續傳燈錄 28.26

28.26

令人本明號明室。自機契圓悟遍參明宿皆蒙印可。紹興庚申二月望。親書三偈寄呈草堂清。微露謝世之意。至旬末別親里而終。草堂跋其偈後為刊行。大慧亦嘗垂語發揚。偈曰。不識煩惱是菩提。若隨煩惱是愚癡。起滅之時須要會。鷂過新羅人不知。不識煩惱是菩提。淨花生淤泥。人來問我若何為。喫粥喫飯了洗鉢盂。莫管他莫管他。終日癡憨弄海沙。要識本來真面目。便是祖師一木叉。道不得底叉下死。道得底也叉下死。畢竟如何。不許夜行投明須到。

Lady Benming, styled Mingshi, after having an accord with Yuanwu, visited eminent elders everywhere, and all bestowed their seals of approval upon her. On the full moon of the second month of the gengshen year of the Shaoxing era, she personally wrote three gāthās and sent them to Caotang Qing, faintly intimating her intention of leaving the world. Toward the end of the ten-day period, she took leave of her kin and passed away. Caotang wrote an afterword to her gāthās and published them; Dahui had also once uttered words to extol her. The gāthās said: 'Not knowing that affliction is bodhi; / If one follows affliction, that is foolishness. / At the moment of arising and ceasing, one must understand: / A sparrowhawk passes Silla without anyone knowing. / Not knowing that affliction is bodhi; / The pure flower grows from muddy silt. / If someone comes to ask me what to do: / Eating gruel, eating rice, and finishing, wash the bowl. / Pay no heed to it, pay no heed to it; / Playing with ocean sand all day long in foolish bliss. / If you wish to know your original true face: / It is just the Patriarch's single wooden fork. / Those who cannot speak die beneath the fork; / Those who can speak also die beneath the fork. / In the end, how is it? / Walking by night is not permitted; you must arrive when day breaks.'