景德傳燈錄 26.40

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隆壽法騫禪師泉州晉江縣人也。姓施氏。母廖氏始娠頓惡葷腥。及長捨於本州開元寺菩提院出家納戒。詣漳州參逸和尚得旨。刺史陳洪銛請開堂住持（隆壽第三世住）上堂謂眾曰。今日隆壽。出世三世諸佛森羅萬象同時出世同時轉法輪。諸人還見麼。僧問。如何是隆壽境。師曰。無汝插足處。曰如何是境中人。師曰。未識境在。有僧到參。至明日入方丈請師心要。師曰。昨日相逢序起居。今朝相見事還如。如何却覓呈心要。心要如何特地疎。

Chan Master Faxian of Longshou was a native of Jinjiang County in Quanzhou. His surname was Shi. When his mother, Lady Liao, first conceived him, she suddenly developed an aversion to meat and pungent roots. When he grew up, he was relinquished to Bodhi Cloister of Kaiyuan Temple in his home prefecture to leave household life and take the precepts. He went to Zhangzhou to call on Upādhyāya [Wu]yi and attained the essential principle. Prefect Chen Hongxian requested him to open the hall and assume the abbacy (the third generation to reside at Longshou). Entering the hall, he addressed the assembly, saying, "Today Longshou appears in the world. The Buddhas of the three periods and the myriad dense phenomena simultaneously appear in the world and simultaneously turn the wheel of the Dharma. Do all of you see it?" A monk asked, "What is the realm of Longshou?" The Master said, "There is no place for you to plant your feet." [The monk] said, "What is the person in the realm?" The Master said, "You do not yet know the realm." There was a monk who arrived to consult him. On the next day he entered the abbot's quarters to request the Master's mind-essential. The Master said, "Yesterday we met and inquired after daily welfare; / Today we meet again and the matter is still as it was. / Why do you instead seek to have the mind-essential presented? / How could the mind-essential be specially estranged?"