[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [續傳燈錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077) › 12.83 # 續傳燈錄 12.83 續傳燈錄 12.83 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.12.83) 清獻公趙抃居士字悅道。年四十餘擯去聲色繫心宗教。會佛慧來居衢之南禪。公日親之。慧未甞容措一詞。後典青州。政事之餘多宴坐。忽大雷震驚。即契悟作偈曰。默坐公堂虛隱几。心源不動湛如水。一聲霹靂頂門開。喚起從前自家底慧聞笑曰。趙悅道撞彩耳。富鄭公初於宗門未有所趣。公勉之書曰。伏惟執事。富貴如是之極。道德如是之盛。福壽康寧如是之備。退休閑逸如是之高。其所未甚留意者。如來一大事因緣而已。能專誠求所證悟。則他日為門下賀也。公年七十有二。以太子少保致仕而歸。親舊里民遇之如故作高齋以自適。題偈是意曰。腰佩黃金已退藏。箇中消息也尋常。世人欲識高齋老。秖是柯村趙四郎。復曰。切忌錯認。臨薨遺佛慧書曰。非師平昔警誨。至此必不得力矣。慧悼以偈曰。仕也邦為瑞。歸歟世作程。人間金粟去。天上玉樓成。慧劍無纖缺。氷壺徹底清。春風瀫水路。孤月照雲明。 > Duke Qingxian, the upāsaka Zhao Bian, whose courtesy name was Yuedao. When he was over forty years of age, he cast aside sounds and sights and set his mind upon the ancestral school. It happened that Fohui came to reside at Nanchang in Quzhou. The duke became close to him day by day, but Hui never allowed him to utter a single word. Later he was in charge of Qingzhou. In the leisure left from government affairs, he often sat in peaceful meditation. Suddenly a great thunderclap startled him, and he instantly tallied with awakening. He composed a gāthā, saying: / 'Sitting silently in the official hall, resting emptily against the desk, / The mind-source is unmoving, clear and still like water. / A single peal of thunder splits the crown of the head, / Awakening that which has belonged to one's own home all along!' / When Hui heard it, he smiled and said, "Zhao Yuedao has simply hit the jackpot." Earlier, Duke Zheng of Fu had not taken any interest in the ancestral gate. The duke encouraged him in a letter, saying: "I respectfully submit: Your official standing is at such an extreme of wealth and nobility; your virtue and character are so flourishing; your good fortune, long life, health, and peace are so complete; your retirement in leisure is so exalted. That which has not yet received much of your mindful attention is only the one great matter nidāna of the Tathāgata. If you can single-mindedly and sincerely seek what is to be verified and awakened to, then on a future day I will congratulate you." When the duke reached seventy-two years of age, he retired with the title of Junior Preceptor to the Crown Prince and returned home. Relatives and old village neighbors met him as of old. He built a high studio to please himself, and inscribed a gāthā on its intent, saying: / 'With gold worn at the waist, I have already retired into seclusion; / The news within this is also ordinary. / If people of the world wish to know the old man of the high studio: / He is merely the fourth son of the Zhao family from Ke Village.' / He added, "By all means avoid mistaking it!" Approaching death, he left a letter for Fohui, saying, "Were it not for the Master's usual warnings and instructions, when reaching this point I would surely have had no strength." Hui mourned him with a gāthā, saying: / 'In official service, you were an auspicious omen for the state; / In retirement, you served as a standard for the world. / In the mortal realm, the Golden Grain has departed; / In the heavens, the Jade Pavilion is completed. / The sword of wisdom is without the slightest flaw; / The ice jar is completely pure to the bottom. / On the road along the Gu River in the spring breeze, / The solitary moon shines bright among the clouds.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.12.82) - [Next: 12.84](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.12.84) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077~en-mt.12.83) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.4.196) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.12.83](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.12.83) · Pramāṇa