景德傳燈錄 27.2

27.2

寶誌禪師金城人也。姓朱氏。少出家止道林寺修習禪定。宋泰始初忽居止無定飲食無時。髮長數寸徒跣執錫杖。頭擐剪刀尺銅鑑。或掛一兩尺帛。數日不食無飢容。時或歌吟詞如讖記。士庶皆共事之。齊永明七年。武帝謂師惑眾收付建康獄。既旦人見其入市。及檢獄如故。建康令以事聞。帝延於宮中之後堂。師在華林園忽一日重著三布帽。亦不知於何所得之。俄豫章王文惠太子相繼薨。武帝尋厭世齊亦以於季矣。由是禁師出入。梁高祖即位下詔曰。誌公迹拘塵垢神遊冥寂。水火不能焦濡。蛇虎不能侵懼。語其佛理則聲聞以上。譚其隱淪則遯仙高者。豈以俗士常情空相拘制。何其鄙陋一至於此。自今勿得復禁。帝一日問師曰。弟子煩惑何以治之。師曰。十二。識者以為十二因緣治惑藥也。又問十二之旨。師曰。旨在書字時節刻漏中。識者以為書之在十二時中。又問。弟子何時得靜心修習。師曰。安樂禁。識者以為修習禁者止也。至安樂時乃止耳。又製大乘贊二十四首盛行於世（餘諸辭句與夫禪宗旨趣冥會。略錄十首及師製十二時頌編于別卷）天監十三年冬將卒。忽告眾僧令移寺金剛神像出置于外。乃密謂人曰。菩薩將去。未及旬日無疾而終。舉體香軟。臨亡然一燭以付後閤舍人吳慶。慶以事聞。帝歎曰。大師不復留矣。燭者將以後事囑我乎。因厚禮葬于鍾山獨龍阜。仍立開善精舍。勅陸倕製銘於冢內。王筠勒碑於寺門。處處傳其遺像焉。初師顯迹之始年可五六十許。及終亦不老。人莫測其年。有徐捷道者。年九十三。自言是誌外舅弟小誌四年。計師亡時蓋年九十七矣。勅諡妙覺大師。

Chan Master Baozhi was a native of Jincheng. His surname was Zhu. Leaving home young, he stayed at Daolin Temple to practice Chan meditation. At the beginning of the Taishe era of the Song dynasty, his dwelling suddenly became unfixed and his eating had no regular hours. His hair was several inches long, and he walked barefoot carrying a monk's staff. Around his head he wore scissors, a ruler, and a bronze mirror, or hung one or two feet of silk cloth. For days he did not eat, yet showed no signs of hunger. From time to time he would sing verses whose words were like prophetic prognostications. Scholars and commoners alike all served him. In the seventh year of the Yongming era of the Qi dynasty, Emperor Wu deemed that the master was deluding the multitude, had him arrested, and committed him to the prison in Jiankang. At dawn, people saw him entering the marketplace, but when inspecting the prison, he was there as before. The magistrate of Jiankang reported the matter, and the Emperor invited him to the rear hall of the palace. While the master was in Hualin Garden, one day he suddenly wore three cloth caps layered together, none knowing where he obtained them. Soon, King of Yuzhang and Crown Prince Wenhui died one after another; Emperor Wu soon passed away, and the Qi dynasty entered its decline. Because of this, the master was forbidden to come and go. When Emperor Gaozu of the Liang dynasty ascended the throne, he issued an edict saying: "Master Zhi's traces are confined in dust and defilement, yet his spirit roams in the profound and quiescent. Water and fire cannot burn or wet him; snakes and tigers cannot attack or terrify him. Speaking of his Buddhist principle, he is above the Śrāvakas; talking of his reclusion, he is higher than the escaping immortals. How could one use the ordinary sentiment of commoners to futilely restrain him? How did it become as vulgar as this? From now on, let him no longer be restricted." One day the Emperor asked the master: "How should this disciple cure his afflictions and delusions?" The master said: "Twelve." Those who understood took it that the twelve causal conditions are the medicine for curing delusions. He also asked about the purport of twelve. The master said: "The purport lies in the characters of the hours of the water clock." Those who understood took it that it was written in the twelve double-hours. He further asked: "When may this disciple attain a quiet mind to cultivate practice?" The master said: "Peaceful happiness, restraint." Those who understood took it that restraint in cultivation means stopping; only when one reaches peaceful happiness does one stop. He also composed twenty-four verses of "Praise of the Mahāyāna," which circulated widely in the world. (Other words and verses which secretly harmonized with the purport of the Chan school, ten verses and the "Hymns on the Twelve Hours" composed by the master, are briefly recorded and compiled in another fascicle.) In the winter of the thirteenth year of the Tianjian era, on the verge of passing away, he suddenly told the monks to move the temple's Vajra spirit statue outside, and secretly said to someone: "The Bodhisattva is about to depart." Within ten days, he died without illness, his whole body fragrant and soft. Prior to his demise, he lit a candle and gave it to Wu Qing, the Gentleman of the Rear Chamber. Qing reported the matter, and the Emperor sighed, saying: "The Great Master will not stay any longer! Does the candle mean he entrusts the future affairs to me?" Thereupon he buried him with lavish rites on Dulong Mound at Mount Zhong, and also established Kaishan Hermitage. He ordered Lu Chui to compose an epitaph inside the tomb, and Wang Yun to carve a stele at the temple gate. His remaining likeness was transmitted everywhere. When the master first revealed his traces, his age seemed around fifty or sixty, and at his end he was not aged either; no one could fathom his years. There was a certain Xu Jiedao, aged ninety-three, who said he was Zhi's maternal younger cousin, four years younger than Zhi. Calculating thus, when the master died, he was probably ninety-seven. He was imperially bestowed the posthumous title of Great Master Miaojue.