宋高僧傳 17.24

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釋唯儼，俗姓寒，絳縣人也。童齓慷愷，敏俊逸群。年十七，徙南康事潮陽西山慧照禪師。大曆八年，納戒于衡嶽寺希操律師所，乃曰：「大丈夫當離法自淨，焉能屑屑事細行於布巾邪？」遂謁石頭禪師，密證心法，住藥山焉。一夜明月，陟彼崔嵬，大笑一聲，聲應澧陽東九十許里。其夜澧陽人皆聞其聲，盡云是東家，明辰展轉尋問，迭互推尋，直至藥山，徒眾云：「昨夜和尚山頂大笑是歟？」自茲振譽，遐邇喧然。元和中李翱為考功員外郎，與李景儉相善。儉除諫議，薦翱自代，及儉獲譴，翱乃坐此出為朗州刺史。翱閑來謁儼，遂成警悟。又初見儼，執經卷不顧，侍者白曰：「太守在此。」翱性褊急，乃倡言曰：「見面不似聞名。」儼乃呼，翱應唯，曰：「太守何貴耳賤目？」翱拱手謝之，問曰：「何謂道邪？」儼指天指淨瓶曰：「雲在青天水在瓶。」翱于時暗室已明，疑氷頓泮，尋有偈云：「鍊得身形似鶴形，千株松下兩函經。我來相問無餘說，雲在青天水在瓶。」又偈「選得幽居愜野情，終年無送亦無迎。有時直上孤峯頂，月下披雲笑一聲。」初翱與韓愈、柳宗元、劉禹錫為文會之交，自相與述古言、法《六籍》，為文黜浮華、尚理致，言為文者韓、柳、劉焉。吏部常論：「仲尼既沒，諸子異端，故荀孟復之，楊墨之流洗然遺落。殆周隋之世，王道弗興，故文中子有作，應在乎諸子左右。唐興，房魏既亡，失道尚華，至有武后之弊，安史之殘。吾約二三子同致君復堯舜之道，不可放清言而廢儒，縱梵書而猾夏。敢有邪心歸釋氏者，有渝此盟，無享人爵，無永天年。先聖明神，是糺是殛！」無何，翱邂逅於儼，頓了本心。末由戶部尚書、襄州刺史，充山南東道節度使。復遇紫玉禪翁，且增明道趣，著《復性書》上下二篇。大抵謂：本性明白，為六情玷污，迷而不返，今牽復之，猶地雷之復見天地心矣！即內教之返本還源也。其書露而且隱，蓋而又彰，其文則〈象〉、〈繫〉、〈中庸〉，隱而不援釋教；其理則從真捨妄，彰而乃顯自心。弗事言陳，唯萌意許也。韓柳覽之，歎曰：「吾道萎遲，翱且逃矣！」儼陶鍊難化，護法功多，迴是子之心，拔山扛鼎，猶或云易。又相國崔群、常侍溫造相繼問道，儼能開發道意。以大和二年將欲終，告眾曰：「法堂即頹矣。」皆不喻旨，率人以長木而枝柱之，儼撫掌大笑云：「都未曉吾意。」合掌而寂，春秋七十云。

Śramaṇa Weiyan, lay surname Han, was a man of Jiang county. As a young child he was magnanimous, spirited, and exceptionally brilliant, surpassing his peers. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Nankang to serve Chan Master Huizhao of Xishan in Chaoyang. In the eighth year of the Dali era, he received the precepts under Vinaya Master Xicao at Hengyue Temple, whereupon he said: 'A great hero ought to abandon external phenomena and purify himself; how can he trouble himself over the trivial details of robes and cloths?' He then visited Chan Master Shitou, secretly verified the mind Dharma, and came to dwell at Yaoshan. One night under a bright moon, he climbed the precipitous peak and let out a great laugh, whose echo reached more than ninety li east of Liyang. That night, everyone in Liyang heard the sound and all assumed it was their eastern neighbor; the next morning they went around inquiring and tracing it step by step, all the way to Yaoshan. The assembly of disciples said: 'Was it the abbot’s great laugh on the mountain peak last night?' From then on, his reputation spread far and wide, resounding everywhere. During the Yuanhe era, Li Ao served as Vice Director of the Evaluation Bureau and was on good terms with Li Jingjian. When Jian was appointed Remonstrator, he recommended Ao to replace him; but when Jian met with censure, Ao was implicated in this and was posted out as Prefect of Langzhou. When Ao came at leisure to visit Yan, he thereupon attained enlightenment. Moreover, when he first met Yan, Yan held a scripture scroll and paid no heed to him. An attendant reported: 'The Prefect is here.' Ao was impatient by nature and proclaimed: 'Seeing your face is not like hearing your name!' Yan then called to him, and Ao answered 'Yes.' Yan said: 'Why does the Prefect value the ear and despise the eye?' Ao clasped his hands in apology and asked: 'What is the Way?' Yan pointed to the sky and pointed to his water pitcher, saying: 'The clouds are in the blue sky, the water is in the pitcher.' At that moment, Ao's dark chamber was illuminated and the ice of doubt suddenly melted. Soon after, he composed a verse: 'He has trained his body to resemble a crane, / with two cases of scriptures under a thousand pines. / I came to ask, but he said nothing else: