[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) › 35.8 # 續傳燈錄 35.8 續傳燈錄 35.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [35.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2077.35.8) 杭州靈隱妙峯善禪師。吳興劉氏子。其先居彭城後徙吳興。高曾大父父皆登膴仕。師生紈綺中姿性高潔。年十三即辭家祝髮。受業德清齊政院。其師教以經論。一見輒了大意。乃遍參諸大老。時佛照光禪師唱道鄮山。師往參禮。以風幡語直箭鋒機蒙印可。贈以偈曰。今日與君通一線。斬釘截鐵起吾宗。自是辨慧融釋然。不以此自足。遊衡湘還入康廬。卓錫妙高峯下。面壁坐十年。一時學者尊稱之曰妙峯禪師。分座於雁山能仁。出世於慧因洪福萬年諸剎。退居皐亭劉寺者又十餘年。大略如在妙峰時。其徒推迫不已。後領明之瑞岩蘇之萬壽常之華藏。晚至靈隱亦非所樂。靈隱密邇行闕輪蹄湊集。師掩戶若不聞。一無所將迎。公卿貴人或見之寒溫而已。會天童虛席。時鄭清之秉鈞軸。獨念非師莫宜居。因勉師行。師答曰。老僧年踰耄矣。尚夜行不休乎。辭弗就。鄭公益高之。師上堂云。應物現形如水中月。信手拈來一時漏泄。以拂子擊禪床左邊云。者裏是鑊湯爐炭。擊右邊云。者裏是劍樹刀山。前面是觀音勢至。後面是文殊普賢。中間一著還知落處麼。又擊云。毘婆尸佛早留心。直至如今不得妙。又示眾云。久參高士眼空四海鼻孔遼天。見也見得親。說也說得親。行也行得親。用也用得親。只是未識老僧拄杖子在。何故。將成九仞之山。不進一簣之土。生平善誘其徒。未嘗厲聲色。然一經指授。輒神融意悟心悅誠服。皆充然有得。將示寂澡身趺坐。書偈云。來也如是。去也如是。來去一如。清風萬里。遂逝。實端平二年九月二十八日。壽八十四。臘七十一。火浴獲舍利不可數計。塔于靈隱之西岡。鄭公銘其塔。 > Chan Master Miaofeng Shan of Lingyin in Hangzhou was a son of the Liu family of Wuxing. His ancestors originally lived in Pengcheng and later moved to Wuxing. His great-great-grandfather, great-grandfather, grandfather, and father all attained high official ranks. The Master was born among silken garments, yet his natural disposition was noble and pure. At the age of thirteen, he left his family and shaved his head, undertaking his studies at Qizhengyuan in Deqing. His master taught him the sūtras and treatises, and upon a single glance he thoroughly understood their grand meaning. He then traveled everywhere to visit various eminent elders. At that time, Chan Master Fozhao Guang was expounding the way at Mount Mao. The Master went to pay homage and study with him; through sharp functional encounters directly like an arrow point regarding the dialogue on the wind and banner, he received the seal of approval. \[Fozhao\] presented him with a verse saying: > 'Today I open a line of connection for you; > Cutting through nails and shearing iron, raise up our lineage.' > From then on, his eloquence and wisdom were unobstructed and thoroughly lucid. Yet he was not satisfied with this. He traveled through Heng and Xiang, then returned and entered Mount Lu. He set down his staff below Miaogao Peak and sat wall-gazing for ten years. The students of the time respectfully addressed him as 'Chan Master Miaofeng.' He shared the seat at Nengren on Mount Yandang, and later opened the Dharma hall at various monasteries such as Huiyin, Hongfu, and Wannian. He retired to live at Liu Temple on Gaoting for more than ten years, largely as he had done during his time at Miaofeng. His disciples constantly pressed him \[to teach\], and he subsequently took charge of Ruiyan in Mingzhou, Wanshou in Suzhou, and Huazang in Changzhou. In his later years he came to Lingyin, which was also not what he desired. Lingyin was intimately close to the imperial traveling palace, with wheels and hooves crowding together. The Master shut his doors as if hearing nothing, never welcoming or seeing anyone off. When dukes, ministers, and nobles visited him, it was merely to exchange pleasantries about the weather. It happened that the abbot's seat at Tiantong became vacant. At that time, Zheng Qingzhi held the reins of state and thought that no one but the Master was suitable to reside there, so he urged the Master to go. The Master replied, 'This old monk is over eighty years old. Shall I still walk by night without rest?' He declined and did not accept. Duke Zheng respected him all the more. The Master ascended the hall and said, 'Responding to things, forms manifest like the moon in water; pick it up at hand, and at once it is disclosed.' Striking the left side of the meditation seat with his whisk, he said, 'Here is the cauldron of boiling water and the coals of the brazier.' Striking the right side, he said, 'Here is the forest of swords and the mountain of knives. In front are Avalokiteśvara and Mahāsthāmaprāpta; behind are Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra. Do you still know where the one move in the middle settles?' Striking it again, he said, 'Vipaśyin Buddha paid attention early on, yet even up to the present day he has not attained its wonder.' He also addressed the assembly, saying, 'Eminent scholars of long study have eyes empty of the four seas and nostrils piercing the sky. What they see, they see intimately; what they say, they say intimately; how they act, they act intimately; how they apply it, they apply it intimately. Yet they still do not recognize this old monk's staff. Why is that? About to complete a nine-fathom mountain, one fails to add the final basket of earth.' Throughout his life he was skilled in guiding his disciples, never raising his voice or showing harshness. Yet once he gave direction, their spirits blended and their minds awakened; they were delighted and sincerely convinced, and all were richly rewarded. When he was about to manifest nirvāṇa, he bathed his body, sat cross-legged, and wrote a verse saying: > 'Coming is like this; > Going is also like this. > Coming and going are one suchness; > A pure breeze for ten thousand miles.' > He then passed away. It was indeed the twenty-eighth day of the ninth month in the second year of Duanping (1235). He was eighty-four years of age, with seventy-one years of monastic ordination. From the cremation, countless relics (śarīra) were obtained. A stūpa was erected on the western ridge of Lingyin. 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