景德傳燈錄 24.45

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廬山歸宗第十二世道詮禪師吉州安福人也。姓劉氏。生惡葷血。髫齓禮本州思和尚受業。聞慧輪和尚化被長沙。時馬氏竊據荊楚與建康接壤。師年二十五結友冒險遠來參尋。會馬氏滅劉言有其他。以王逵代劉言領其事。逵疑師江表諜者。乃令捕執將沈于江。師怡然無怖。逵異之。且詢輪和尚。輪曰。斯皆為法忘軀之人也。聞老僧虛譽故來決擇耳。逵悅而釋之。仍加禮重。師棲泊延壽經十稔。輪和尚歸寂。乃迴廬山開先駐錫。乾德初於山東南牛首峯下。結茆為室。開寶五年洪帥林仁肇請居筠陽九峯隆濟院。闡揚宗旨。本國賜大沙門號。僧問。承聞和尚親見延壽來是否。師曰。山前麥熟也未。問九峯山中還有佛法也無。師曰有。曰如何是九峯山中佛法。師曰。山中石頭大底大小底小。尋屬江南國絕。僧徒例試經業。師之徒眾並習禪觀。乃述一偈聞于州牧曰。

Chan Master Daoquan, the twelfth generation of Guizong on Mount Lu, was a native of Anfu in Jizhou. His family name was Liu. From birth he abhorred meat and blood. While still a boy, he paid homage to Master Si of his home prefecture and received training. Hearing that Upādhyāya Huilun's teaching was spreading in Changsha—at that time the Ma clan had usurped Jingchu, which bordered Jiankang—the Master, at the age of twenty-five, joined with companions and braved danger, coming from afar to visit and seek him out. It happened that when the Ma clan was destroyed, Liu Yan had other [ambitions], and Wang Kui was sent to replace Liu Yan in presiding over the matter. Kui suspected that the Master was a spy from south of the Yangtze, so he ordered him seized and was about to drown him in the river. The Master remained serene and without fear. Kui marveled at this and questioned Upādhyāya Lun. Lun said: "These are all people who forget their bodies for the sake of the Dharma. Hearing the false praise of this old monk, he came only to resolve his doubts." Kui was pleased and released him, further according him courteous respect. The Master resided at Yanshou for ten years. When Upādhyāya Lun returned to quiescence, the Master returned to Mount Lu and stayed at Kaixian. At the beginning of the Qiande era, beneath Niushou Peak in the southeast of the mountain, he thatched grass to make a hut. In the fifth year of the Kaibao era, Commander Lin Renzhao of Hongzhou invited him to reside at Longji Cloister on Mount Jiufeng in Yunyang to elucidate the tenets of the school. The state conferred on him the title of Great Śramaṇa. A monk asked: "I have heard that you met Yanshou in person, Upādhyāya. Is that so?" The Master said: "Is the wheat before the mountain ripe yet?" The monk asked: "Is there still the Buddha-Dharma on Mount Jiufeng or not?" The Master said: "There is." The monk asked: "What is the Buddha-Dharma on Mount Jiufeng?" The Master said: "Among the stones on the mountain, the large are large, the small are small." Soon after, the Southern Tang fell, and the monks were routinely subjected to examinations on the scriptures. The Master's disciples all practiced Chan meditation. He then composed a verse and presented it to the prefect: