景德傳燈錄 9.30

9.30

福州龜山智真禪師者揚州人也。姓柳氏。受業於本州華林寺。唐元和元年潤州丹徒天香寺受戒。不習經論。唯慕禪那初謁惲禪師。惲問曰。何所而至。真曰。至無所至來無所來。惲雖默然真亦自悟。尋抵婺州五洩山會正原禪伯。長慶二年同遊建陽。受郡人葉玢請居東禪。至開成元年往福州。長谿邑人陳亮黃瑜請於龜山開剏。一日示眾曰。動容眴目無出當人一念淨心本來是佛。乃說偈曰。

Chan Master Zhizhen of Mount Guishan in Fuzhou was a native of Yangzhou surnamed Liu. He pursued his studies at Hualin Monastery in his home prefecture. In the first year of Yuanhe of the Tang, he received the precepts at Tianxiang Monastery in Dantu, Runzhou. He did not study the sūtras and treatises, but only admired dhyāna. At first he visited Master Huaiyun. Yun asked, 'Where have you arrived from?' Zhen said, 'Arriving, there is nowhere to arrive; coming, there is nowhere to come from.' Although Yun remained silent, Zhen also had his own realization. Soon he reached Mount Wuxie in Wuzhou and met the venerable Chan elder Zhengyuan. In the second year of Changqing, they traveled together to Jianyang, where, at the invitation of the prefectural resident Ye Bin, he resided at Dongchan. In the first year of Kaicheng, he went to Fuzhou, where the residents of Changxi, Chen Liang and Huang Yu, invited him to establish a monastery on Mount Guishan. One day he addressed the assembly, 'Moving the countenance and blinking the eyes never departs from a person's single thought of pure mind, which is fundamentally Buddha.' He then spoke a verse: