續傳燈錄 11.33

11.33

邢州開元法明上座。依報本未久深得法忍。後歸里事落魄。多嗜酒呼盧。每大醉。唱柳詞數闋。日以為常。鄉民侮之。召齋則拒召飲則從。如是者十餘年。咸指曰醉和尚。一日謂寺眾曰。吾明旦當行。汝等無他往。眾竊笑之。翌晨攝衣就座大呼曰。吾去矣。聽吾一偈。眾聞奔視。師乃曰。平生醉裏顛蹶。醉裏却有分別。今宵酒醒何處。楊柳岸。曉風殘月。言訖寂然。撼之已委蛻矣。

Senior Monk Faming of Kaiyuan in Xingzhou. He relied on Baoben for a short time and deeply attained the Dharma forbearance. Later he returned to his home village, lived a dissolute life, became addicted to drinking wine, and gambled with dice. Whenever he was dead drunk, he would sing several songs of Liu [Yong], making this his daily habit. The villagers insulted him; if invited to a vegetarian feast he refused, but if invited to drink he followed along. He lived like this for more than ten years, and everyone pointed at him and called him the 'Drunken Upādhyāya.' One day he said to the monastery assembly, "Tomorrow morning I must depart. Do not go anywhere else." The assembly secretly laughed at him. The next morning, he gathered his robes, took his seat, and shouted loudly, "I am going! Listen to a verse of mine." Hearing this, the assembly rushed to look. The Master then said, "Throughout my life I stumbled in drunkenness, / yet in drunkenness I still possessed discernment. / Where will I sober up from wine tonight? / Upon the willow bank, in the morning breeze and fading moon." Having finished speaking, he fell silent. When they shook him, he had already sloughed off the mortal coil.