釋氏稽古略 3.165

3.165

Vigor (vīrya): The Fahua fuxing says: "Purity without defilement regarding phenomena is called 'refined' (jing); thought after thought earnestly seeking is called 'advancing' (jin)." When Prime Minister Du Hongjian went out to pacify the Ba and Shu regions, he arrived in Yizhou (Chengdu Prefecture in Western Sichuan) in this year. He dispatched an envoy to Mount Baiya to invite Chan Master Wuzhu to enter the city and inquired about the essentials of the Dharma, saying: "Your disciple heard the Venerable Jin speak of the threefold Dharma-gate of no-recollection, no-thought, and do-not-delude (wang). I wonder whether they are one or three?" The Master said: "No-recollection is called morality; no-thought is called concentration; do-not-delude is called wisdom. When not a single thought arises, morality, concentration, and wisdom are fully present. They are neither one nor three." The Duke said: "Does the character wang in the latter phrase not mean 'forgetting' written with the 'heart' radical?" The Master said: "The one with the 'woman' radical is correct." The Duke said: "Is there textual evidence?" The Master said: "The Dharmapada says: 'If you give rise to a mind of vigor, that is delusion and not vigor. If you can keep the mind from delusion, vigor is without bounds.'" The Duke resolved his doubts entirely. At that time a crow cawed. The Duke asked the Master, "Do you hear it or not?" The Master said: "Hearing or not hearing does not pertain to the nature of hearing. When there is sound, the sense-object of sound arises of itself; when there is no sound, the sense-object of sound ceases of itself. Yet this nature of hearing neither arises with sound nor ceases with sound. If one awakens to this nature of hearing, one escapes the transmigration of the sense-object of sound. It is also like this even with sights, smells, tastes, and touch." The Duke leapt with joy and expressed his reverence. Details appear in the Record of the Transmission of the Lamp. The Master was the dharma heir of Chan Master Wuxiang of Yizhou; Wuxiang was the dharma heir of Ji of Zizhou; Ji was the dharma heir of Shen of Zizhou; Shen was the dharma heir of the Fifth Patriarch, Chan Master Daman; this was a collateral branch.