大明高僧傳 8.31

8.31

釋顯嵩西蜀重慶銅梁李氏子。飽參倦遊出世住巴川之宣密院。三十年跡不出閫。紹興中集眾說偈曰。八十年中甞浩浩宏開肆貨摩尼寶也。無一個共商量。不是山僧收舖早。言訖端坐而逝。荼毘舍利無算。時有淨業和尚。石照文氏子。少業屠。有羊方乳二羔。將殺之。二羔銜其刀跪伏於門。若乞母命。師感歎棄家為僧。力參宗匠忽大悟作偈曰。昨日羅剎心。今朝菩薩面。羅剎與菩薩。不隔一條線。

Shi Xiansong was a son of the Li family of Tongliang, Chongqing, in Western Shu. Thoroughly experienced and weary of travel, he appeared in the world to reside at Xuanmi Cloister in Bachuan. For thirty years, his footsteps never went beyond the threshold. During the Shaoxing era, he gathered the assembly and spoke a gāthā, saying: / "For eighty years, surging and vast, / Opening wide a shop to sell the mani jewel. / There is not a single person to negotiate together; / It is not that this mountain monk closes shop too early." / Having finished speaking, he sat upright and passed away. After jhāpita, the śarīra were countless. At that time there was Master Jingye, a son of the Wen family of Shizhao. In his youth he was a butcher by trade. There was a sheep just giving suck to two lambs; as he was about to slaughter her, the two lambs held his knife in their mouths and knelt down before the door, as if begging for their mother's life. Deeply moved, the Master abandoned his family to become a monk. He vigorously investigated under Chan masters and suddenly had a great awakening, composing a gāthā: / "Yesterday, a rākṣasa's mind; / Today, a bodhisattva's face. / Between rākṣasa and bodhisattva, / Not even a single thread divides."