景德傳燈錄 2.20

2.20

第十九祖鳩摩羅多者。大月氏國婆羅門之子也。昔為自在天人（欲界第六天）見菩薩瓔珞。忽起愛心墮生忉利（欲界第二天）聞憍尸迦說般若波羅蜜多。以法勝故升于梵天（色界）以根利故善說法要。諸天尊為導師以繼祖。時至遂降月氏。後至中天竺國。有大士名闍夜多。問曰。我家父母素信三寶而嘗縈疾瘵。凡所營作皆不如意。而我隣家久為旃陀羅行。而身常勇健所作和合。彼何幸而我何辜。尊者曰。何足疑乎。且善惡之報有三時焉。凡人恒見仁夭暴壽逆吉義凶。便謂亡因果虛罪福。殊不知影響相隨毫釐靡忒。縱經百千萬劫亦不磨滅。時闍夜多聞是語已。頓釋所疑。尊者曰。汝雖已信三業。而未明業從惑生。惑因識有。識依不覺。不覺依心。心本清淨無生滅無造作。無報應無勝負。寂寂然靈靈然。汝若入此法門可與諸佛同矣。一切善惡有為無為皆如夢幻。闍夜多承言領旨。即發宿慧懇求出家。既受具。尊者告曰。吾今寂滅時至。汝當紹行化迹。乃付法眼。偈曰。

The nineteenth patriarch was Kumāralata, the son of a Brahmin of the Great Yuezhi country. In the past, he was a devaputra in the Heaven of Sovereignty over Others' Transformations (the sixth heaven of the desire realm). Seeing a bodhisattva's necklace, he suddenly gave rise to attachment and fell to be born in Trāyastriṃśa (the second heaven of the desire realm). Hearing Kauśika expound the Prajñāpāramitā, because the Dharma was supreme, he ascended to the Brahmā Heaven (the form realm). Because his faculties were sharp, he was skilled at explaining the essentials of the Dharma. The devas revered him as a guide to succeed the patriarchs. When the time arrived, he descended to Yuezhi. Later he arrived in Central India. There was a great being named Jayata who asked: 'The parents of my family have always had faith in the Three Jewels, yet they often suffer from illness and wasting disease, and whatever they undertake turns out badly. Meanwhile, my neighbour has long engaged in the conduct of a caṇḍāla, yet his body is always robust and healthy, and all that he does flourishes. Why is he so fortunate while I am so blameless?' The Venerable One said: 'Why should you doubt? The retribution of good and evil occurs in three periods of time. Ordinary people always see the benevolent dying young and the violent living long, the rebellious meeting fortune and the righteous meeting misfortune; then they claim that cause and effect are absent, and sin and merit are empty. Little do they know that retribution follows like shadow and echo, without the slightest error. Even after hundreds of thousands of myriads of kalpas, it is never obliterated.' At that time, hearing these words, Jayata instantly resolved his doubts. The Venerable One said: 'Although you already have faith in the three karmas, you have not understood that karma arises from delusion, delusion exists on account of consciousness, consciousness relies on non-enlightenment, and non-enlightenment relies on mind. The mind is fundamentally pure, without arising or ceasing, without fabrication, without retribution, without victory or defeat, tranquil and luminous. If you enter this dharma-gate, you can be equal to all Buddhas. All good and evil, conditioned and unconditioned, are like dreams and illusions.' Receiving his words and grasping the purport, Jayata at once brought forth innate wisdom and earnestly sought to leave the household life. After he received the full precepts, the Venerable One told him: 'The time of my extinction has now arrived. You should succeed to the traces of teaching and conversion.' He then transmitted to him the correct Dharma eye, uttering a gāthā: