景德傳燈錄 4.27

4.27

潤州鶴林玄素禪師者。潤州延陵人也。姓馬氏。唐如意年中受業於江寧長壽寺。晚參智威禪師遂悟真宗。後居京口鶴林寺。甞一日有屠者禮謁。願就所居辨供。師欣然而往。眾皆訝之。師曰。佛性平等賢愚一致。但可度者吾即度之。復何差別之有。或有僧問。如何是西來意。師曰。會即不會。疑即不疑。師又曰。不會不疑底。不疑不會底。又有僧扣門。師問。是什麼人曰是僧。師曰。非但是僧。佛來亦不著。曰佛來為什麼不著。師曰。無汝止泊處。天寶十一年十一月十一日。中夜無疾而滅。壽八十五。建塔於黃鶴山。勅諡大津禪師大和寶航之塔。

Chan Master Xuansu of Helin in Runzhou was a native of Yanling in Runzhou with the surname Ma. During the Ruoyi era of the Tang, he received his studies at Changshou Monastery in Jiangning. Later in life, he studied under Chan Master Zhiwei and awakened to the true school. Afterward, he resided at Helin Monastery in Jingkou. Once, a butcher came to pay homage and wished to prepare offerings at his own home. The master gladly went, and the assembly was astonished. The master said, “The Buddha-nature is equal; the worthy and the foolish are one. If someone can be saved, I save them; what difference is there?” A monk asked, “What is the meaning of the coming from the West?” The master said, “If you understand, then you do not understand; if you doubt, then you do not doubt.” The master also said, “The one who neither understands nor doubts; the one who neither doubts nor understands.” Another monk knocked at the gate, and the master asked, “Who is it?” The monk said, “A monk.” The master said, “Not only a monk—even if a Buddha comes, I do not admit him.” The monk said, “Why would you not admit a Buddha if he came?” The master said, “There is no place for you to lodge.” On the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the eleventh year of the Tianbao era, he passed away in the middle of the night without illness. He lived eighty-five years. A stupa was built on Mount Huanghe, and he was posthumously granted by imperial order the title of Chan Master Dajin and the stupa of Dahe Baohang.