大明高僧傳 6.6

6.6

釋道行號雪堂。處州葉氏子也。初依普照英得度。出遊參佛眼。一日聞眼舉玄沙築著脚指話遂大悟。住郡南明。上堂會得便會玉本無瑕。若言不會碓嘴生花。試問九年面壁何如大會拈花。南明恁麼商確也。是順風撒沙。次遷烏巨示眾舉。璣和尚問僧。禪以何為義。眾雖下語未契厥心。眾僧請益璣代云。以謗為義。師曰。三世諸佛是謗。西天二十八祖是謗。唐土六祖是謗。天下老和尚是謗。諸人是謗。山僧是謗。於中還有不謗者無。談玄說妙河沙數。爭似雙峯謗得親。忽示微疾。門弟子教授汪喬年至省。遂以後事委之。說偈曰。識則識自本心。見則見自本性。識得本心本性。正是宗門大病。又註曰。爛泥中有刺。莫道不疑好。黎明沐浴更衣加趺而逝。闍維獲五色舍利。煙所至處舍利纍然。齒舌不壞。塔于寺西。

Shi Daoxing was styled Xuetang. He was a son of the Ye family of Chuzhou. At first he was ordained under Puzhao Ying. Traveling out, he consulted Foyan. One day, hearing Foyan cite Xuansha's stubbing his toe, he had a great awakening. He resided at Nanming in the prefecture. Ascending the hall, [he said]: "If you understand, then understand right away: jade is inherently without flaw. If you say you do not understand: flowers bloom from the pestle's tip. May I ask, how does nine years of facing the wall compare to holding up a flower at the great assembly? When Nanming deliberates like this, it too is throwing sand with the wind." Later he was transferred to Wuju. Instructing the assembly, he cited: Master Ji asked a monk, "What is the meaning of Chan?" Though the assembly offered replies, none resonated with his mind. The monks requested further instruction, and Ji said on their behalf, "Slander is its meaning." The master said, "The Buddhas of the three periods are slander. The twenty-eight patriarchs of the Western Heavens are slander. The six patriarchs of the Tang land are slander. The venerable old masters throughout the world are slander. All of you are slander. This mountain monk is slander. Among them, is there still one who does not slander? Speaking of the profound and explaining the wondrous as numerous as the sands of the Ganges—how can it compare to Shuangfeng's intimate slander?" Suddenly he manifested a slight illness. His disciple, Professor Wang Qiaonian, came to inquire after him, and he entrusted him with the funeral affairs. He spoke a gāthā: / "Knowing means knowing one's own fundamental mind; / Seeing means seeing one's own fundamental nature. / To know the fundamental mind and fundamental nature / Is precisely the great illness of our school." / He further annotated it: / "There are thorns in the soft mud; / Do not say that having no doubt is good." / At dawn he bathed, changed robes, sat cross-legged, and passed away. The jhāpita yielded five-colored śarīra; wherever the smoke reached, śarīra appeared in abundance. His teeth and tongue did not decay. A stupa was erected west of the temple.