鐔津文集 11.22

11.22

慈化都僧正所居之北軒者。在精舍為窮奧。於他牖最虛明。靜可以宴。安可以休。適慈化喜此欲潛子名而揭之。潛子謂慈化曰。了性師人皆有好。而子之好喜近道。其殆庶幾乎。靜乃正。明乃鑑。虛乃容。深奧所造乃清。雖其方丈環堵之室。至道則清風浩氣光天地貫古今。妙乎人間世。而絕出窅然。不必在乎青山白雲也。寥廓無際。不必在乎世表方外也。上人其好既有至道之趣。而潛子乃以趣軒名其北軒。而文之益示慈化志之所尚清勝。潛子猛陵之契嵩也。

The northern veranda where Metropolitan Monk Rector Cihua resided was the innermost retreat of the hermitage, and among all its windows, the most airy and luminous. In stillness one could find peace; in rest one could find repose. It so happened that Cihua was delighted with it and wished Qianzi to give it a name and erect a sign. Qianzi said to Cihua: 'Master Liaoxing, all people have things they enjoy, but your enjoyment delights in being close to the Way; is this not almost consummate? Stillness is rectitude; luminosity is reflection; emptiness is containment; and that attained in deep seclusion is purity. Even in a room of ten square feet surrounded by earthen walls, when the supreme Way is present, its pure breeze and vast spirit illuminate heaven and earth and penetrate antiquity and the present, wondrously present in the human world yet standing out aloft and profound, not necessarily confined to green mountains and white clouds; vast and boundless, not necessarily situated beyond the world and outside the realm. Since your enjoyment already possesses the inclination toward the supreme Way, Qianzi has named your northern veranda