釋氏稽古略 4.371

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杭州景德靈隱禪寺禪師。名崇岳。生處州龍泉吳氏。孝宗隆興二年。得度於杭州西湖白蓮精舍。遊方參請。最後見密庵傑禪師於衢州西山。密庵移建康蔣山華藏杭之徑山。皆侍從之。密庵開室問僧。不是心不是佛不是物。師侍側忽大悟。密庵遷靈隱。命師居第一座。旋出世平江澄照。為密庵嗣。遷江陰光孝無為治父饒州薦福明州香山平江虎丘。寧宗慶元三年詔住靈隱。慶元六年上章乞老。帝許之退居東庵。嘉泰二年八月四日。手書別交舊公卿。垂語於學者曰。有力量人因甚擡脚不起。又曰。開口不在舌頭上。貽書嗣法弟子。香山光睦．雲居善開．囑以闡法。書偈曰。來無所來。去無所去。瞥轉玄關。佛祖罔措。跏趺而寂。壽七十一歲。臘四十九夏。塔全身北高峯之原（行業碑刻）。

The Chan Master of the Jingde Lingyin Chan Monastery in Hangzhou was named Chongyue, born into the Wu family of Longquan in Chuzhou. In the second year of the Longxing era of Emperor Xiaozong, he was ordained at the Bailian Hermitage on the West Lake in Hangzhou. He traveled to visit and inquire of masters, finally seeing Chan Master Mi'an Jie at West Mountain in Quzhou. When Mi'an moved to Huazang on Mount Jiang in Jiankang and to Jingshan in Hangzhou, he attended upon him throughout. Mi'an opened his room to question the monks: 'It is not mind, it is not Buddha, it is not a thing.' The master, standing by his side, suddenly experienced great enlightenment. When Mi'an transferred to Lingyin, he appointed the master as head monk. Soon afterward, he assumed his first abbacy at Chengzhao in Pingjiang as the dharma heir of Mi'an. He successively moved to Guangxiao in Jiangyin, Zhifu in Wuwei, Jianfu in Raozhou, Xiangshan in Mingzhou, and Huqiu in Pingjiang. In the third year of the Qingyuan era of Emperor Ningzong, he was decreed to reside at Lingyin. In the sixth year of the Qingyuan era, he submitted a memorial requesting retirement; the emperor granted it, and he withdrew to reside at the East Cloister. On the fourth day of the eighth month of the second year of the Jiatai era, he wrote farewell letters to old friends among the officials. He gave these turning words to students: 'Why can a person of strength not lift their foot?' and also: 'Opening one's mouth does not depend on the tongue.' He sent letters to his dharma-heir disciples, Guangmu of Xiangshan and Shan'kai of Yunju, charging them with elucidating the Dharma. He wrote a gāthā: / 'Coming, there is nowhere to come from; / Going, there is nowhere to go. / In an instant turning at the mysterious pivot, / The Buddhas and Patriarchs are at a loss.' / He sat cross-legged and passed into quiescence, at the age of seventy-one, with forty-nine summers of monastic age. His whole body was enshrined in a stūpa on the plateau of North Peak (from the stele inscription of his deeds).