佛祖歷代通載 20.73

20.73

（二十　癸卯）　淳熙九年二月十九日。沙門可觀卒。字宜翁。華亭戚氏。年十六具戒。依南屏精微師。聞車溪擇卿聲振江浙。負笈從之。一日聞舉唱般若寂寥。忽有悟入。如服一杯降氣湯。玉惠覺有橫山命。師偕行讀指要。至若不謂實鐵床非苦變易非遷。歎曰。語言文字皆糠粃耳。建炎初主嘉禾壽聖。遷當湖德藏。居閱世堂為楞嚴補註。霅以祥符延。閱兩載以疾反當湖南林。一室蕭然人不堪之。則曰。松風山月此我無盡衣鉢也。乾道七年。丞相魏杞出鎮姑蘇請主北禪。入門適當九日。指座云。胸中一寸灰已冷。頭上千莖雪未消。老步只宜平地去。不知何事又登高。魏公擊節不已。淳熙七年皇子魏王牧四明（諱愷諡惠憲王孝宗次子）用月堂遺書之薦。請主延慶。時已八十九歲。抵行在所而聞王薨。師在天竺受請曰。王旨如生。豈當有辭。遂行至南湖。眾見行李寂寂。莫不歎服。不二載復歸當湖竹庵。無疾而逝。壽九十一。大惠先沒二十年矣。

[20. Guimao] In the ninth year of Chunxi, on the nineteenth day of the second month, the Śramaṇa Keguan died. His courtesy name was Yiweng, and he was of the Qi family of Huating. At age sixteen he took the full precepts. He relied on Master Jingwei of Nanping. Hearing that Chexi Zeqing's fame shook Jiangzhe, he shouldered his book-box and followed him. One day, hearing him recite that prajñā is desolate and silent, he suddenly had an awakening, as if having drunk a cup of qi-descending soup. Master Yuhui Jue had an assignment at Hengshan, and Keguan accompanied him, reading the Zhiyao (Essentials). Reaching the line, 'If one does not consider them real, the iron bed is not suffering, and the transformative [body] is not transmigrating,' he sighed and said, 'Spoken words and written letters are all mere chaff.' At the beginning of the Jianyan era, he presided over Shousheng in Jiahe, then moved to Dechang in Danghu. Residing in the Yueshi Hall, he compiled supplementary commentaries to the Śūraṅgama Sūtra. Zhaozhou invited him to Xiangfu; after two years, due to illness, he returned to Nanlin in Danghu. His single room was desolate, which others found unbearable, but he said, 'The pines, wind, mountain, and moon—these are my inexhaustible robes and alms bowl.' In the seventh year of Qiandao, Grand Councillor Wei Qi, departing to garrison Gusu, invited him to preside over Beichan. Keguan entered the gate right on the ninth day [of the ninth month]. Pointing to the seat, he said: 'The inch of ash in my chest has already grown cold; / The thousand strands of snow upon my head have not yet melted. / Old steps are only fit for walking on level ground; / For what reason should I once again climb high?' Lord Wei clapped his hands in endless admiration. In the seventh year of Chunxi, the Imperial Prince, King of Wei, governed Siming (named Kai, posthumously titled King Huixian, the second son of Emperor Xiaozong). Acting upon the recommendation of the late Yuetang's letter, he invited Keguan to preside over Yanqing. Keguan was already eighty-nine years old. Arriving at the provisional capital, he heard that the prince had passed away. Keguan had accepted the invitation while at Tianzhu, and said, 'The Prince's order is as if he were still alive; how could I decline?' He then proceeded to Nanhu. Seeing that his luggage was so meager, the assembly could not help but sigh in admiration. Not two years later, he returned to Zhuan in Danghu, and passed away without illness at the age of ninety-one. Dahui had already passed away twenty years earlier.