大明高僧傳 8.24

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釋道悟號佛光。陝西蘭州冠氏子也。師生即齒髮俱長具大人相。年十六力求出家父母不聽。乃絕食幾死。遂捨入里中寺祝髮。閱二年偶宿臨洮灣子店夢梵僧。振聲喚覺忽聞馬嘶。豁然大悟喜不自勝。說偈曰。見也羅見也羅遍虛空只這個。遂歸告母曰。某於途中拾一物。母問何物。師曰。無始來不見了的。母掌曰。何喜之有。遂辭欲參方去。母問。汝將何之。答曰。水流須到海。鶴出白雲頭。先是熊耳山有白雲海禪師。雖住古剎不畜一徒。人或問。和尚何不擇一法嗣去。海曰。芝蘭秀發獨出西秦。曰幾時至。海曰。行脚了也。師腰包將至。海命侍者鳴鐘集眾曰。我關西弟子來也。然此寺原是郭子儀所建。今渠自來住持。汝當迎之。師方入門。海遙見便云。相公來何暮也。師進前曰諾。海大笑。竟授與衣法令繼其席。自即退隱寺側。先有群盜盤踞劫民受其害。或請海捕之。海曰。非老僧所能也。不久郭公至必自捕也。民弗解其說。後師居寺方三日。乃率眾往擒盡縛之。破其穴將欲盡誅。賊哀乞命。師從容謂曰。汝劫財物傷人命分當死矣。今汝乞命獨不念彼命乎。賊叩首流血願從三寶戒誓不為非。師為說偈剃髮釋之。自是路不拾遺者數十年。人始信師實郭令公之再來也。宋大定二十四年海公歿。師方出主鄭州普照。又遷三鄉竹閣庵。身著白衣跨黃犢吹短笛遊於洛中。甞曰。道我凡耶。曾向聖位中來。道我聖耶。又向凡位中去。道我非凡非聖耶。却向毘盧頂上別有行處。泰和五年於臨洮大勢寺結夏。闡圓覺經謂眾曰。此席將半。吾當行矣。五月十二日晚小參為眾談第一義。晨興呼侍僧曰。我病覓藥去。侍僧將出門。師已蛻矣。上有五色祥雲盤結似蓋。紅光如日彌塞四維三日不散。世壽五十五。僧臘三十有九。弟子舉全身建塔焉。

Shi Daowu, styled Foguang, was a son of the Guan family of Lanzhou in Shaanxi. At birth, his teeth and hair were already long, possessing the marks of a great man. At the age of sixteen, he earnestly sought to go forth from home, but his parents would not allow it; he went on a hunger strike nearly to death, whereupon they yielded and let him enter a local monastery to shave his hair. After two years, he happened to lodge at the Wanzi Inn in Lintao and dreamt of an Indian monk, whose loud cry awakened him; suddenly hearing a horse neigh, he experienced a penetrating great awakening and was overwhelmed with joy. He spoke a gāthā, saying: / "Seen it! Seen it! / Filling empty space, it is only this!" / He then returned and told his mother, "I picked up an object on the road." His mother asked, "What object?" The Master said, "What has been lost since beginningless time." His mother slapped him and said, "What joy is there in that?" He then took his leave, wishing to travel and study. His mother asked, "Where will you go?" He replied, "Water flowing must reach the sea; / The crane emerging flies above the white clouds." Prior to this, on Mount Xiong'er, there was Chan Master Baiyun Hai. Although he resided in an ancient temple, he did not keep a single disciple. Someone asked, "Why does the Master not choose a Dharma heir?" Hai said, "A splendid orchid is flourishing, uniquely emerging from Western Qin." They asked, "When will he arrive?" Hai said, "He has already set out on his pilgrimage." When the Master was about to arrive with his pack, Hai ordered the attendant to strike the bell and assemble the monastic community, saying, "My disciple from Guanxi is coming! Indeed, this monastery was originally built by Guo Ziyi; now he comes in person to serve as abbot. You should welcome him." Just as the Master entered the gate, Hai saw him from afar and said, "My Lord, why have you arrived so late?" The Master stepped forward and said, "Yes." Hai laughed heartily, and at once bestowed the robe and Dharma upon him, ordering him to succeed to the seat, while he himself retired into seclusion beside the monastery. Previously, a band of bandits had entrenched themselves, robbing the common people who suffered harm. Someone had asked Hai to capture them. Hai had said, "This is not something this old monk can do. Soon Duke Guo will arrive and will surely capture them himself." The people did not understand his words. Later, when the Master had resided at the monastery for only three days, he led the assembly to capture them, binding them all. He broke into their den and was about to execute them all. The bandits begged piteously for their lives. The Master calmly said to them, "You rob wealth and harm lives; by right you ought to die. Now you beg for your lives, but do you not think of their lives?" The bandits kowtowed until blood flowed, willing to follow the precepts of the Three Jewels and vowing never to do wrong again. The Master spoke a gāthā for them, shaved their hair, and released them. From then on, for several decades, things dropped on the roads were not picked up. People then began to believe that the Master was truly the rebirth of Duke Guo Linggong. In the twenty-fourth year of Dading of the Jin, Master Hai passed away. Only then did the Master emerge to preside over Puzhao in Zhengzhou, later moving to the Zhuge Hermitage in Sanxiang. Clad in white robes, riding a yellow calf, and playing a short flute, he wandered about Luoyang. He once said, "If you say I am ordinary—I once came from the stage of the noble. If you say I am noble—I again go toward the stage of the ordinary. If you say I am neither ordinary nor noble—yet atop the crown of Vairocana I have another practice!" In the fifth year of Taihe, he spent the summer retreat at Dashishi in Lintao, expounding the Sutra of Perfect Awakening. He said to the assembly, "This session is halfway through; I must depart." On the evening of the twelfth day of the fifth month, at an informal gathering, he spoke of the ultimate truth for the assembly. In the morning he arose, called his attendant monk, and said, "I am ill; go seek medicine." As the attendant was about to go out the door, the Master had already shed his mortal frame. Above, five-colored auspicious clouds coiled like a canopy, and red light like the sun filled the four quarters, not dispersing for three days. His worldly age was fifty-five; his dharma age was thirty-nine. His disciples enshrined his whole body in a stupa.