續傳燈錄 26.21

26.21

眉州中巖慧目蘊能禪師。本郡呂氏子。年二十二於村落一富室為校書。偶遊山寺見禪冊閱之似有得。即裂冠圓具一鉢遊方。首參寶勝澄甫禪師。所趣頗異。至荊湖謁永安喜真如哲德山繪。造詣益高。迨抵大溈。溈問。上座桑梓何處。師曰。西川。曰我聞西川有普賢菩薩示現是否。師曰。今日得瞻慈相。曰白象何在。師曰。牙爪已具。曰還會轉身麼。師提坐具繞禪床一匝。溈曰。不是。這箇道理。師趨出。一日溈為眾入室。問僧。黃巢過後還有人收得劍麼。僧竪起拳。溈曰。菜刀子。僧曰。爭奈受用不盡。溈喝出。次問師。黃巢過後還有人收得劍麼。師亦竪起拳。溈曰。也秖是菜刀子。師曰。殺得人即休。遂近前欄胸築之。溈曰。三十年弄馬騎。今日被驢子撲。後還蜀。庵於舊址。應四眾之請出住報恩。上堂。龍濟道。萬法是心光。諸緣唯性曉。本無迷悟人。秖要今日了。師曰。既無迷悟了箇甚麼。咄。上堂舉。雪峯一日普請般柴。中路見一僧遂擲下一段柴曰。一大藏教秖說這箇。後來真如哲道。一大藏教不說這箇。據此二尊宿說話是同是別。山僧則不然。竪起拂子曰。提起則如是我聞。放下則信受奉行。室中問崇真氈頭。如何是爾空劫已前父母。真領悟曰。和尚且低聲。遂獻投機頌曰。萬年倉裏曾飢饉。大海中住儘長渴。當初尋時尋不見。如今避時避不得。師為印可。一日與黃提刑弈棋次。黃問。數局之中無一局同。千著萬著則故是。如何是那一著。師提起棋子示之。黃佇思。師曰。不見道。從前十九路迷殺幾多人。師住持三十餘年。凡說法不許錄其語。臨終書偈趺坐而化。闍維時暴風忽起煙所至處皆雨設利。道俗斸其地皆得之。心舌不壞。塔于本山。

Chan Master Huimu Yunneng of Zhongyan in Meizhou was a son of the Lü family of this commandery. At age twenty-two, he was an editor for a wealthy family in a village. While casually touring a mountain monastery, he saw Chan texts, read them, and seemed to gain an understanding. He immediately tore off his cap, took the full precepts, and set out wandering with a single bowl. He first studied under Chan Master Chengpu of Baosheng; his inclinations were quite exceptional. Reaching the Jinghu region, he called upon Xi of Yong'an, Zhe of Zhenru, and Hui of Deshan; his attainment grew ever higher. When he reached Dagui, Gui asked, "Where is the Elder's native place?" The Master said, "Western Chuan." [Gui] said, "I have heard that Samantabhadra Bodhisattva manifests in Western Chuan; is this so?" The Master said, "Today I have had the fortune to behold his compassionate countenance." [Gui] said, "Where is the white elephant?" The Master said, "Fangs and claws are already complete." [Gui] said, "Can you still turn your body?" The Master took up his sitting mat and walked once around the Chan bed. Gui said, "It is not this principle." The Master hurried out. One day, Gui held an interview in the room for the assembly and asked a monk, "After Huang Chao passed, did anyone pick up the sword?" The monk raised his fist. Gui said, "A vegetable knife." The monk said, "What can be done about using it endlessly?" Gui shouted him out. Next he asked the Master, "After Huang Chao passed, did anyone pick up the sword?" The Master also raised his fist. Gui said, "It is also just a vegetable knife." The Master said, "If it can kill people, that is enough!" He then approached and struck him in the chest. Gui said, "For thirty years I have played at riding horses; today I have been thrown by a donkey!" Later he returned to Shu and built a hermitage at an old site. Answering the invitation of the fourfold assembly, he came forth to reside at Bao'en. Ascending the hall: "Longji said: 'The ten thousand dharmas are the light of mind; the various conditions are illuminated only by nature. Originally there is no one confused or awakened; it only requires being settled today.'" The Master said, "Since there is neither confusion nor awakening, what is there to settle? Bah!" Ascending the hall, he cited: "One day, when Xuefeng called a general labor to carry firewood, he met a monk on the road, dropped a piece of firewood, and said, 'The entire great canon of teachings only speaks of this.' Later, Zhenru Zhe said, 'The entire great canon of teachings does not speak of this.' Judging by what these two venerable elders said, are they the same or different? This mountain monk is not so." Raising his whisk, he said, "Lifting it up, it is 'Thus have I heard'; putting it down, it is 'faithfully accepting and practicing.'" In the abbot's room, he asked Zhan Tou of Chongzhen, "What were your parents before the empty kalpa?" Zhen understood and said, "Upādhyāya, please lower your voice." He then presented a verse matching the occasion, saying: / "Inside the ten-thousand-year granary, I was once starved; / living in the midst of the great ocean, I was continually thirsty. / When I sought it originally, I could not find it; / now when I try to avoid it, I cannot avoid it." / The Master gave him the seal of approval. One day, while playing weiqi with Judicial Intendant Huang, Huang asked, "Among several games, not a single game is the same. A thousand moves and ten thousand moves are indeed so; what is that one move?" The Master picked up a game piece and showed it to him. Huang hesitated in thought. The Master said, "Have you not heard it said: / 'Heretofore, the nineteen lines have utterly bewildered how many people?'" / The Master was abbot for over thirty years; whenever he preached the Dharma, he did not permit his words to be recorded. Nearing the end, he wrote a verse, sat cross-legged, and passed away. At the cremation, a violent wind suddenly arose, and wherever the smoke reached, it rained relics (śarīra). Monastics and laypeople dug the earth and all obtained them. His heart and tongue were not decayed. A stūpa was built on his home mountain.