釋氏稽古略 3.422

3.422

天台國清寺靜上座。初得悟於玄沙備禪師言下。居天台山三十餘年。有問者曰。心念紛飛未明攝伏。靜曰。却將紛飛之心以究紛飛之處。究之無處則紛飛之念何存。返究究心則能究之心安在。靜因覩教中幻義述偈曰。若道法皆如幻有。造諸過惡應無咎。云何所作業不忘。而藉佛慈興接誘。有小靜上座者答之曰。幻人興幻幻輪圍。幻業能招幻所治。不了幻生諸幻苦。覺知如幻幻無為。二靜上座遺踪。國清存焉（寺記碑刻）。

Senior Monk Jing of Guoqing Monastery on Mount Tiantai had first attained awakening under the words of Chan Master Bei of Xuansha. He lived on Mount Tiantai for over thirty years. Someone asked, "The thoughts in the mind are scattering and flying about, and I have not yet clarified how to gather and subdue them." Jing said, "Turn around and take this scattering and flying mind to investigate the place where they scatter and fly. If, upon investigating it, there is no place, then where do the scattering and flying thoughts abide? When you turn back to investigate the investigating mind, where is the mind that can investigate?" Having contemplated the meaning of illusion in the teachings, Jing composed a verse: / If you say phenomena all exist like an illusion, / Then committing all kinds of misdeeds should be without fault. / Why is the karma created not forgotten, / So that relying on the Buddha's compassion, he arises to receive and guide? / A certain Junior Monk Jing answered him: / An illusory person produces an illusion: the illusory iron-wheel enclosure; / Illusory karma can summon what illusory [laws] punish. / Not understanding illusion produces all illusory suffering; / Awakening to know that it is like an illusion, illusion is unconditioned. / The traces left by the two Senior Monks Jing remain at Guoqing Monastery (inscribed on stele records of the monastery).