景德傳燈錄 3.19

3.19

相州隆化寺慧滿禪師。滎陽人也。姓張氏。始於本寺遇僧那禪師開示。志存儉約唯蓄二鍼。冬則乞補夏乃捨之。自言一生心無怯怖身無蚤虱睡而不夢。常行乞食住無再宿。所至伽藍則破柴製履。貞觀十六年於洛陽會善寺側。宿古墓中遇大雪。旦入寺見曇曠法師。曠怪所從來。師曰。法有來耶。曠遣尋來處。四邊雪積五尺許。曠曰。不可測也。尋聞有括錄事。諸僧逃隱。師持鉢周行聚落無所滯礙。隨得隨散索爾虛閑。有請宿齋者。師曰。天下無僧方受斯請也。又嘗示人曰。諸佛說心令知心。相是虛妄。今乃重加心相。深違佛意。又增論議殊乖大理。故常齎楞伽經四卷。以為心要。如說而行。蓋遵歷世之遺付也。後於陶冶中無疾坐化。壽七十許。

Zen Master Huiman of Longhua Monastery in Xiangzhou was a man of Xingyang. His surname was Zhang. He first met Zen Master Sengna at this monastery and received his instruction. He was set upon frugality, keeping only two needles; in winter he begged for mending, and in summer he gave them away. He said of himself that throughout his life, his mind had no fear or terror, his body had no fleas or lice, and he slept without dreaming. He constantly practiced begging for food, and he never stayed in a place for a second night. Wherever he arrived at a monastery, he would chop firewood and make sandals. In the sixteenth year of the Zhenguan era, near Huishan Monastery in Luoyang, he stayed overnight in an ancient tomb and encountered heavy snow. In the morning he entered the monastery and met Dharma Master Tankuang. Kuang marveled at where he came from. The Master said, "Do phenomena have a coming?" Kuang sent someone to look for the place he had come from, and the snow piled up around him was about five feet deep. Kuang said, "He cannot be fathomed." Soon after, there was word of a census register inspection, and the monks fled into hiding. The Master held his bowl and walked around the settlements without any hindrance; whatever he received he immediately dispersed, remaining detached, empty, and leisurely. When someone invited him to stay for a vegetarian meal, the Master said, "Only when there are no monks in the world will I accept this invitation." Furthermore, he once instructed people, saying, "All the Buddhas spoke of the mind to make one know that the mind's characteristics are false and empty. Now people further add characteristics to the mind, which deeply opposes the Buddhas' intention. Moreover, increasing theoretical arguments departs far from the great principle." Therefore, he constantly carried the four fascicles of the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra as the essentials of the mind and acted in accordance with what it said, which was in deference to the bequeathal handed down through the generations. Later, he sat and passed away without illness in a pottery workshop, at the age of about seventy.