景德傳燈錄 9.44

9.44

有大禪師號希運。住洪州高安縣黃蘗山鷲峯下。乃曹溪六祖之嫡孫。百丈之子西堂之姪。獨佩最上乘。離文字之印。唯傳一心更無別法。心體亦空萬緣俱寂。如大日輪升於虛空中照耀。靜無纖埃。證之者無新舊無淺深。說之者不立義解。不立宗主。不開戶牖。直下便是。動念則乖。然後為本佛。故其言簡其理直其道峻其行孤。四方學徒望山而趨。覩相而悟。往來海眾常千餘人。予會昌二年廉于鍾陵。自山迎至州憩龍興寺。旦夕問道。大中二年廉于宛陵。復禮迎至所部寓開元寺。旦夕受法。退而紀之十得一二。佩為心印不敢發揚。今恐入神精義不聞於未來。遂出之授門下。僧太舟法建歸舊山之廣唐寺。請長老法眾問與往日常所親聞同異何如也。時大唐大中十一年十月八日謹記（自後每段各紀歲月。今刪繁爾）。

There was a great Chan master styled Xiyun, residing at Mount Huangbo beneath Vulture Peak in Gao'an County, Hongzhou. He was a direct descendant of the Sixth Patriarch of Caoxi, a spiritual son of Baizhang, and a nephew of Xitang. He solely bore the seal of the Supreme Vehicle that is free from words and letters, transmitting only the One Mind and no other dharma besides. The essence of the mind is also empty, and myriad conditions are entirely quiescent, like the great orb of the sun rising into the empty sky to shine, tranquil without a speck of dust. Those who realize it have neither new nor old, neither shallow nor deep. Those who expound it set up neither doctrinal interpretations nor sectarian leaders, nor do they open doors or windows. Directly here and now it is just it; to stir a thought is to deviate. Only thereafter is it the original Buddha. Therefore, his words were concise, his principle direct, his path lofty, and his conduct solitary. Students from the four quarters hastened toward his mountain from afar, and upon beholding his countenance became enlightened. The sea of people coming and going constantly numbered more than a thousand. In the second year of Huichang, when I served as surveillance commissioner in Zhongling, I invited him from the mountain to the prefecture to rest at Longxing Temple, where morning and evening I inquired into the Way. In the second year of Dazhong, when I served as surveillance commissioner in Wanling, I again respectfully invited him to my jurisdiction to lodge at Kaiyuan Temple, where morning and evening I received the Dharma. Retiring, I recorded it, obtaining merely one or two parts in ten, wearing it as a mind seal and not daring to propagate it. Now, fearing that these profound and exquisite meanings might not be heard in the future, I have brought them forth and given them to his disciples, the monks Taizhou and Fajian, who returned to Guangtang Temple on the former mountain to request the elders and the Dharma assembly to examine whether they accord with or differ from what they themselves used to hear in the past. Respectfully recorded on the eighth day of the tenth month in the eleventh year of Dazhong of the Great Tang. (From this point on, each section originally recorded the year and month; these are now omitted to avoid redundancy.)