened to lack an abbot. When the assembly saw the master arrive, they secretly reported to the commandery commander; at first he declined, but afterwards consented. Soon afterwards, the Jurchen invaders raided the borders, and the monks were distressed and scattered. The master alone awaited their coming. When the invaders arrived, he climbed the ridge to watch; appearing to see something, they thereupon withdrew their troops and retreated without harming a single autumn hair. People sighed and considered it divine assistance. In the ninth month, he received an imperial decree to reside at Lingyin; when he was about to depart, the fourfold assembly wept in yearning, and hundreds of birds mourned. In the tenth month, an imperial decree directed him to return once more to Tiantong. In all, it was nearly thirty years, and of the monastery's several thousand rooms, none were not renewed. In the autumn of the twenty-seventh year of Shaoxing, the ninth month, he took leave of the commandery commander and various donors. On the seventh day of that month, he returned to the mountain and fed the guests as usual. On the chen-si hours of the eighth day, he asked for a bath, changed clothes, and sat upright. He asked for a brush and wrote a letter to Dahui, entrusting him with the arrangements after his passing. He also wrote a verse: 'Dream-illusions, empty flowers— / Sixty-seven years. / A white bird dissolves in the mist; / Autumn waters join the sky.' He threw down the brush and passed away. By imperial decree, he was posthumously granted the title Chan Master Hongzhi, and his stupa was named Miaoguang. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 20.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.20.42) - [Next: 20.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.20.44) - [Up: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.20) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036~en-mt.20.43) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [宏智禪師廣錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2001.9.512) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.20.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.20.43) · Pramāṇa