[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) › 7.24 # 大明高僧傳 7.24 大明高僧傳 7.24 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.7.24) 釋蘊能號慧目。郡之呂氏子也。少習儒博究經史。年二十二於村落校書。偶於山寺見禪冊在几。閱之似有所得。遂裂衣冠投僧圓具。一鉢遐遊。首參寶勝澄甫禪師。徵詰酬酢所趣頗異。逕往荊湖方謁永安喜真如喆德山繪諸公。造詣益邁。次抵大溈參瑃禪師。瑃問曰。桑梓何處。曰西川。瑃曰。聞西川有普賢菩薩示現是否。曰今日親瞻慈相。瑃曰。白象何在。曰爪牙已具。瑃曰。會轉身麼。能提具繞禪床一匝。瑃曰。不是。能趨出。一日瑃問僧。黃巢過後有人收得寶劍麼。僧竪起拳。瑃曰。菜刀子。僧曰。爭奈受用不盡。瑃喝出。次問能。亦竪拳。瑃曰也是菜刀子。能便近前攔胸築曰。殺得人即休。瑃笑曰。三十年弄騎馬。今日被驢撲。由是聲播諸方。返蜀初主報恩。次居中巖。室中甞問崇真氈頭曰。如何是爾空劫已前面目。真忽領悟對曰。和尚且低聲遂呈偈曰。萬年倉裏曾饑饉。大海中住儘長渴。當時尋時尋不見。今日避時避不得。能印可之。能住持三十餘年說法不許人錄。臨終書偈辭眾端坐而化。闍維時暴風忽起。煙之所至皆雨舍利。道俗斸地亦有得者。心舌不壞。而建塔焉。 > Shi Yunneng was styled Huimu. He was a son of the Lü family of the prefecture. In his youth, he studied Confucianism, deeply investigating the classics and histories. At the age of twenty-two, while collating books in a village, he happened upon a Chan book on a table in a mountain monastery. Reading it, he seemed to have gained something. Thereupon, he tore off his scholar's robes and cap, went to the monks, and received full ordination. With a single bowl he traveled far. He first studied under Chan Master Baosheng Chengfu; in their questioning and exchanges, his inclinations were quite uncommon. He went straight to Jinghu, where he visited various venerable masters such as Anxi of Yong'an, Zhe of Zhenru, and Hui of Deshan; his attainments advanced further. Next, he arrived at Dawei and studied under Chan Master Chun. Chun asked, 'Where is your native place?' He said, 'Xichuan.' Chun said, 'I hear that in Xichuan Samantabhadra Bodhisattva makes an appearance; is that so?' He said, 'Today I personally gaze upon his compassionate visage.' Chun said, 'Where is the white elephant?' He said, 'Its claws and teeth are already complete.' Chun said, 'Can you turn yourself around?' Neng picked up his sitting mat and walked a full circle around the meditation platform. Chun said, 'Not it.' Neng hurried out. One day, Chun asked a monk, 'After Huang Chao passed, did anyone retrieve the precious sword?' The monk held up his fist. Chun said, 'A vegetable knife.' The monk said, 'What can you do about its endless utility?' Chun shouted him out. Next, he asked Neng. Neng also raised his fist. Chun said, 'That too is a vegetable knife.' Neng then approached, struck him in the chest, and said, 'If it can kill a person, that suffices!' Chun laughed and said, 'For thirty years I have ridden horses, but today I have been thrown by a donkey!' From this his reputation spread across all quarters. Returning to Shu, he first presided over Baotren, and next resided at Zhongyan. In his chamber, he once asked Felt-Head Chongzhen, 'What was your face before the empty kalpa?' Zhen suddenly grasped it and replied, 'Venerable Sir, lower your voice!' He then presented a verse: 'Inside the ten-thousand-year granary, I was once famished; / Living in the great ocean, I was thoroughly parched. / Back then, searching, I could not find it; / Today, evading it, I cannot avoid it.' Neng confirmed him. Neng was abbot for over thirty years, not allowing people to record his preaching of the Dharma. Approaching his end, he wrote a verse taking leave of the assembly, sat upright, and transformed. At the time of his jhāpita, a violent wind suddenly arose, and wherever the smoke reached, śarīra rained down. Monastics and laymen who dug the earth also found some. His heart and tongue were indestructible, and a stupa was erected for him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.7.23) - [Next: 7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.7.25) - [Up: 7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062~en-mt.7.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2062.7.24) · Pramāṇa