高僧傳 10.26

10.26

佉吒曰：「前見先生禪思幽岫，一坐百齡。大悲熏心，靖念枯骨。」亦題頌曰：「悠悠世事，或滋損益。使欲塵神，橫生悅懌。惟此哲人，淵覺先見。思形浮沫，矚影遄電。累躓聲華，蔑醜章弁。視色悟空，翫物傷變。捨紛絕有，斷習除戀。青條曲蔭，白茅以廌。依畦啜麻，隣崖飲洊。慧定計照，妙真曰眷。慈悲有增，深想無倦。」言竟各去。爾後月日，不復見此二人。傳者云，將僧悟共之南岳不及。張奴與杯度相見，甚有所敘，人所不解。度猶停都少時，遊止無定，請召，或往不往。

Zha said, "Earlier, I saw you, sir, in meditative contemplation in a hidden gorge, sitting for a hundred years in a single session. Great compassion perfumed your mind, as you quietly meditated on withered bones." He also inscribed a eulogy, saying: / "Endless are the affairs of the world, / Multiplying loss and gain. / Causing desires to defile the spirit, / Gratuitously giving rise to pleasure. / Only this wise man / Had deep awakening and foresight. / Seeing form as floating foam, / Beholding reflections like fleeting lightning. / Stumbling over fame and glory, / Despising ornate caps and robes. / Seeing forms, he realized emptiness; / Fondling things, he mourned mutation. / Abandoning turmoil, severing existence, / Cutting habits and eliminating attachments. / Bending green boughs for shade, / Using white cogongrass as a mat. / Bordering the fields, eating hemp, / Nigh to cliffs, drinking repeatedly. / Wisdom and concentration join to illuminate; / The wondrously true is his kin. / Loving-kindness and compassion increase; / His profound contemplation knows no weariness." / When their words ended, each went his way. Thereafter, for months and days, these two men were seen no more. Chroniclers say that they were going to take Sengwu with them to the Southern Peak, but did not make it. Zhang Nu met with Beidu, and they conversed at great length in terms that people could not understand. Beidu still stayed in the capital for a short time, traveling and residing without fixed abode; when invited, he would sometimes go and sometimes not.