景德傳燈錄 4.36

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天台山佛窟巖惟則禪師者京兆人也。姓長孫氏。初謁牛頭忠禪師大悟玄旨。後隱於天台瀑布之西巖。唐元和中法席漸盛。始自目其巖為佛窟焉。一日示眾云。天地無物也。我無物也。然未甞無物。斯則聖人如影百年如夢。孰為生死哉。至人以是獨照。能為萬物之主。吾知之矣。汝等知之乎。有僧問。如何是那羅延箭。師云。中的也。忽一日告門人曰。汝當自勉。吾何言哉。後二日夜安坐示滅。壽八十。臘五十有八。

Chan Master Weize of Buddha Cave Rock on Mount Tiantai was a native of the capital district (Jingzhao), surnamed Zhangsun. Initially he visited Chan Master Zhong of Niutou and had a great awakening to the profound meaning. Later he lived in seclusion at the West Rock of the Tiantai Waterfall. During the Yuanhe era of the Tang, his Dharma assembly gradually flourished, and he began to name the rock Buddha Cave. One day he instructed the assembly, saying, "Heaven and earth have no things; I have no things. Yet they have never been without things. This being so, the sage is like a shadow, and a hundred years are like a dream: what is birth and death? The perfected person, by means of this solitary illumination, can be the master of the myriad things. I know this; do you know it?" A monk asked, "What is the arrow of Nārāyaṇa?" The Master said, "It has hit the mark." Suddenly one day he told his disciples, "You should exert yourselves; what need have I to speak?" Two nights later, he sat peacefully and manifested extinction. His age was eighty, and his monastic age was fifty-eight.