曆代法寶記 1.5

1.5

隋朝第三祖璨禪師。不知何處人。初遇可大師。璨示見大風疾。於眾中見。大師問。汝何處來。今有何事。僧璨對曰。故投和上。可大師語曰。汝大風患人。見我何益。璨對曰。身雖有患。患人心與和上心無別。可大師知璨是非常人。便付囑法及信袈裟。可大師曰。汝善自保愛。吾有難汝須避之。璨大師亦佯狂市肆。後隱舒州司空山。遭周武帝滅佛法。隱𡸣公山十餘年。此山比多足猛獸常損居人。自璨大師至。並移出境。付囑法并袈裟。後時有𡸣禪師。月禪師。定禪師。巖禪師。來至璨大師所云。達摩祖師付囑後。此璨公真神璨也。定惠齊用。深不思議。璨大師遂共諸禪師往羅浮山隱三年。後至大會齋。出告眾人曰。吾今欲食。諸弟子奉。大師食畢。告眾人歎言。坐為寄。唯吾生死自由。一手攀會中樹枝。掩然立化。亦不知年幾。塔廟在𡸣山寺側。弟子甚多。唯道信大師傳衣得法。承後。薛道衡撰牌文。

The third patriarch of the Sui dynasty was Chan Master Can. It is not known where he was from. When he first met Master Ke, Can manifested an appearance of severe leprosy. Meeting him among the assembly, the Great Master asked, "Where do you come from? What is your business now?" Sengcan replied, "I have come specially to take refuge in the Upādhyāya." Master Ke said to him, "You are a person afflicted with severe leprosy; what is the benefit of seeing me?" Can replied, "Although the body is afflicted, between the mind of an afflicted person and the mind of the Upādhyāya there is no difference." Master Ke knew that Can was no ordinary person, and thereupon entrusted to him the Dharma and the kāṣāya of verification. Master Ke said, "Take good care of yourself. I face calamity; you must avoid it." Master Can also feigned madness in the marketplaces, and later hid on Mount Sikong in Shuzhou. Meeting with Emperor Wu of the Zhou's destruction of the Buddha-Dharma, he hid on Mount Wanggong for more than ten years. Formerly, this mountain had many ferocious beasts that constantly harmed the local inhabitants; from the time Master Can arrived, they all moved beyond the borders. He entrusted the Dharma and the kāṣāya. Later, there were Chan Master Wang, Chan Master Yue, Chan Master Ding, and Chan Master Yan, who came to Master Can's place and said, "After Patriarch Bodhidharma's entrustment, this Venerable Can is truly divine Can! Samādhi and wisdom are applied equally, profoundly inconceivable." Master Can then went with the various Chan masters to Mount Luofu to hide for three years. Later, coming to a great vegetarian gathering, he came forward and addressed the crowd, saying, "I now wish to eat." The disciples served him. When the Great Master finished eating, he sighed and addressed the crowd, saying, "Sitting is just temporary lodging; only I have mastery over birth and death." Clasping the branch of a tree in the assembly with one hand, he quietly passed away while standing. Neither was it known how old he was. His stūpa is beside Wangshan Temple. His disciples were very numerous; only Master Daoxin transmitted the robe, attained the Dharma, and succeeded him. Xue Daoheng composed a stela inscription.