釋鑑稽古略續集 2.31

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傑峯禪師　諱世愚號傑峯。西安人。族姓余。母毛氏。夢觀音送青衣童子而生。師自幼好禮佛塔。長依顯教孤嶽剃度。刺血書金剛經。謁古崖純公．石門剛公。得聞用力之要。兀坐如枯株。又見布衲雍公斷崖中峯諸善知識。參大慈山止巖成禪師。指示力究而得大悟。偈云。夜半忽然忘月指。虛空迸出日輪紅之句。止巖印可。服勞三載後。興復西安福慧古剎。帝師聞之。賜以佛智弘辯之號。遷主石溪興龍禪寺。嚮化者甚眾。連應古望．龍眼．寶蓋．普潤四剎。皆為第一代。洪武三年冬十二月。赴郡守黃公水陸大齋。佛事罷示疾。勉眾以精進入道。書偈云。生本不生。滅本不滅。撒手便行。一天明月。擲筆而化。壽七十臘五十。塔於烏石慈雲院。有二會語錄弟子十五人云。

Chan Master Jiefeng, whose taboo name was Shiyu and sobriquet was Jiefeng, was a native of Xi'an of the Yu clan. His mother, Lady Mao, gave birth to him after dreaming that Guanyin sent a boy dressed in blue garments. From his youth, the master was fond of venerating Buddha stupas. When grown, he took tonsure under Guyue of the Manifest Teaching, and pricked blood to write out the Diamond Sūtra. He visited the venerable Chun of Guya and the venerable Gang of Shimen, learning the essentials of applying effort, sitting erect like a withered stump. He also saw various good spiritual friends such as the venerable Yong of the Cloth Robe, Duanya, and Zhongfeng. He studied under Chan Master Zhiyan Cheng of Mount Daci, who instructed him to examine vigorously, through which he attained great awakening. His verse contained the lines: "In the middle of the night, suddenly forgetting the finger pointing to the moon, / Out from empty space bursts the red orb of the sun." Zhiyan gave him seal of approval. After toiling in service for three years, he revived the ancient Fuhui Monastery in Xi'an. When the Imperial Preceptor heard of this, he bestowed on him the title "Buddha Wisdom and Vast Eloquence." He transferred to become abbot of Xinglong Chan Monastery at Shixi, and those converted to his teaching were exceedingly numerous. In succession he responded to four monasteries—Guwang, Longyan, Baogai, and Purun—serving as the founding abbot for all of them. In the twelfth month, the winter of the third year of Hongwu, he attended the Great Water-and-Land Feast given by Prefect Huang. When the Buddhist rituals concluded, he showed signs of illness, exhorting the assembly to enter the Way with energetic progress. He wrote a verse: "Arising is originally unarisen; / Ceasing is originally unceasing. / Letting go with the hands, I walk right on; / A sky filled with the bright moon." He threw down his brush and transformed. His age was seventy; his monastic seniority was fifty. A pagoda was erected for him at Ciyun Cloister on Mount Wushi. He had the Discourse Records of Two Assemblies and fifteen disciples.