高僧傳 4.26

4.26

Soon afterwards, he retired to the mountains of Shan, founding a monastery on the Lesser Ridge of Wozhou to practice the Way. The saṃgha numbered over a hundred, who constantly followed and learned from him. As some among them occasionally grew lax, Dun composed an 'Inscribed Admonition for the Right of One's Seat' to exhort them, which ran: 'Strive, strive! The utmost Way is not far; / Why linger and delay, / Weakly forfeiting the marvelous and spiritual? / Boundless are the three realms, / Distant and long the fetters; / Toils and troubles converge from without, / While the dark mind gallops within. / Sacrificing oneself to pursue cravings and thrist, / Drawn far away, forgetting fatigue; / A human life lasts but one generation, / As fleeting as suspended dew. / My body is not myself— / To whom does all this commotion apply? / The realized person cherishes virtue, / Knowing that peace must turn to peril. / Serene and aloof, soaring cleanly, / One cleanses defilements in the pool of dhyāna; / Carefully observing the luminous precepts, / Elegantly relishing the mysterious rules. / Pacify the mind in the spiritual Way; / Raise the will toward non-action. / Brightly clear the three obscurations; / Melt and dissolve the six blemishes. / Empty and unify the five aggregates; / Clear away and open the four limbs. / "Not a finger" points to the finger; / Severed, yet never separated. / Once marvelous awakening is expounded, / Deepen its knowledge in mystery. / Adaptable and calm, yielding to what comes, / Moving along with things; / Beyond this, / Think not, discuss not. / Zealous toward the Father of Awakening, / Keep your intent like an infant.' The public opinion of the time held that Dun's talent was fit to expound the scriptures and assist the state, yet his puritanical detachment from the worldly contradicted the principle of universal salvation. Dun thereupon composed the 'Treatise Dispelling Ignorance'.