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By nature he rarely spoke or smiled; hearing monks chant Sanskrit, he was pleased. At age fifteen, he tonsured his head under Chan Master Wénhuì. Not having exhausted the ocean of the Canon, he enjoyed delving into worldly texts. One day he considered, “Shaving the head and dyeing the robes ought to aim at thorough awakening; shall I remain infatuated with mundane scriptures?” Thereupon he first called on Yuánwù, and next studied under Huángbò Xiáng and Gāo’ān Wù; his responses and words matched them all. Because bandits arose in Huái and Chǔ, he returned to call on Fóxīn. Encountering Dàhuì staying in Guǎng\[zhōu\], he thereupon followed him. Dàhuì said, “Try to bring up one or two things you attained at Fóxīn’s place and let me see.” Míguāng said, “Fóxīn ascended the hall and took up Pǔhuà’s gongan, saying: ‘Fóxīn would not do so. When it does not come about at all like that, how should it be? One strikes right across the back, letting him divide his body across all realms.’ ” Dàhuì said, “What was your thought?” He replied, “I did not approve of his adding a commentary at the rear.” Dàhuì said, “This is precisely using illness to remove the dharma.” Míguāng held firmly and would not accept this. Dàhuì said, “Just deliberate on it and see.” Míguāng consistently held it to be not so. After ten days, recalling Master Hǎiyìn Xìn’s comment, “The sound of thunder is vast and great, but raindrops there are none at all,” Míguāng only then had no obstruction. He rushed to inform Dàhuì. Dàhuì brought up the phrases of the Practitioner seeing Lángyé and of Xuánshā being not yet thorough to interrogate him. After Míguāng replied, Dàhuì laughed and said, “Although you have advanced a step, you simply do not hit the mark. Like a person felling a tree’s root: with one blade the life-root is severed. You chop on the branches—can that sever the life-root? Nowadays, the talk of Chan surging everywhere: their views are all like this. What benefit does it have for the matter? Those with the orthodox transmission of Yǎngqí are merely three or four people.” Míguāng left in displeasure. The next day Dàhuì asked, “Do you still have doubt?” He replied, “There is nothing to doubt.” Dàhuì said, “Take for instance the ancients: when meeting, before waiting for the other to open his mouth, they already knew true or false; or upon hearing his words, they at once recognized shallow or deep. What is this principle?” Míguāng was terrified and broke into a sweat, not knowing where to turn. Dàhuì instructed him to investigate the phrase on being and non-being. Dàhuì passed by Yúnmén Hermitage, and Míguāng accompanied him as an attendant. One day he asked, “I have arrived here but cannot achieve thoroughness. Where does the sickness lie?” Dàhuì said, “Your sickness is most eccentric; worldly doctors fold their hands. Why? Others die and cannot come alive; you now are alive but have never died. To reach the stage of great ease and peace, you must die once, and only then will you get it.” Míguāng’s doubt grew ever deeper. Later he entered the room; Dàhuì asked, “Having eaten the porridge and washed the bowl, cast aside the medicinal taboos and bring forth a phrase!” Míguāng said, “Torn apart!” Dàhuì then shook his might and shouted, “You are talking Chan again!” Míguāng at once attained great awakening. Dàhuì then beat the drum to inform the assembly: / ‘Turtle hair picked up brings laughter and glee; / With a single strike, ten thousand layers of bolt and lock open. / The rejoicing of a lifetime is today; / Who says that traveling a thousand miles misled me here?’ / Míguāng also presented a verse: / ‘One pressing at the crux, an angry thunder roars, / Startling Mount Sumeru into hiding the Northern Dipper. / The great waves are vast and boundless, billows surge to heaven; / Grasping the nostrils, one loses the mouth.’ / From this time, his renown resounded throughout the universe; his Way reached both monks and laypeople. He came forth to reside at Jiàozhōng, offering a stick of incense for Miàoxǐ. 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