高僧傳 10.26

10.26

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.