[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大明高僧傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062) › 6.29 # 大明高僧傳 6.29 大明高僧傳 6.29 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.6.29) 釋鼎需號懶庵。郡之林氏子也。幼業儒舉進士。蒞政有聲。年二十五因閱遺教經忽省曰。幾為儒冠誤也。即欲舍俗。母氏難以親迎在期。需笑絕之曰。夭桃紅杏一時分付春風。翠竹黃花此去永為道侶。遂依保壽樂公為大僧遍參名宿。歸里結庵羌峯三年。甞以即心即佛話問學者。時妙喜庵于洋嶼。晦庵光在侍。特以書招之曰。此間庵主手段與諸方別。可來少欵如何。需不答。光以計邀至。值妙喜為眾入室。需欲隨喜而已。妙喜因舉。僧問馬祖。如何是佛祖云即心是佛。爾作麼生。需下語。喜詬曰。汝見解如此。敢妄為人師耶。乃鳴鼓訐其為邪解。需淚交頤不敢仰視。自默計曰。我既為所排。而西來不傳之旨豈止此耶。遂求入弟子之列。一日妙喜問曰。內不放出外不放入。正恁麼時如何。需擬開口。喜拈竹篦劈脊連打三下。需大悟厲聲曰。和尚已多了也。喜又打一下。需禮拜。喜笑曰。今日方知吾不汝欺也。印以偈曰。頂門竪亞摩醯眼。肘後斜懸奪命符。瞎却眼卸却符。趙州東壁掛葫蘆。自此名喧叢席道被遐方。此後開堂始稱具眼宗匠云也。 > Śramaṇa Dǐngxū, styled Lǎn’ān, was a son of the Lín family of the prefecture. In youth he studied Confucianism and was presented as a jinshi; his administration of government was reputable. At age twenty-five, upon reading the Testament Sūtra, he suddenly realized, ‘I was almost misled by the Confucian cap!’ He immediately wished to abandon the mundane. His mother made things difficult for him because the wedding date was approaching. Dǐngxū smiled, cut it off, and said, ‘Tender peach and red apricot are all at once entrusted to the spring wind; emerald bamboo and yellow flowers from now on will forever be my companions in the Way.’ Thereupon he relied on Master Lè of Bǎoshòu to become a fully ordained monk, and extensively called on eminent elders. Returning to his home village, he built a hermitage on Qiāng Peak for three years. He often used the phrase ‘This very mind is Buddha’ to question students. At that time Miàoxǐ was staying in a hermitage at Yángyǔ; Huì’ān Guāng attended him and specifically sent a letter inviting Dǐngxū, saying: ‘The hermit master’s method here is different from that of other places; how about coming for a short stay?’ Dǐngxū did not reply. Guāng used a stratagem to invite him over. It happened that Miàoxǐ was giving interviews in his room for the assembly; Dǐngxū wished merely to follow along and rejoice. Miàoxǐ consequently brought up: ‘A monk asked Mǎzǔ, “What is the Buddha?” The Patriarch said, “This very mind is Buddha.” How do you take it?’ Dǐngxū offered a phrase. Miàoxǐ scolded him, saying, ‘Your view is like this, yet you dare to act as a teacher of others recklessly?’ He then beat the drum and denounced it as a heterodox understanding. Dǐngxū’s tears streamed down his cheeks and he dared not look up. He quietly thought to himself: ‘Since I have been rejected by him, can the non-transmitted intention from the West be limited to this?’ He thereupon sought to join the ranks of disciples. One day, Miàoxǐ asked, ‘Not letting out from within, not letting in from without: at just such a time, how is it?’ Dǐngxū intended to open his mouth; Miàoxǐ picked up the bamboo staff and struck him three times continuously across the back. Dǐngxū attained great awakening and said in a stern voice, ‘The Venerable has already done too much!’ Miàoxǐ struck him once more. Dǐngxū bowed. Miàoxǐ laughed and said, ‘Today you finally know that I have not deceived you.’ He certified him with a verse: / ‘At the crown of the head, straight erect stands the eye of Maheśvara; / Behind the elbow, slanted hangs the life-snatching tally. / Blind the eye, discard the tally! / On Zhàozhōu’s eastern wall hangs a gourd.’ / From then on, his renown resounded in the monastic halls, and his Way covered distant regions. Only after this, when he opened the hall, was he called a lineage master possessing the eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.6.28) - [Next: 6.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.6.30) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062~en-mt.6.29) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.6.29) · Pramāṇa