景德傳燈錄 3.30

3.30

大師後見此偈云。此是誰作亦未見性。眾聞師語遂不之顧。逮夜乃潛令人自碓坊召能行者入室。告曰。諸佛出世為一大事故。隨機小大而引導之。遂有十地三乘頓漸等旨。以為教門。然以無上微妙祕密圓明真實正法眼藏。付于上首大迦葉尊者。展轉傳授二十八世。至達磨屆于此土。得可大師。承襲以至于吾。今以法寶及所傳袈裟用付於汝。善自保護無令斷絕。聽吾偈曰。

Later the Great Master saw this verse and said, "Who wrote this? This person has not seen the nature either." Hearing the Master's words, the assembly paid no more attention to it. When night fell, he secretly sent someone to summon the postulant Huineng from the millhouse into his room, and told him: "The Buddhas appear in the world for the sake of one great matter, and guide beings according to their capacities, whether small or great. Thus there are teachings such as the ten stages, the three vehicles, and the sudden and gradual doctrines, serving as gates of instruction. Yet the unsurpassed, wondrous, subtle, secret, fully bright, and real treasury of the correct Dharma eye was entrusted to the foremost, the Venerable Mahākāśyapa, and handed down through twenty-eight generations until Bodhidharma arrived in this land and obtained Great Master Ke, continuing in succession down to me. Now I transmit to you the Dharma treasure and the robe that has been handed down. Protect them well and do not allow them to be cut off. Listen to my verse: