神僧傳 8.54

8.54

無著文喜禪師。入五臺山求見文殊。忽見山翁。著揖曰。願見文殊大士。翁曰。大士未可見。汝飯未。著曰未。翁引入一寺引著升堂命坐。童子進玳瑁杯。貯物如酥酪。著飲之覺心神清朗。翁曰。南方佛法如何住持。著曰。末代比丘少奉戒律。曰多少眾。曰或三百或五百。著問。此間佛法如何住持。曰龍蛇混雜凡聖同居。曰眾幾何。曰前三三後三三。遂談論及暮。翁命童子引著出。行未遠悽然悟翁即文殊也。不可再見。稽首童子乞一言為別。童子有無垢無染即真常之語。言訖童子與寺俱隱。但見五色雲中文殊乘金毛獅子往來。白雲忽覆之不見。

Chan Master Wuzhuo Wenxi entered Mount Wutai seeking to see Mañjuśrī. Suddenly he saw an old mountain man. Zhuo bowed with hands clasped and said, "I wish to see the Great Being Mañjuśrī." The old man said, "The Great Being cannot be seen yet. Have you eaten?" Zhuo said, "Not yet." The old man led him into a monastery, guided Zhuo up into the hall, and bade him sit. A boy presented a tortoiseshell cup containing something like curdled milk. Zhuo drank it and felt his mind become clear and lucid. The old man said, "How is the Buddha-dharma maintained in the south?" Zhuo said, "Monks in the final age seldom uphold the monastic precepts." [The old man] asked, "How large are the assemblies?" [Zhuo] said, "Three hundred or five hundred." Zhuo asked, "How is the Buddha-dharma maintained here?" [The old man] said, "Dragons and snakes are intermingled; commoners and sages dwell together." [Zhuo] asked, "How large is the assembly?" [The old man] said, "The front three-three, the back three-three." They then conversed until dusk. The old man instructed the boy to guide Zhuo out. Before he had gone far, he realized with sorrow that the old man was none other than Mañjuśrī, whom he could not see again. He bowed to the boy and begged for a word of parting. The boy spoke the words: "Free from defilement and pollution is the truly eternal." When he finished speaking, the boy and the monastery vanished together. He saw only Mañjuśrī riding a golden-haired lion back and forth amidst five-colored clouds, until white clouds suddenly covered him and he could no longer be seen.