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丙申元和十一年。江州歸宗寺智常禪師目有重瞳。用藥手按摩。久而目眥俱赤。因號赤眼歸宗。江州刺史李渤問曰。芥子納須彌莫妄談否。師曰。人傳使君讀萬卷書是否。李曰然。師曰。使君自頂至踵如椰子大。萬卷向甚處著。渤俛首有省。師歿。有嗣法者甚盛師嗣馬祖。

In the eleventh year of the Yuanhe era, a bingshen year, Chan Master Zhichang of Guizong Monastery in Jiangzhou had double pupils in his eyes. He rubbed them with medicine on his hands; over a long time both corners of his eyes turned red, and for this reason he was called Red-Eyed Guizong. Li Bo, the Prefect of Jiangzhou, asked, "Can a mustard seed contain Mount Sumeru, or is that not empty talk?" The master said, "People say that your Excellency has read ten thousand scrolls of books—is this so?" Li said, "It is." The master said, "From head to heel your Excellency is the size of a coconut; where do the ten thousand scrolls fit?" Bo bowed his head and had an awakening. After the master died, his Dharma heirs were very numerous. The master was a Dharma heir of Mazu.