宋高僧傳 12.18

12.18

釋良价，俗姓俞氏，會稽諸暨人也。少孺從師于五洩山寺。年至二十一，方往嵩山具戒焉。登即遊方，見南泉禪師，深領玄契。續造雲巖，疑滯頓寢。大中末，於新豐山大行禪法。後盛化豫章高安洞山，今筠州也。价以咸通十年己丑三月朔旦，命剃髮披衣，令鳴鐘，奄然而往。時弟子輩悲號，价忽開目而起曰：「夫出家之人心不依物，是真修行。勞生息死，於悲何有？淪喪於情，太麁著乎？」召主事僧令營齋：「齋畢，吾其逝矣！」然眾心戀慕，從延其日。至於七辰，食具方備，价亦隨齋，謂眾曰：「此齋名愚癡也。」蓋責其無般若歟。及僧唱隨意，曰：「僧家勿事太率，臨行之際，喧動如斯。」至八日浴訖，端坐而絕，春秋六十三，法臘四十二。勅諡禪師曰悟本，塔號慧覺矣。

Shi Liangjie, whose secular surname was Yu, was a native of Zhuji in Kuaiji. In his youth he followed a master at a temple on Mount Wuxie. When he reached the age of twenty-one, he finally went to Mount Song to receive the full precepts. Immediately after, he traveled about and met Chan Master Nanquan, profoundly grasping the mystical tally. Next he went to Yunyan, and his doubts and obstructions suddenly ceased. At the end of Dazhong, he broadly practiced the Chan Dharma at Mount Xinfeng. Later he flourished in transforming Dongshan in Gao'an of Yuzhang, present-day Yunzhou. On the first morning of the third month in the jiyou year, the tenth year of Xiantong, Jie ordered his head shaved and robes donned, and had the bell struck, suddenly passing away. At that time his disciples wailed in sorrow; Jie suddenly opened his eyes, sat up, and said: 'One who has left the household has a mind that does not depend on things; this is true practice. One toils in life and rests in death; what is there to grieve over? To sink and perish in sentiment—is that not far too coarse and attached?' He summoned the prior monk and ordered him to prepare a vegetarian feast: 'When the feast is done, I shall depart!' Yet the assembly's hearts longed for him, so they postponed the day. By the seventh day, the food implements were finally ready, and Jie joined in the feast, saying to the assembly: 'This feast is called "Delusion".' This was to reproach them for lacking prajñā. When the monks chanted 'As you wish', he said: 'Monks should not act with such rashness; at the moment of departure, to stir up such clamour!' On the eighth day, after bathing, he sat upright and expired, having lived sixty-three years with forty-two dharma years. By imperial order, the Chan master was bestowed the posthumous title Wuben, and his pagoda was named Huijue.