大明高僧傳 5.10

5.10

釋紹隆和州含山人也。年九歲辭親投佛慧院。六年得度受具足戒。精研律部。五夏而後遊方。首訪長蘆信和尚得其大略而已。一日見有僧傳圓悟勤禪師語至。隆讀之歎曰。想口生液。雖未得澆腸沃胃。要且使人慶快。第恨未聆謦咳耳。遂至寶峯依湛堂。次見黃龍死心。然後參圓悟。一日入室。圓悟問曰。見見之時見猶離見見不能及。悟忽舉拳曰。還見麼。隆曰見。悟曰。頭上安頭。隆聞脫然契證。悟曰。見個甚麼。隆對曰。竹密不妨流水過。悟首肯之俾掌藏鑰。有僧問於圓悟曰。隆藏主其柔易若此。烏能為哉。悟笑曰。瞌睡虎耳。後因圓悟退老回蜀。隆乃住邑之城西開聖。宋建炎結廬於桐峯之下。郡守李光延居彰教。次遷虎丘。道大顯著。因追繹白雲端立祖堂故事乃曰。為人之後不能躬行遺訓。於義安乎。遂圖像奉安題讚其上。達磨讚曰。闔國人難挽。西携隻履歸。只應熊耳月。千古冷光輝。百丈讚曰。迅雷吼破澄潭月。當下曾經三日聾。去却膏肓必死疾。叢林從此有家風。開山明教大師讚曰。春至百花觸處開。幽香𭥃旎襲人來。臨風無限深深意。聲色堆中絕點埃。蓋白雲以。百丈海禪師創建禪規之功宜配享達磨。可謂知本矣。隆能遵行而為讚。又且發明其道。亦為知禮者歟。紹興丙辰示微恙加趺而逝。塔全身于寺之西南隅。

Śramaṇa Shaolong was a native of Hanshan in Hezhou. At the age of nine, he bid farewell to his parents and joined the Fohui Cloister. Six years later, he received ordination and the full precepts. He investigated the Vinaya division with meticulous care. After five summer retreats, he went on pilgrimage. First, he visited Preceptor Xin of Changlu, gaining only a general outline. One day, seeing that a monk had brought the recorded sayings of Chan Master Yuanwu Qin, Long read them and sighed with praise, saying, 'Just thinking of them makes my mouth water. Though they have not yet drenched my entrails and washed my stomach, they nonetheless make one feel gladdened and delighted. I only regret that I have not heard his voice in person.' Thereupon, he went to Baofeng to rely on Zantang, next saw Sixin of Huanglong, and then visited Yuanwu. One day, upon entering the room, Yuanwu asked, 'When seeing seeing, seeing is still detached from seeing; seeing cannot reach it.' Wu suddenly raised his fist and said, 'Do you still see?' Long said, 'I see.' Wu said, 'Adding a head on top of a head.' Upon hearing this, Long was completely and seamlessly enlightened. Wu said, 'What did you see?' Long replied, 'The thickness of the bamboo does not obstruct the flowing water.' Wu nodded in approval and placed him in charge of the library keys. A monk asked Yuanwu, 'The Director of the Canon Long is so gentle and pliable like this; what can he possibly accomplish?' Wu smiled and said, 'He is a dozing tiger!' Later, because Yuanwu retired in old age and returned to Shu, Long went to reside at Kaisheng to the west of his home city. In the Jianyan era of the Song, he built a hut beneath Tong Peak. The prefectural governor Li Guang invited him to reside at Zhangjiao, and next he moved to Huqiu, where his teachings became widely prominent. Drawing upon the precedent of Baiyun Duan establishing an ancestral hall, he said, 'As a descendant, if one cannot personally practice the bequeathed instructions, how can one be at peace regarding righteousness?' Thereupon, he had portraits installed and wrote eulogies upon them. The eulogy for Bodhidharma said: 'The whole country found it hard to hold him back; / Bearing a single shoe, he returned west. / It must be that the moon over Mount Xiong'er / Casts a cold radiance for a thousand ages.' The eulogy for Baizhang said: 'A swift thunderclap shattered the moon in the clear pool; / On the spot he was deaf for three days. / Having cast off a fatal illness in the vitals, / The monasteries have had a family tradition ever since.' The eulogy for the founding master Great Master Mingjiao said: 'When spring arrives, a hundred flowers bloom everywhere, / A delicate fragrance wafting softly to greet one. / Facing the wind, an infinite, profound meaning: / Amidst heaps of sound and form, not a speck of dust.' Now, because Baiyun considered that the merit of Chan Master Baizhang Hai in establishing the Chan regulations warranted sharing offerings with Bodhidharma, he may be called one who understood the root. That Long was able to comply with and write eulogies for it, and moreover illuminate its Dao, makes him also one who understood propriety! In the bingchen year of the Shaoxing era, he manifested a slight illness, sat in the lotus posture, and passed away. His entire body was enshrined in a stupa in the southwest corner of the monastery.