景德傳燈錄 26.72

26.72

杭州龍冊寺第五世住曉榮禪師溫州白鹿人也。姓鄧氏。幼依瑞鹿寺出家登戒。聞天台國師盛化。遂入山參禮受心法。初住杭州富陽淨福院。後住龍冊寺。二處皆聚徒開法。僧問。祖祖相傳未審和尚傳阿誰。師曰。汝還識得祖未。僧慧文問。如何是真實沙門。師曰。汝是慧文。問如何是般若大神珠。師曰。般若大神珠分形萬億軀。塵塵彰妙體剎剎盡毘盧。問日用事如何。師曰。一念周沙界。日用萬般通。湛然常寂滅。常轉自家風。師一日坐妙善臺受大眾小參。有僧問。向上事即不問。如何是妙善臺中的的意。師曰。若到諸方分明舉似。曰恁麼即雲有出山勢水無投㵎聲。師乃叱之。師淳化元年庚寅八月二十九日於秀州靈光寺淨土院歸寂。預告門人致書辭同道。壽七十一。臘五十六。

Chan Master Xiaorong, the fifth-generation abbot of Longce Temple in Hangzhou, was a native of Bailu in Wenzhou. His surname was Deng. In his youth, he left home at Ruilu Temple and received the precepts. Hearing of the flourishing teaching of the State Preceptor of Tiantai, he then entered the mountain to pay homage and receive the mind-dharma. First he dwelled at Jingfu Courtyard in Fuyang, Hangzhou, and later dwelled at Longce Temple. In both places, he gathered disciples and opened the Dharma. A monk asked, "Patriarch transmits to patriarch; I do not yet know whom the venerable monk transmits to." The master said, "Do you still recognize the patriarchs yet?" The monk Huiwen asked, "What is a genuine śramaṇa?" The master said, "You are Huiwen." A monk asked, "What is the great divine jewel of prajñā?" The master said, "The great divine jewel of prajñā divides its form into ten thousand koṭīs of bodies; / Dust by dust manifests its wondrous substance, land by land is entirely Vairocana." A monk asked, "How is daily activity?" The master said, "A single thought encompasses the sands of realms; / Daily activity penetrates all the ten thousand ways. / Serene, it is constantly extinguished in stillness; / Constantly turning one's own house style." One day the master sat upon the Platform of Wondrous Goodness to receive the great assembly for an informal gathering. A monk asked, "I do not ask about the transcendental matter; what is the exact meaning on the Platform of Wondrous Goodness?" The master said, "If you go to the various quarters, recount it clearly." The monk said, "If so, then the clouds have the posture of coming out of the mountains, and the water has no sound of plunging into the ravine." The master then scolded him. On the twenty-ninth day of the eighth month in the year gengyin, the first year of the Chunhua era, the master returned to silence at Jingtu Courtyard of Lingguang Temple in Xiuzhou. In advance, he notified his disciples to send letters taking leave of his fellow practitioners of the Way. He lived seventy-one years, with fifty-six years of monastic age.