釋鑑稽古略續集 3.249

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無趣老人　諱如空。秀水人。族姓施俗。號靜齋。留心內典志慕祖道。同友濟法舟參訪八年。謁野翁曉禪師。指參一歸何處話。後聞鷄鳴有省。往扣決擇。蒙翁印可。付衣付法偈曰。非法非非法。非性非非性。非心非非心。付汝心法竟。師剃染後居敬畏。於萬曆庚辰八月六日逝世。年九十歲。入滅偈曰。生來死去空華。死去生來一夢。皮囊付與丙丁公。白骨斷橋隨眾。呵呵。明月清風今弄。

Elder Wuqu: Taboo name Rukong; a native of Xiushui, from the Shi clan. His secular sobriquet was Jingzhai. He devoted his mind to the internal scriptures and set his aspiration on the ancestral Way. Together with his friend Ji Fazhou, he traveled on pilgrimage for eight years. He visited Chan Master Yeweng Xiao, who instructed him to investigate the phrase "To what place does the one return?" Later, hearing the crow of a rooster, he had an awakening. He went to inquire and resolve his doubts, and received Yeweng's seal of approval. The verse for the transmission of the robe and Dharma read: / "Neither Dharma nor non-Dharma, / Neither nature nor non-nature, / Neither mind nor non-mind: / The transmission of mind-dharma to you is complete." / After shaving his head and dyeing his robes, the master resided at Jingwei. On the sixth day of the eighth month of the gengchen year of the Wanli era, he passed away at the age of ninety. His verse upon entering extinction read: / "Coming into life and departing in death are flowers in the sky; / Departing in death and coming into life are a dream. / The leather bag is handed over to Lord Bingding; / The white bones at the broken bridge follow the crowd. / Ha ha! / Today I play with the bright moon and the pure breeze."