大明高僧傳 5.13

5.13

釋端裕。號佛智。吳越錢王之裔也。六世祖守會稽因家焉。師生而岐嶷眉目淵秀。十四驅烏於大善寺。十八得度受具。往依淨慈一禪師。未幾偶聞僧繫露柱曰爾何不說禪。裕忽有微省。去謁龍門遠甘露卓泐潭祥。皆以頴邁見推。晚見圓悟於鍾阜。一日悟問。正法眼藏向這瞎驢邊滅却。即今是滅不滅。曰請和尚合取口好。悟曰。此猶未出常情。裕擬對。悟擊之裕頓去所滯。侍悟居天寧命掌記室。尋分座道聲藹著京西。憲請開法丹霞。次遷虎丘徑山。謝事狥平江道俗之請菴于西華。閱數稔勅居建康保寧。後移蘇城萬壽及閩中玄妙壽山西禪。復被旨補靈隱慈寧。皇太后幸韋王第。召裕演法賜金襴袈裟。乞歸西華舊隱。紹興戊辰秋赴育王之命。上堂曰。德山入門便棒。多向布袋裏埋蹤。臨濟入門便喝。總在聲塵中出沒。若是英靈衲子。直須足下風生超越古今途轍。拈拄杖卓一下喝一喝曰。秖這個何似生。若喚作棒喝。瞌睡未惺。不喚作棒喝。未識德山臨濟。畢竟如何。卓一下曰。總不得動著。僧問。如何是賓中賓。裕曰。爾是田庫奴。僧曰。如何是賓中主。曰相逢猶莽鹵。僧曰。如何主中賓。曰劍氣爍愁雲。曰如何是主中主。師曰。敲骨打髓。裕蒞眾色必凜然寢食不背眾唱道無倦。紹興庚午十月初示微疾。至十八日首座法全請遺訓。師曰。盡此心意以道相資。語絕而逝。火後目睛齒舌不壞。其地發光終夕。得設利無算。踰月不絕。黃冠羅肇常平日問道於裕。適外歸獨無所獲。羅念勤切。方與客食。咀噍間若有物。吐哺則設利也。大如菽色若琥珀。好事者持去。遂再拜於闍維所。聞香匧有聲。亟開所獲如前而差紅潤。門人奉遺骨分塔於鄮峯西華。諡大悟禪師。

Śramaṇa Shi Duanyu was styled Fozhi. He was a descendant of King Qian of Wuyue. His ancestor of the sixth generation had governed Kuaiji and consequently made his home there. The Master was precocious from birth, with deep and elegant features. At fourteen he drove away crows at Dashan Monastery. At eighteen he was ordained and received full ordination. He went to rely on Chan Master Yi of Jingci. Before long, he happened to hear a monk bind an open pillar, saying: "Why do you not speak Chan?" Duanyu suddenly had a slight awakening. He left to visit Longmen Yuan, Ganlu Zhuo, and Letan Xiang, all of whom held him in high esteem for his outstanding pre-eminence. In his later years he saw Yuanwu at Zhongfu. One day Yuanwu asked: "'The Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma is extinguished toward this blind ass.' Right now, is it extinguished or not extinguished?" He said: "Please, Master, it would be better to close your mouth." Yuanwu said: "This still has not transcended ordinary sentiments." Duanyu intended to reply; Yuanwu struck him, and Duanyu instantly cast away that in which he had been stuck. Attending on Yuanwu while residing at Tianning, he was ordered to take charge of the recorder's office. Soon he shared the seat, and his fame in the Way resounded through Jingxi. The surveillance commissioner requested him to open the Dharma at Danxia. Next he was transferred to Huqiu and Jingshan. He resigned from duties and, yielding to the invitation of the monastics and laity of Pingjiang, built a hermitage at Xihua. After several years, an imperial decree ordered him to reside at Baoning in Jiankang. Later he moved to Wanshou in the city of Suzhou, as well as Xuanmiao in Minzhong and Xichan of Shoushan. Again receiving an imperial decree, he filled the vacancy at Lingyin and Cining. When the Empress Dowager visited the residence of King Wei, she summoned Duanyu to expound the Dharma and bestowed on him a gold-threaded saṅghāṭī. He begged to return to his old retreat at Xihua. In the autumn of the wuchen year of Shaoxing, he accepted the appointment to Yuwang. Ascending the hall, he said: "When Deshan entered the gate, he immediately used his staff—mostly burying his traces within a cloth sack. When Linji entered the gate, he immediately shouted—always emerging and submerging amidst the dust of sounds. If you are a brilliant, spirited patch-robed monk, wind must arise beneath your feet, surpassing the tracks of past and present." Taking up his staff, he struck once, gave a shout, and said: "Just this—what is it like? If you call it a stick or a shout, your slumber has not yet awakened. If you do not call it a stick or a shout, you do not yet know Deshan and Linji. In the end, what is it?" He struck once and said: "You must not move at all!" A monk asked: "What is the guest within the guest?" Duanyu said: "You are a slave of fields and storehouses." The monk said: "What is the host within the guest?" He said: "Meeting each other is still reckless and crude." The monk said: "What is the guest within the host?" He said: "The sword's qi flashes through sorrowful clouds." The monk said: "What is the host within the host?" The Master said: "Striking the bone and pounding the marrow." When Duanyu presided over the community, his expression was always awe-inspiring. He neither slept nor ate apart from the assembly, chanting the Way without weariness. In early winter of the gengwu year of Shaoxing, he manifested a slight illness. On the eighteenth day, the head seat Faquan requested his final instructions. The Master said: "Exhaust this mind and intent, assisting one another through the Way." His words ended, and he passed away. After the fire, his eyeballs, teeth, and tongue were undamaged. That place emitted light all night. Countless śarīra were obtained, not ceasing for more than a month. The Daoist Luo Zhaochang, who usually questioned Duanyu about the Way, happened to return from abroad and alone obtained nothing. Luo was earnestly mindful. Just as he was eating with guests, during his chewing there seemed to be an object. When he spat it out, it was indeed a śarīra, as large as a bean and amber in color. A meddler carried it away. He then bowed again at the place of jhāpita. Hearing a sound in the incense casket, he hastily opened it, and what he obtained was as before, but somewhat more reddish and lustrous. His disciples took his remaining bones and erected stupas on Mao Peak and at Xihua. He was posthumously named Chan Master Dawu.