傳法正宗記 2.31

2.31

後之四日。波旬大領天眾復來作禮。讚歎而去。然尊者化導。而後聖因其所證者最多。初每度一人則以一籌置於石室。其室縱十八肘廣十二肘。而籌盈之。昔如來嘗記。尊者當為傳法四世之祖。謂其雖無相好而所化度如如來之日無異。至是而大聖之言驗矣。最後乃有長者子。曰香眾。從尊者固求出家。尊者問之曰。汝身出家。心出家耶。香眾曰。我來出家。非為身心。曰不為身心。復誰出家。曰夫出家者無我我故。無我我故即心不生滅。心不生滅即是常道。諸佛亦常。心無形相其體亦然。尊者曰。汝當大悟。心自通達宜依佛法僧紹隆聖種。即為披剃。受具足戒。仍告之曰。汝父嘗夢金日而生。汝以是可名提多迦。尋謂之曰。如來以大法眼藏次第傳受以至於今。今復付汝。聽吾偈曰。

Four days later, Pāpīyān led a great host of devas, came again to pay homage, offered praises, and departed. Yet of all the Venerable One's guidance and conversion, the latter-day sages who attained realization through him were the most numerous. Originally, each time he liberated a person, he placed a tally in a stone chamber. That chamber was eighteen cubits long and twelve cubits wide, and the tallies filled it completely. In the past, the Tathāgata had prophesied that the Venerable One would be the patriarch of the fourth generation of the Dharma transmission, stating that although he lacked the primary marks and secondary signs, the people he would transform and liberate would be no different from those in the days of the Tathāgata. By this time, the Great Sage's words had been verified. At the very end, there was the son of an elder named Gandhahastin, who persistently begged the Venerable One to leave the household life. The Venerable One asked him, saying, "Do you leave the household life in body, or do you leave the household life in mind?" Gandhahastin said, "I have come to leave the household life neither for the sake of body nor mind." [The Venerable One] said, "If not for body or mind, who then leaves the household life?" [He] replied, "He who leaves the household life is free of self and what belongs to self. Because there is no self and no what belongs to self, the mind is without arising and ceasing. When the mind is without arising and ceasing, that is the constant Way. The Buddhas are also constant; the mind has no physical form, and its substance is likewise so." The Venerable One said, "You will attain great awakening; your mind will naturally comprehend and penetrate. You ought to rely on the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha to carry on and glorify the noble lineage." Thereupon he shaved his head and administered the full precepts to him, further telling him, "Your father once dreamed of a golden sun when you were born; for this reason you may be named Dhītika." Soon afterwards, he said to him, "The Tathāgata's great treasury of the eye of the true Dharma has been transmitted and received in succession down to the present. Now I entrust it to you once more. Listen to my verse:"