傳法正宗記 2.31

2.31

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:"