景德傳燈錄 20.57

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京兆重雲智暉禪師咸秦人也。姓高氏。總角之歲好遊佛宇。誓志出家父不能止。禮圭峯溫和尚剃度。後謁高安仁和尚。獨領微言潛通祕鍵。尋迴洛卜于中灘創溫室院常施藥。有比丘患白癩眾惡之。惟師延迎供養與摩洗垢穢。斯須有神光異香。既而辭去遂失所在。所遺瘡痂馨香酷烈。遂聚而塑觀音像以藏之。梁開平五年忽思林泉。乃歸終南圭峯舊居。師一日閑步。巖岫間倏覩摩衲數珠銅瓶椶笠。觸之即壞。謂侍者曰。此吾前身道具耳。欲就茲建寺以醻昔因。當薙草開基有祥雲蔽日。屯于峯頂久而不散。因目為重雲山。先是谷多猛獸皆自引去。及塞龍潭以通徑。潭中龍亦徙他所。後唐明宗賜額曰長興。學侶臻萃。師上堂有僧問。如何是歸根得旨。師曰。早是忘却。問不意塵生如何是進身一路。師曰。足下已生草前程萬丈坑。問要路坦然如何履踐。師曰。我若指汝則東西南北去也。問佛未出世時如何。師曰。一堆泥土。問如何是重雲稱。師曰。任將天下勘。問如何是截鐵之言。師曰。寧死不犯。問如何是重雲境。師曰四時不開華三冬盛芳草。師再歸故山創寺聚徒。涉四十五年。誨人之暇撰歌頌千餘首。度弟子一千五百人。永興節度使王彥超。早遊師戶庭嘗欲披緇。師止之曰。汝後當榮顯為教門外護則可矣。厥後果如師言。及鎮永興與師再會益加尊禮。周顯德三年丙辰夏六月師詣府辭王公屬以山門事。至七月二十四日體中無恙。垂誡門人併示一偈曰。

Chan Master Chongyun Zhihui of Jingzhao was a native of Xianqin. His surname was Gao. When he was a youth with his hair tied in tufts, he loved wandering in Buddhist monasteries. He vowed to leave home, and his father could not stop him. He bowed to Upādhyāya Wen of Guifeng to receive tonsure. Later he visited Upādhyāya Ren of Gao'an; he alone grasped the subtle words and secretly penetrated the secret key. Soon he returned to Luoyang, settled at Zhongtan, and founded the Wenshi Cloister, where he often gave medicine. There was a monk suffering from white leprosy, whom the assembly loathed. Only the Master welcomed him, made offerings to him, and washed away his filth. Shortly after, there was a divine light and extraordinary fragrance; when [the monk] took leave and departed, his whereabouts were lost. The scabs he left behind were intensely fragrant; [the Master] thereupon gathered them and sculpted a Guanyin statue to enshrine them. In the fifth year of the Kaiping era of the Liang dynasty, he suddenly longed for the forests and springs, so he returned to his old dwelling at Guifeng on Mount Zhongnan. One day, while strolling leisurely among the cliffs and peaks, the Master suddenly saw a patch-robe, prayer beads, a copper water-bottle, and a palm-fiber hat. Upon touching them, they crumbled immediately. He said to his attendant, "These are simply tools from my previous life. I wish to build a monastery here to repay my past causes." As he cut the grass to lay the foundations, an auspicious cloud obscured the sun, gathering on the peak and remaining long without dispersing; hence, it was named Mount Chongyun. Before this, the valley had many fierce beasts, all of which withdrew on their own; when he blocked the dragon pool to open a path, the dragon in the pool also moved elsewhere. Later, Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang granted the plaque reading "Changxing". Disciples gathered like clouds. The Master ascended the hall, and a monk asked, "What is returning to the root and obtaining the principle?" The Master said, "Already forgotten." The monk asked, "Dust unintentionally arises; what is the path for advancing?" The Master said, "Grass has already grown under your feet; ahead lies an abyss of ten thousand fathoms." The monk asked, "The essential road is level; how is it to be trodden?" The Master said, "If I point it out to you, you will go east, west, south, and north." The monk asked, "What was it like before the Buddha appeared in the world?" The Master said, "A pile of mud." The monk asked, "What is the balance-scale of Chongyun?" The Master said, "Let it test the whole world." The monk asked, "What are iron-severing words?" The Master said, "Preferring death rather than transgression." The monk asked, "What is the environment of Chongyun?" The Master said, "In the four seasons, flowers do not blossom; in the three months of winter, fragrant grasses flourish." The Master returned again to his old mountain, founded a monastery, and gathered followers, spanning forty-five years. In his leisure from instructing people, he composed more than a thousand songs and verses of praise, and ordained one thousand five hundred disciples. Wang Yanchao, the military commissioner of Yongxing, had visited the Master's gate early on and once wished to don the black robes. The Master stopped him, saying, "You will later become prominent and can serve as an external protector of the teaching; that will suffice." Later, it turned out just as the Master said. When he governed Yongxing, he met the Master again and treated him with even greater reverence. In the third year of the Xiande era of the Zhou dynasty, a bingchen year, in the sixth month of summer, the Master went to the prefecture to take leave of Lord Wang and entrusted him with the affairs of the mountain monastery. On the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, being free from illness in his body, he delivered admonitions to his disciples and presented a gāthā, saying: