景德傳燈錄 17.23

17.23

高安白水本仁禪師自洞山受記。唐天復中遷止洪井高安白水院。眾盈三百玄言流播。因設洞山忌齋。有僧問。供養先師先師還來也無。師曰。更下一分供養著。洪州西山眾行者來禮拜。問曰。今日不為別事乞師指示。師曰。汝諸人求指示耶。對曰是。師曰。教我委付阿誰。鏡清行脚到。師謂之曰。時寒道者。清曰。不敢。師曰。還有臥單得蓋否。曰設有亦無展底工夫。師曰。直饒道者滴水滴凍亦不干他事。曰滴水氷生事不相涉。師曰是。曰此人意作麼生。師曰。此人不落意。曰不落意此人那。師曰。高山頂上無可與道者啗啄。問如何是西來意。師曰。還見庭前杉樧否。曰恁麼即和尚今日因學人致得是非。師曰多口座主。皎然去後。師知是雪峯禪客乃曰。盜法之人終不成器（皎然後住長生山。有僧問。從上宗乘如何舉唱。然曰。不可為闍梨一人荒却長生山也。玄沙聞之曰。然師兄佛法即大行。受記之緣亦就矣。厥後眾緣不備。果如仁和尚所記）。僧問。如何是不遷義。師曰。落華隨流水明月上孤岑。師將順世四眾俱集。營齋聲鍾焚香白眾曰。香煙絕處是吾涅槃時也。言訖跏趺而坐。息隨煙滅。

Chan Master Benren of Baishui in Gao'an received prediction from Dongshan. During the Tianfu era of the Tang, he moved to reside at the Baishui Monastery in Gao'an, Hongjing. The assembly numbered more than three hundred, and his profound words spread widely. On the occasion of holding the memorial feast for Dongshan, a monk asked: 'When making offerings to the late master, does the late master still come or not?' The master said: 'Set down another portion of offerings.' A group of practitioners from the Western Mountain of Hongzhou came to pay homage. They asked: 'Today we have no other business; we beg the master for instruction.' The master said: 'Do you all seek instruction?' They replied: 'Yes.' The master said: 'Whom would you have me entrust it to?' Jingqing arrived on pilgrimage. The master said to him: 'The weather is cold, practitioner.' Qing said: 'I dare not [presume].' The master said: 'Is there still a sleeping sheet to cover yourself with?' Qing said: 'Even if there were, there would be no time to unfold it.' The master said: 'Even if dripping water turned to ice for you, practitioner, it would not concern that other.' Qing said: 'When dripping water freezes into ice, the matters do not concern each other.' The master said: 'Right.' Qing said: 'What is this person's intention?' The master said: 'This person does not fall into intention.' Qing said: 'Not falling into intention, where is this person?' The master said: 'On top of the high mountain, there is nothing to feed you, practitioner.' A monk asked: 'What is the meaning of [the Patriarch's] coming from the West?' The master said: 'Do you see the cedar and dogwood in front of the courtyard or not?' The monk said: 'If so, then today the upādhyāya has incurred right and wrong on account of the student.' The master said: 'Chatterbox lecturer!' After Jiaoran left, the master knew he was a Chan traveler from Xuefeng, and said: 'A person who steals the Dharma will ultimately never become a vessel.' (Later Jiaoran resided at Mount Changsheng. A monk asked: 'How is the ancestral school's vehicle chanted and raised?' Ran said: 'One cannot abandon Mount Changsheng for the sake of just one ācārya.' When Xuansha heard this, he said: 'Elder brother Ran's Buddha-Dharma will greatly prevail, and the conditions for his prediction are also fulfilled.' Afterward, conditions among the assembly were incomplete, exactly as Master Ren had predicted.) A monk asked: 'What is the meaning of non-movement?' The master said: 'Fallen flowers follow the flowing water; the bright moon ascends the solitary peak.' When the master was about to pass away, the fourfold assembly gathered together. They prepared a meal, sounded the bell, and burned incense. He addressed the assembly, saying: 'Where the incense smoke ceases is the time of my nirvāṇa.' Having spoken, he sat cross-legged. His breath ceased with the smoke.