佛祖歷代通載 3.62

3.62

（二十三　甲申）　第六祖彌遮迦者。中印度人也。既傳法已。遊化至北天竺國。見雉堞之上有金色祥雲歎曰。斯道人氣也。必有大士為吾法嗣。乃入城。於闤闠間有一人。手持酒器逆而問曰。師何方而來。欲往何所。師曰。從自心來。欲往無處。曰識我手中物否。師曰。此是觸器而負淨者。曰師還識我否。師曰。我即不識。識即非我。又謂曰。汝試自稱名氏。吾當後示本因。彼因說偈而答。我從無量劫。至于生此國。本姓頗羅墮。名字婆須密。師曰。我師提多迦說。世尊昔遊北印度。語阿難言。此國中吾滅後三百年有一聖人。姓頗羅墮。名婆須密。而於禪祖當獲第七。世尊記汝。汝應出家。彼乃置器禮師側立而言曰。我思往劫。甞作檀那獻一如來寶座。彼佛記我云。汝於賢劫釋迦法中宣傳至教。今符師說。願加度脫。師即與披剃復圓戒相。乃告之曰。正法眼藏今傳於汝。勿令斷絕。乃說偈曰。無心無可得。說得不名法。若了心非心。始解心心法。說偈已。入師子奮迅三昧。踊身虛空高七多羅樹。却復本座。化火自焚。婆須密收靈骨貯七寶函。建浮圖寘于上級。即襄王十五年甲申歲也。

(Year 23, jiashen) The Sixth Patriarch was Miccaka, a native of Central India. Having received the Dharma transmission, he traveled and taught until he reached a northern Indian kingdom. Seeing golden auspicious clouds above the battlements of the city wall, he sighed and said, "This is the aura of a man of the Way; there must be a great being who will be my Dharma heir." He then entered the city. Among the market stalls there was a man holding a wine vessel in his hand, who approached him and asked, "From what direction has the Master come, and where do you wish to go?" The Master said, "I come from my own mind, and I wish to go nowhere." The man asked, "Do you recognize the object in my hand?" The Master said, "This is an impure vessel that holds what is clean." He asked, "Does the Master also recognize me?" The Master said, "I do not know, and knowing is not I." He further addressed him, "You try stating your own name, and I will later reveal your original cause." The man then answered by speaking a verse: "From immeasurable kalpas / down to my birth in this kingdom, / my original clan is Bhāradvāja, / and my name is Vasumitra." The Master said, "My teacher Dhītika said that formerly, when the Bhagavān traveled through northern India, he told Ānanda: 'In this kingdom, three hundred years after my extinction, there will be a sage of the Bhāradvāja clan named Vasumitra, who will become the seventh among the Chan patriarchs.' The Bhagavān prophesied of you; you should go forth from household life." He then set down the vessel, bowed to the Master, stood to the side, and said: "I recall that in a past kalpa, I once acted as a dānapati and offered a jeweled seat to a Tathāgata. That Buddha gave me a prophecy, saying: 'During the Bhadrakalpa, within the Dharma of Śākya, you will propagate the supreme teaching.' Now this corresponds to the Master's words; I pray you will grant me liberation." The Master then shaved his head and conferred the complete precepts. He then told him: "The Treasury of the Correct Dharma Eye is now transmitted to you; do not let it be severed." He then spoke a verse: "No mind, and nothing to obtain; / speaking of obtaining is not called Dharma. / If one realizes mind is non-mind, / only then does one comprehend the Dharma of mind after mind." Having spoken the verse, he entered the Lion's Vigorous Sprint samādhi, leaped into the air to the height of seven tāla trees, returned to his original seat, and transformed into fire to cremate himself. Vasumitra gathered the sacred bones, placed them in a seven-jeweled casket, and erected a stūpa, depositing it on the upper tier. This was the fifteenth year of King Xiang, the jiashen year.