景德傳燈錄 26.125

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長壽第二世法齊禪師婺州人也。姓丁氏。始講百法因明二論。尋置講遊方。受心印於廣法大師。建隆二年廣法歸寂付授住持。節使錢仁奉禮重請揚真要。有百法座主問。令公請命四眾雲臻。向上宗乘請師舉唱。師曰。百法明門論。曰畢竟作麼生。師曰。一切法無我。問城東老母與佛同生。為什麼却不見佛。師曰。不見即道。曰恁麼即見去也。師曰。城東老母與佛同生。師太平興國三年戊寅捨眾就本院創別室宴居。咸平三年庚子十二月十一日示滅。壽八十九。臘七十二。

Chan Master Faqi, the second generation of Changshou, was a native of Wuzhou. His surname was Ding. At first he lectured on the two treatises of the Hundred Dharmas and Buddhist Logic (Hetuvidyā). Soon he put aside lecturing to travel as an itinerant monk, receiving the mind-seal from Great Master Guangfa. In the second year of the Jianlong era, Guangfa passed into quiescent extinction and entrusted the abbacy to him. The Military Commissioner Qian Renfeng treated him with great reverence and invited him to proclaim the essential truth. A lecturer on the Hundred Dharmas asked: "The Duke has issued an invitation, and the fourfold assembly gathers like clouds. We invite the master to expound the transcendental ancestral vehicle." The master said: "The Treatise on the Gate of Understanding the Hundred Dharmas." The lecturer said: "Ultimately, what is it?" The master said: "All phenomena are without self." He asked: "The old mother east of the city was born at the same time as the Buddha; why did she never see the Buddha?" The master said: "Not seeing is indeed the Way." The monk said: "Then one sees it." The master said: "The old mother east of the city was born at the same time as the Buddha." In the third year of the Taiping Xingguo era, cyclical year wuyin, the master relinquished the assembly, built a separate room in this cloister, and dwelled at ease. On the eleventh day of the twelfth month in the third year of the Xianping era, cyclical year gengzi, he manifested extinction. His age was eighty-nine, his monastic age seventy-two.