佛祖歷代通載 20.55

20.55

淳祐間晉陵尤焴號貳卿。甞題大惠語。大惠說法從橫踔勵。如孫吳之用兵。而廣闊弘深不可涯涘。如大海水。魚龍飲者莫不取足。今舉平昔聞見二則朱文公少年不樂讀時文。因聽一尊宿說禪直指本心。遂悟昭昭靈靈一著。十八歲請舉。時從劉屏山。屏山意其必留心舉業。暨搜其篋。只大惠語錄一帙爾。次年登科。故公平生深知禪學骨髓透脫關鍵。此上根利器。於此取足者也。焴早得於潘子善丈云爾。因取語錄讀之。至老不敢釋手。往在舂陵。永嘉徐棘卿瑄。亦貶是邦。未幾忽遷象臺。憂愁涕泣。焴授以所携本。徐卿亟取讀之。達旦不寐。次日欣悅忘憂。與昨日敻然二人也。遂携以去。手抄一本乃見還。後三年徐沒于貶所。臨終殆同游戲。不疾沐浴而逝。此書之靈驗如此。蓋焴之親覩也（云云）。

During the Chunyou era, You Yu of Jinling, styled Erqing, once wrote an inscription on Dahui's sayings: "When Dahui expounded the Dharma, he was uninhibited and vigorous, like Sunzi and Wuzi employing troops, yet broad, vast, and unfathomable like the great sea, where neither fish nor dragons drink without taking their fill. Now I present two instances from what I have heard and seen: When Master Zhu Wengong was young, he took no pleasure in reading contemporary examination literature. Hearing a venerable elder speak on Chan directly pointing to the original mind, he awakened to the clear and numinous matter. At eighteen, when he registered for the examinations, he was studying under Liu Pingshan. Pingshan assumed he would focus on the examination curriculum, but when he searched his trunk, there was only a single fascicle of Dahui's recorded sayings. The following year, he passed the examinations. Therefore, Master Zhu throughout his life deeply understood the marrow of Chan study and its liberating pivot; he was of superior faculty and sharp capacity, taking his fill from it. I heard this early on from Elder Pan Zishan. Thereupon, I took up the recorded sayings and read them, unable to let them out of my hand even into old age. Formerly in Chongling, Xu Xuan, styled Jiqing, of Yongjia, was also banished to that commandery. Soon after, he was suddenly transferred to Xiangtai; in sorrow and distress, he wept. I gave him the copy I carried. Lord Xu quickly took it and read it, remaining awake until dawn. The next day, joyful and forgetting his sorrows, he was an entirely different person compared to the day before. He then took it with him, and only returned it after hand-copying a text. Three years later, Xu died in his place of exile. Nearing the end, it was almost like play; without illness, he bathed and passed away. The spiritual efficacy of this book is like this. This is indeed what I personally witnessed" (and so forth).