景德傳燈錄 26.67

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杭州普門寺希辯禪師蘇州常熟人也。幼出家禮本邑延福院啟祥禪師落髮具戒。詣楞伽山聽律。尋謁天台受心印。乾德初吳越忠懿王命住越州清泰院。署慧智禪師。開寶中復召入居普門寺（即第二世住）師上堂曰。山僧素乏知見。復寡聞持。頃雖侍坐於山中。和尚亦不蒙一句開示。以至今與諸仁者聚會。更無一法可相助發。何況能為諸仁者。區別緇素商量古今。還怪得山僧麼。若有怪者且道。此人具眼不具眼。有賓主義無賓主義。晚學初機必須審細。時有僧問。如何是普門示現神通事。師曰。恁麼即闍梨怪老僧也。曰不怪時如何。師曰。汝且下堂裏思惟去。太平興國三年吳越王入覲。師隨寶塔至見于滋福殿。賜紫號慧明大師。端拱中上言願還故里。詔從之賜御製詩。及忠懿王施金。於常熟本山院創塼浮圖七級高二百尺。功既就。至道三年八月二十五日示疾而逝。壽七十七。臘六十三。塔于院之西北隅。

Chan Master Xibian of Pumen Temple in Hangzhou was a native of Changshu in Suzhou. In his youth, he went forth from home, shaved his head, and received the full precepts under Chan Master Qixiang of Yanfu Cloister in his home district. He went to Mount Laṅkā to study the Vinaya. Soon he visited Tiantai and received the mind-seal. At the beginning of the Qiande era, King Zhongyi of Wuyue ordered him to reside at Qingtai Cloister in Yuezhou, granting him the title Chan Master Huizhi. During the Kaibao era, he was summoned again to reside at Pumen Temple (as the second generation to reside [there]). The Master went up to the hall and said, "This mountain monk has always lacked knowledge and views and has had little learning to retain. Although I formerly attended upon the upādhyāya in the mountains, I did not receive even a single phrase of instruction from him. And so today, meeting with you benevolent ones, there is not a single dharma with which I can assist or inspire you. How much less could I distinguish black from white or discuss ancient and modern for you benevolent ones! Do you still blame this mountain monk? If anyone blames me, tell me: does this person possess the eye or not possess the eye? Is there the meaning of guest and host, or is there no meaning of guest and host? Later students and beginners must investigate minutely." At that time, a monk asked, "What is the matter of Pumen's manifestation of spiritual penetrations?" The Master said, "If so, the ācārya blames this old monk." [The monk] said, "What about when there is no blame?" The Master said, "Go down to the hall for now and reflect on it." In the third year of the Taiping Xingguo era, when the King of Wuyue had an imperial audience, the Master accompanied the precious stūpa to an audience at the Zifu Palace, receiving a purple robe and the title Great Master Huiming. During the Duangong era, he submitted a memorial requesting permission to return to his hometown. An imperial decree granted this, bestowing imperial poems, and King Zhongyi donated gold. At his home mountain cloister in Changshu, they built a seven-tiered brick stūpa two hundred feet high. After the work was completed, on the twenty-fifth day of the eighth month of the third year of the Zhidao era, he manifested illness and passed away. He was seventy-seven years of age, with sixty-three rains retreats. A stūpa was erected at the northwest corner of the cloister.