景德傳燈錄 21.51

21.51

復州資福院智遠禪師福州連江人也。童蒙出家。詣峽山觀音院法宣禪師落髮受具。給侍勤恪專於誦持。一日宣禪師謂曰。觀汝上根堪任大事。何不遍參而滯於此乎。師遂禮辭歷諸方。至越州鏡清禮順德大師。因問曰。如何是諸佛出身處。順德曰。大家要知。師曰。斯則眾眼難謾。順德曰。理能縛豹。師因此發悟玄旨。周顯德三年丙辰復州刺史率僚吏及緇黃千眾。請師於資福院開堂說法（時謂東禪院）僧問。師唱誰家曲宗風嗣阿誰。師曰。雪嶺峯前月鏡湖波裏明。問諸佛出世天雨四華地搖六動。和尚今日有何禎祥。師曰。一物不生全體露。目前光彩阿誰知。問如何是直示一句。師曰。是什麼。師又曰。還會麼。會去即今便了。不會塵沙算劫。只據諸賢分上。古佛心源明露現前。匝天遍地森羅萬象自己家風。佛與眾生本無差別。涅槃生死幻化所為。性地真常不勞修證。師又曰。要知此事當陽顯露。並無寸草蓋覆。便承當取最省心力。師如是為眾涉于二十二載。太平興國二年丁丑九月十六日聲鍾辭眾。至二十七日辰時恬然坐化。壽八十三。臘六十三。

Zen Master Zhiyuan of Zifu Monastery in Fuzhou was a native of Lianjiang in Fuzhou. He left the household in his youth, going to Zen Master Faxuan at Guanyin Monastery on Mount Xiashan to shave his head and receive full ordination. He served diligently and respectfully, focusing on recitation. One day Zen Master Xuan said to him, "Seeing your superior faculties, you are capable of undertaking the great matter. Why do you not travel and study widely, instead of stagnating here?" The master then bowed, took his leave, and traveled through various regions. Arriving at Jingqing in Yuezhou, he paid homage to Great Master Shunde. He then asked, "What is the place where all Buddhas make their appearance in the world?" Shunde said, "Everyone wants to know." The master said, "If so, the eyes of the multitude are hard to deceive." Shunde said, "Principle can bind a leopard." Because of this, the master awakened to the profound purport. In the third year of Xiande of the Zhou dynasty (bingchen), the prefect of Fuzhou led officials, monks, and Taoists, a thousand people in all, to invite the master to open the hall and preach the Dharma at Zifu Monastery (at that time called Dongchan Monastery). A monk asked, "Whose song does the master sing? Whose tradition of the school do you inherit?" The master said, "The moon before the snow peak; bright within the waves of Mirror Lake." [A monk] asked, "When Buddhas appear in the world, heaven rains four kinds of flowers and the earth quakes in six ways. What auspicious sign does the upādhyāya have today?" The master said, "Not a single thing arises, yet the whole body is exposed. Who knows the radiance before their eyes?" [A monk] asked, "What is the phrase that points directly?" The master said, "What is it?" The master also said, "Do you understand? If you understand it, you are finished right now. If you do not understand, it will take kalpas counted in dust and sand. Merely based on the lot of you worthy ones, the mind-source of ancient Buddhas is clearly exposed and manifest right before you. Filling heaven and covering earth, the myriad forms and phenomena are your own house style. Buddhas and sentient beings originally have no difference. Nirvāṇa, birth, and death are the workings of phantom illusions. The true constancy of the nature-ground does not require cultivation and realization." The master also said, "If you wish to know this matter, it is clearly exposed in broad daylight, without an inch of grass covering it. Simply take it upon yourselves; it saves the most effort." In this way the master served the assembly for twenty-two years. On the sixteenth day of the ninth month in the second year of Taiping Xingguo (dingchou), he sounded the bell to take leave of the assembly. On the twenty-seventh day, at the hour of the dragon, he calmly sat and passed away. His age was eighty-three; his monastic age was sixty-three."