景德傳燈錄 7.12

7.12

毘陵芙蓉山太毓禪師者。金陵人也。姓范氏。年十二禮牛頭山第六世忠禪師落髮。二十三於京兆安國寺受具。後遇大寂密傳祖意。唐元和十三年止毘陵義興芙蓉山。一日因行食與龐居士。居士接食次。師云。生心受施淨名早訶。去此一機居士還甘否。居士云。當時善現豈不作家。師云。非關他事。居士云。食到口邊被他奪却。師乃下食。居士云。不消一句。居士又問師。馬大師著實為人處。還分付吾師否。師云。某甲尚未見他。作麼知他著實處。居士云。只此見知也無討處。師云。居士也不得一向言說。居士云。一向言說師又失宗。若作兩向三向。師還開得口否。師云。直似開口不得可謂實也。居士撫掌而出。寶曆中歸齊雲入滅。壽八十。臘五十八。大和二年追諡大寶禪師楞伽之塔。

Chan Master Taiyu of Mount Furong in Piling was a native of Jinling. His family name was Fan. At the age of twelve, he paid respects to Chan Master Zhong, the sixth generation of Mount Niutou, and had his head shaved. At twenty-three, he received full ordination at Anguo Monastery in the capital. Later, he met Daji and was secretly transmitted the ancestral intention. In the thirteenth year of the Yuanhe era of the Tang, he stayed at Mount Furong in Yixing, Piling. One day, while serving food to Upāsaka Pang, as the upāsaka was receiving the food, the Master said, "Giving rise to mind when receiving alms was long ago rebuked by Jingming. Casting aside this single mechanism, does the upāsaka still accept it?" The upāsaka said, "Back then, was Subhūti not an expert?" The Master said, "That has nothing to do with another's business." The upāsaka said, "The food reached my lips, only to be snatched away by someone else!" The Master then set down the food. The upāsaka said, "Not worth a single phrase." The upāsaka further asked the Master, "Where Master Ma truly worked to help people—did he pass that on to my master?" The Master said, "I have not yet seen him; how could I know where he truly worked?" The upāsaka said, "Just this seeing and knowing also cannot be found." The Master said, "The upāsaka should not speak only from one side." The upāsaka said, "If I speak only from one side, the Master again loses the principle; if I speak from two sides or three sides, can the Master still open his mouth?" The Master said, "Directly being unable to open one's mouth—this may indeed be called real." The upāsaka clapped his hands and went out. During the Baoli era, he returned to Qiyun and entered extinction. His age was eighty; his monastic age was fifty-eight. In the second year of the Dahe era, he was posthumously granted the title Chan Master Dabao ("Great Treasure") and his stūpa was named Lengqie ("Laṅkā").