景德傳燈錄 27.3

27.3

善慧大士者。婺州義烏縣人也。齊建武四年丁丑五月八日降于雙林鄉傅宣慈家本名翕。梁天監十一年。年十六納劉氏女名妙光。生普建普成二子。二十四與里人稽亭浦漉魚。獲已沈籠水中祝曰。去者適止者留。人或謂之愚。會有天竺僧達磨（時謂嵩頭陀）曰。我與汝毘婆尸佛所發誓。今兜率宮衣鉢見在。何日當還。因命臨水觀其影。見大士圓光寶蓋。大士笑謂之曰。鑪韛之所多鈍鐵。良醫之門足病人。度生為急何思彼樂乎。嵩指松山頂曰。此可棲矣。大士躬耕而居之。乃說一偈曰。

Great Being Shanhui was a native of Yiwu County in Wuzhou. On the eighth day of the fifth month in the dingchou year, the fourth year of the Jianwu era of the Qi dynasty, he descended into the household of Fu Xuanci in Shuanglin Village; his original name was Xi. In the eleventh year of the Tianjian era of the Liang dynasty, at age sixteen, he married a woman of the Liu family named Miaoguang, who bore him two sons, Pujian and Pucheng. At twenty-four, he was fishing at Jiting Shoal with fellow villagers. Having caught fish, he submerged the basket in the water and prayed: "Let those who would go depart, and those who would stay remain." Some thought him foolish. It happened that there was an Indian monk named Bodhidharma (at that time called Ascetic Song) who said: "I made a vow with you in the presence of Vipaśyin Buddha. Now your robe and bowl remain in Tuṣita Palace; on what day will you return?" He then told him to look at his reflection in the water, where the Great Being saw a circular halo and a jeweled canopy. The Great Being smiled and said to him: "In a blacksmith's forge there is much dull iron; at a good physician's gate there are plenty of sick people. Saving sentient beings is urgent; why yearn for the pleasures of that place?" Song pointed to the peak of Mount Song, saying: "This can be your dwelling." The Great Being tilled the land himself and resided there. He then spoke a verse, saying: