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宋詔台州東掖山圓智住上天竺。太師秦檜問曰。止觀一法耶二法耶。智曰一法也。譬之於水湛然而清者止也。可鑒鬚眉者觀也。水則一耳。以眾生心性有重昏巨散之病。用止觀為藥。救而治之。歸一法界之全體。法界寂然名為止。寂而常照名為觀。止觀明靜之體豈有二耶。檜悅首施錢五萬緡。以建法堂。紹興二十八年十二月十二日證悟法師圓智入寂。曹勛撰塔銘。詔嗣法首座若訥繼席住持。

In the Song, an imperial edict appointed Yuanzhi of Mount Dongye in Taizhou to reside at Upper Tianzhu. The Grand Preceptor Qin Hui asked him: "Are concentration and insight (śamatha and vipaśyanā) one dharma or two dharmas?" Zhi said: "They are one dharma. To use the analogy of water: that which is clear and still is concentration; that which can reflect one's beard and eyebrows is insight. The water is only one. Because the mental nature of sentient beings suffers from the ailments of profound dullness and great distraction, concentration and insight are employed as medicine to rescue and cure them, returning them to the complete substance of the one Dharma realm. The Dharma realm in its stillness is called concentration; remaining still yet constantly illuminating is called insight. How could the bright and tranquil substance of concentration and insight be two?" Qin Hui was delighted, and took the lead by donating fifty thousand strings of cash to build the Dharma hall. On the twelfth day of the twelfth month in the twenty-eighth year of Shaoxing, Dharma Master Zhengwu Yuanzhi entered into silence. Cao Xun composed the stupa inscription. An imperial edict appointed his Dharma-inheriting head monk, Ruone, to succeed to the seat as abbot.