景德傳燈錄 2.14

2.14

父母固止之。遂終日不食。乃許其在家。出家號僧伽難提。復命沙門禪利多為之師。積十九載未曾退倦。尊者每自念言。身居王宮胡為出家。一夕天光下屬。見一路坦平不覺徐行。約十里許至大巖前。有石窟焉。乃燕寂于中。父既失子。即擯禪利多出國。訪尋其子不知所在。經十年。尊者得法受記已。行化至摩提國。忽有涼風襲眾身心悅適非常。而不知其然。尊者曰。此道德之風也。當有聖者出世嗣續祖燈乎。言訖。以神力攝諸大眾遊歷山谷。食頃至一峯下謂眾曰。此峯頂有紫雲如蓋。聖人居此矣。即與大眾徘徊久之。見山舍一童子持圓鑑直造尊者前。尊者問。汝幾歲耶。曰百歲。尊者曰。汝年尚幼何言百歲。曰我不會理正百歲耳。尊者曰。汝善機耶。曰佛言若人生百歲。不會諸佛機。未若生一日。而得決了之。師曰。汝手中者當何所表。童曰。諸佛大圓鑑內外無瑕翳。兩人同得見心眼皆相似。彼父母聞子語。即捨令出家。尊者携至本處。受具戒訖。名伽耶舍多。他時聞風吹殿銅鈴聲。尊者問師曰。鈴鳴耶風鳴耶。師曰。非風非鈴我心鳴耳。尊者曰。心復誰乎。師曰。俱寂靜故。尊者曰。善哉善哉。繼吾道者非子而誰。即付法偈曰。

His parents firmly restrained him. Thereupon he did not eat for the whole day. They then permitted him to leave household life at home, naming him Saṃghanandi. They also ordered the śramaṇa Shanliduō to be his master. For nineteen years he never slackened or wearied. The Venerable One often reflected to himself: 'Dwelling in the royal palace, why is this leaving the household life?' One evening a heavenly light descended upon him. He saw a flat, even path and unawares walked slowly along it. After about ten leagues, he arrived before a great cliff where there was a stone cave. He then resided in quietude within it. His father, having lost his son, banished Shanliduō from the country and searched for his son without finding where he was. After ten years, the Venerable One, having obtained the Dharma and received the prediction, was traveling and teaching in the country of Madra. Suddenly a cool breeze blew over the assembly; their bodies and minds felt extraordinarily comfortable and pleasant, without their knowing why. The Venerable One said: 'This is the wind of the Dao and virtue. Must there be a holy one appearing in the world to succeed the ancestral lamp?' Having spoken, he took the great assembly with supernormal power to travel through mountains and valleys. In the time of a meal, he arrived beneath a peak and addressed the assembly, saying: 'Above the summit of this peak are purple clouds like a canopy. A holy person dwells here.' He then paced back and forth with the great assembly for a long time. They saw a young boy from a mountain house holding a round mirror come straight before the Venerable One. The Venerable One asked, 'How old are you?' He replied, 'A hundred years old.' The Venerable One said, 'Your age is still tender; why do you say a hundred years old?' He replied, 'If I do not understand the principle, I am precisely a hundred years old.' The Venerable One asked, 'Are you skilled in faculties and conditions?' He replied, 'The Buddha said: "If a person lives for a hundred years without understanding the faculties of the Buddhas, it is not as good as living for one day and obtaining a decisive comprehension of them."' The master said, 'What does that which is in your hand signify?' The boy said, 'The great round mirror of the Buddhas has no flaw or obscuration inside or outside. Two people see it together; their minds and eyes are both alike.' When his parents heard their son's words, they at once gave him up to leave household life. The Venerable One took him back to his original place, and after he received the full precepts, he was named Gayāśata. At another time, hearing the wind blow the copper chimes of the hall, the Venerable One asked the master, 'Is the chime sounding, or is the wind sounding?' The master replied, 'It is neither the wind nor the chime; it is only my mind that sounds.' The Venerable One said, 'And who is the mind?' The master replied, 'Both are tranquil.' The Venerable One said, 'Excellent, excellent! Who other than you can succeed to my Way?' He then transmitted the Dharma with a gāthā, saying: