景德傳燈錄 20.60

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杭州瑞龍院幼璋禪師。唐相國夏矦孜之猶子也。大中初伯父司空出鎮廣陵。師方七歲遊慧照寺。聞諷蓮經志求出家。伯父初不允。因絕不飲食。不得已而許之。禮慧遠為師。十七具戒。二十五遊諸禪會。薯山白水咸受心訣。二宗匠深器之。咸通十三年至江陵。會騰騰和尚囑之曰。汝往天台尋靜而棲遇安即止。又值憨憨和尚撫而記曰。汝却後四十年。有巾子下菩薩王於江南。當此時吾道昌矣。二逸士各有密言授之。尋抵天台山於靜安鄉創福唐院。乃契騰騰之言。又眾請住隱龍院。中和四年浙東饑疫。師於溫台明三郡。收瘞遺骸數千。時謂悲增大士。乾寧中雪峯和尚經遊。遺師椶櫚拂子而去。天祐三年錢尚父遣使童建齎衣服香藥入山致請。師領徒至府庭。署志德大師。就功臣堂安置。日親問法師請每年於天台山建金光明道場。諸郡黑白大會逾月而散（光明大會始於師也）師將辭歸山。王加戀慕於府城建瑞龍院（文穆王改為寶山院）延請開法。時禪門興盛。斯則憨憨懸記應矣。師上堂謂眾曰。老僧頃年遊歷江外嶺南荊湖但有知識叢林無不參問來。蓋為今日與諸人聚會。各要知箇去處。然諸方終無異說。只教當人歇却狂心休從他覓。但隨方任真亦無真可任。隨時受用亦無時可用。設垂慈苦口。且不可呼晝作夜。更饒善巧。終不能指東為西。脫或能爾。自是神通作怪非干我事。若是學語之輩不自省己知非直。欲向空裏采華波中取月。還著得心力麼。汝今各且退思忽然肯去。始知瑞龍老漢事不獲已迂迴太甚。還肯麼。時有僧。問如何是瑞龍境。師曰。汝道不見得麼。曰如何是境中人。師曰。後生可畏。問廓然無雲如何是中秋月。師曰。最好是無雲。曰恁麼即一輪高掛萬國同觀去也。師曰。揑目之子難與言至。天成二年丁亥夏四月師乞墳塔。尚父命陸仁璋。於西關選勝地建塔創院。賜名額令僧守護。仍改天台隱龍為隱迹。修塔畢。師入府庭辭尚父。囑以護法恤民之事。剋期順寂。尚父悲悼遣僧主集在城宿德迎引入塔。壽八十有七。臘七十。

Chan Master Youzhang of Ruilong Monastery in Hangzhou was a nephew of Tang Chancellor Xiahou Zi. In the early Dazhong era, his uncle, the Sikong, went out to garrison Guangling. The Master, being only seven years old, visited Huizhao Monastery. Hearing the Lotus Sūtra chanted, he resolved to leave home. At first his uncle would not allow it, so the Master completely stopped eating and drinking. Having no other choice, [his uncle] permitted it. He bowed to Huiyuan as his master. At seventeen he received full ordination. At twenty-five he traveled among various Chan assemblies; at Shushan and Baishui he received the mind-instruction from both, and the two great masters thought highly of him. In the thirteenth year of Xiantong, he arrived in Jiangling, where he met Master Tengteng, who instructed him, saying: 'Go to Tiantai; seek peace (jing) and lodge there, and when you meet tranquility (an), stop.' He also met Master Hanhan, who stroked him and prophesied: 'Forty years after this, a bodhisattva with a headcloth will rule south of the Yangtze. At that time, our Way will flourish.' The two recluses each transmitted secret words to him. Soon he reached Mount Tiantai, and in Jing'an township he founded Futang Monastery, fulfilling Tengteng's words. Later, the assembly requested him to dwell at Yinlong Monastery. In the fourth year of Zhonghe, Eastern Zhe suffered famine and pestilence; the Master gathered and buried several thousand corpses across the three commanderies of Wen, Tai, and Ming. At the time, people called him a Great Being of Boundless Compassion. During the Qianning era, Master Xuefeng passed through on his travels and left the Master a palm-fiber whisk before departing. In the third year of Tianyou, Lord Protector of the State Qian sent an emissary, Tong Jian, bearing clothing, incense, and medicine, to enter the mountains and extend an invitation. The Master led his disciples to the provincial court. He was granted the title Great Master Zhide and lodged in the Hall of Meritorious Officials. Every day [the Prince] personally inquired about the Dharma. The Master requested that every year a Golden Radiance Bodhimanda be established on Mount Tiantai, where large assemblies of monastics and laity from various commanderies dispersed only after more than a month. (The Great Light assemblies began with the Master.) When the Master was about to take his leave to return to the mountains, the Prince, feeling increasingly fond of him, built Ruilong Monastery in the provincial city (King Wenmu renamed it Baoshan Monastery) and invited him to open the Dharma. At that time, the Chan gate flourished greatly; this was the fulfillment of Hanhan's prophecy. The Master ascended the hall and addressed the assembly, saying: 'In past years, this old monk traveled across the river, south of the ranges, and through Jing and Hu. Wherever there were kalyāṇamitras and monasteries, there was none I did not visit and question. This was only so that today, when gathered with you all, each of you would know a place to go. Yet everywhere, in the end, there is no different teaching: they only teach each person to rest their mad mind and stop seeking from others. Just accord with your place and yield to what is true—yet there is no truth to be yielded to. Accord with the time and make use of it—yet there is no time to be used. Even if one were to offer compassionate, bitter advice, one cannot call day night. Even with all possible skillful means, one ultimately cannot point east as west. If one could somehow do so, that would merely be supernatural powers playing tricks, which has nothing to do with my business. If you are people who merely parrot words, not examining yourselves to recognize that you are not direct, and wishing to pluck flowers from the sky or scoop the moon from the waves, how could any mental effort be applied? For now, each of you step back and reflect. If you suddenly agree, only then will you know that this old fellow of Ruilong had no choice and took a terribly roundabout way. Do you agree?' At that time, a monk asked: 'What is the realm of Ruilong?' The Master said: 'Can you say it is not visible?' The monk asked: 'Who is the person within the realm?' The Master said: 'The youth is to be held in awe.' The monk asked: 'When vast and cloudless, what is the Mid-Autumn moon?' The Master said: 'Best of all is being cloudless.' The monk said: 'If so, then a single orb hangs high, and ten thousand nations gaze on it together.' The Master said: 'To someone who pinches their eyes, it is difficult to speak of the utmost.' In the second year of Tiancheng, a dinghai year, in the fourth month of summer, the Master requested a funerary stupa. The Lord Protector ordered Lu Renzhang to select a fine site at the Western Pass to build a stupa and establish a monastery, conferring a name plaque and ordering monks to guard it; furthermore, he changed Tiantai's Yinlong to Yinji. When the stupa was completed, the Master entered the provincial court to take leave of the Lord Protector, entrusting him with the matters of protecting the Dharma and showing compassion to the people. At the appointed time, he passed away in peace. Mourning deeply, the Lord Protector dispatched monastic officials to gather the senior elders in the city to welcome and escort [the Master's body] into the stupa. He was eighty-seven years old, with seventy monastic years.