宋高僧傳 8.31

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釋巨方，姓曹氏，安陸人也。弱齡幹節立身，從師稟業於州治明福院朗禪師，而聽誦《法華》、《維摩》二經，功畢受具。講述「南宗論」數席，即拂衣而起。禪會必參。後造北宗秀公所，銳精稽考，一見默許之。秀問曰：「白雲散處如何？」曰：「不昧也。」又問：「到此間後如何？」曰：「正見一枝生五葉。」秀頷之。數載之間，入室侍對，庶幾真道，罕有倫儗。乃辭，觀方至上黨寒嶺而居。積稔之間，學徒數百，求請無阻。凡所提唱：真妄同源、遲速異劑、得心助道、在乎修治，大較如此。鄆帥吳文渙侍中欽慕其風，遣使請歸府，建安國院。傳法化徒，尚祖風者不離于席，頓悟多矣。鄆帥問曰：「今日後如何？」答云：「地布金沙，人安寶剎。」吳帥信伏。因茲一府軍民，咸加宗仰。吳氏家無少長，重若神明，檀施豐厚。方後於五臺山道化，涉二十餘載。入滅時告眾曰：「吾齒盡於此矣。」言訖長逝，春秋八十一。以開元十五年九月三日，全身入塔云。次河中府安國院釋智封，姓吳氏，懷安人也。中年學道，勵操謹躬，行頭陀之行，卯食之後，水漿不度齒焉。於本州清靜寺恒法師下落髮受具，綜習《唯識論》。或人所詰，責之以滯于名相，憤發罷講。遊行登武當山，見秀師會疑氷解泮，思養聖胎。倏辭，出蒲津安峯山，禁足十年，木食㵎飲。屬州牧衛文昇請歸城內，建新安國院居之。因茲奔走，毳衣蔚然繁盛。使君問曰：「某今日後如何？」對曰：「日從濛氾出，照樹全無影。」使君初不喻旨，拱揖而退。少選開曉，充詘于懷。封來往中條山二十餘年，儉薄不充。得其道者不可勝紀。入滅後，門人於州北三十步建塔焉。

Shi Jufang, surname Cao, was a native of Anlu. From his early years, he established himself with moral resolve. He followed a master to receive instruction at Mingfu Cloister in the prefectural seat under Dhyāna Master Lang, listening to and reciting the two sūtras, the Lotus and the Vimalakīrti. When his training was completed, he received the upasampadā precepts. He lectured on the Treatises of the Southern School for several sessions, and then shook his robes and set out. Wherever there was a dhyāna gathering, he would attend. Later he went to the Northern school's Master Shenxiu, keenly investigating and inquiring, and upon a single meeting Shenxiu tacitly approved him. Shenxiu asked, 'What is it like when the white clouds disperse?' He replied, 'It is not dim.' Shenxiu asked again, 'What is it like after arriving here?' He replied, 'One sees directly that one branch bears five leaves.' Shenxiu nodded. For several years, he entered Shenxiu's room to attend and converse, approaching the true Way, with few who could equal him. He then took his leave, traveled about observing, and arrived at Hanling in Shangdang, where he resided. Over the years, his students numbered in the hundreds, and their requests for teaching were never obstructed. The general drift of his teachings was: genuine and delusion have the same source; slow and fast have different dosages; attaining the mind to assist the Way lies in cultivation and rectification—largely like this. Wu Wenhai, military commissioner of Yunzhou and director of the Chancellery, admired his style and dispatched an envoy to invite him to return to the prefecture, where he established Anguo Cloister. Transmitting the Dharma and transforming disciples, those who honored the ancestral style did not leave their seats, and many were suddenly awakened. The military commissioner asked, 'What about after today?' He replied, 'Gold sand covers the ground, and the people are secure in the precious monastery.' Commissioner Wu believed and submitted. Because of this, the military and civilian population of the whole prefecture revered him. In the Wu household, whether young or old, they venerated him like a divine spirit and made lavish donations. Later, Jufang carried out his teaching at Mount Wutai for more than twenty years. When he was about to pass away, he told the assembly, 'My years have run out here.' Having spoken, he passed away forever, at the age of eighty-one. On the third day of the ninth month of the fifteenth year of Kaiyuan, his whole body was interred in a pagoda. Next is Shi Zhifeng of Anguo Cloister in Hezhong Prefecture, surname Wu, a native of Huai'an. In middle age he studied the Way, rigorously maintaining his discipline and conduct, practicing dhūta; after the morning meal, not a drop of water or liquid passed his teeth. Under Dharma Master Heng of Qingjing Temple in his home prefecture, he shaved his head and took the upasampadā precepts, comprehensively studying the Cheng weishi lun. Someone interrogated him, censuring him for clinging to names and marks, whereupon he indignantly stopped lecturing. Traveling about, he climbed Mount Wudang, met Master Shenxiu, and had his doubts melted away like ice; he then contemplated nurturing the sacred fetus. Suddenly taking leave, he went out to Mount Anfeng in Pujin, where he confined his steps for ten years, eating from trees and drinking from ravines. It happened that the prefectural governor Wei Wensheng invited him to return into the city, building the New Anguo Cloister for him to reside in. Because of this, monastics in coarse robes rushed to him in great numbers. The governor asked, 'What about after today for me?' He replied, 'The sun rises from the Mengfan Abyss, shining on trees without a single shadow.' The governor at first did not understand the meaning, so he bowed and withdrew. Shortly thereafter he came to understand, his heart filled with humble contentment. Zhifeng traveled back and forth to Mount Zhongtiao for over twenty years, living frugally without abundance. Those who attained his Way were beyond count. After he passed away, his disciples built a pagoda thirty paces north of the prefecture.