景德傳燈錄 9.15

9.15

福州古靈神贊禪師。本州大中寺受業後。行脚遇百丈開悟。却迴本寺。受業師問曰。汝離吾在外得何事業。曰並無事業。遂遣執役。一日因澡身。命師去垢。師乃拊背曰。好所佛殿而佛不聖。其師。迴首視之師曰。佛雖不聖且能放光。其師又一日在窓下看經。蜂子投窓紙求出。師覩之曰。世界如許廣闊不肯出。鑽他故紙驢年去得。其師置經問曰。汝行脚遇何人。吾前後見汝發言異常。師曰。某甲蒙百丈和尚指箇歇處。今欲報慈德耳。其師於是告眾致齋。請師說法。師登座舉唱百丈門風。乃曰。靈光獨耀逈脫根塵。體露真常不拘文字。心性無染本自圓成。但離妄緣即如如佛。其師於言下感悟曰。何期垂老得聞極則事。師後住古靈聚徒數載。臨遷化剃沐聲鍾。告眾曰。汝等諸人還識無聲三昧否。眾曰。不識。師曰。汝等靜聽莫別思惟眾皆側聆。師儼然順寂。塔存本山焉。

Chan Master Shenzan of Guling in Fuzhou: After undergoing training at Dazhong Monastery in his home prefecture, he went on pilgrimage, encountered Baizhang, and attained awakening. He then returned to his original monastery. His tonsure master asked him, "Since you left me to go abroad, what enterprise have you accomplished?" He replied, "No enterprise at all." Thereupon he was dispatched to perform menial labor. One day, as the tonsure master was bathing, he ordered the master to scrub the grime from his back. The master patted his back and said, "A fine Buddha hall, but the Buddha is not holy!" The master turned his head and looked at him. The master said, "Although the Buddha is not holy, he can nevertheless emit light." Another day, his master was reading a sūtra under a window. A bee bumped against the window paper trying to get out. The master, seeing this, said, "The world is so vast, yet it is unwilling to go out; drilling into old paper, when in the year of the donkey will it ever get out?" His master put down the sūtra and asked, "Whom did you meet on your pilgrimage? Time and again I have noticed your speech is extraordinary." The master said, "I received the direction of Upādhyāya Baizhang to a resting place; now I merely wish to repay your compassionate virtue." Thereupon his master informed the assembly, hosted a feast, and invited the master to preach the Dharma. The master mounted the seat, extolled Baizhang's house style, and said: "The numinous light shines alone, utterly transcending senses and dust. Its substance reveals the true and constant, unconfined by words and letters. The mind-nature is undefiled, originally complete in itself. Merely leave behind false conditions, and you are the Tathātā Buddha." His master was awakened upon these words and said, "Who could have expected that in my declining years I would hear of the ultimate matter?" Later, the master resided at Guling, gathering disciples for several years. When he was about to pass away, he shaved, bathed, and had the bell struck. He told the assembly, "Do you all recognize the soundless samādhi?" The assembly said, "We do not recognize it." The master said, "Listen quietly, and do not think of anything else." The assembly all leaned forward to listen. The master solemnly passed away in peace. His stūpa remains at that mountain.