[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) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 18.22 # 法苑珠林 18.22 法苑珠林 18.22 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [18.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.18.22) 梁有廣州南海郡人何規。以歲次協洽月呂黃鍾。天監十四年十月二十三日。採藥於豫章胡翼山。幸非放子逐臣。乃類尋仙招隱。登峯十所里。屑若有來。將循曲陌先限清㵎。或如止水。乍有潔流方從揭厲。且就褰攬。未濟之間忽不自覺。見㵎之西隅有一長者。語規勿渡。規於時即留。其人面色正青。徒跣捨屨。年可八九十。面已皺𣫍。鬚長五六寸。髭半於鬚耳聳過於眉。眉皆下被。眉之長毛長二三寸。隨風相靡。脣色甚赤語響而清。手爪正黃。指毛亦長二三寸。著布帔下赭布泥洹僧手捉書一卷遙投與規。規即奉持望禮三拜。語規可以此經與安安王。兼言王之姓字。此經若至宜作三七日齋。若不曉齋法可問下林寺副公。副法師者。戒行精苦恬憺無為遺嗜欲等豪賤。蔬藿自充禪寂無怠。此長者言畢便去。行十餘步間忽然不覩。規開視卷內。題名為慧印三昧經。經旨以至極。法身無相為體。理出百非義逾名相。寂同法相妙等真如。言其慧照。比理有若全印心冥凝寂。故以三昧為名（見梁朝僧祐律師弘明集錄也）。 > In the Liang, there was He Gui, a native of Nanhai Commandery in Guangzhou. In the year Xieqia and the month corresponding to the Huangzhong pitch pipe, on the twenty-third day of the tenth month in the fourteenth year of the Tianjian era, he was gathering herbs on Mount Huyi in Yuzhang. Fortunately, he was neither an exile nor an outcast, but rather seemed like one seeking immortals and summoning recluses. Climbing the peak for ten-odd li, \[stepping through\] dust as if arriving somewhere, he was about to follow a winding path when he was first obstructed by a clear stream. It was still like standing water in some parts, and suddenly a pure torrent; he was just about to wade through it and lift his garments. Before crossing, suddenly, without realizing it, he saw an elder on the western bank of the stream, who told Gui not to cross. Gui then stayed where he was. The man's face was pure blue-green; he went barefoot without shoes. He was about to be eighty or ninety years old, his face already wrinkled, his beard five or six inches long, his mustache half the length of his beard, his ears protruding above his eyebrows, and his eyebrows drooping all the way down. The long hairs of his eyebrows were two to three inches long, fluttering with the wind. His lips were very red, and his voice was resonant and clear. His fingernails were pure yellow, and the hair on his fingers was also two to three inches long. He wore a cloth cape and a niwasana of ochre cloth beneath it. Holding a roll of text in his hand, he tossed it from afar to Gui. Gui received it respectfully, bowed thrice from afar, and \[the elder\] told Gui: "You may give this sūtra to Prince An'an," also stating the prince's surname and given name. "When this sūtra arrives, a retreat of three times seven days should be held. If he does not understand the method of the retreat, he may ask Master Fu of Xialin Temple. Dharma Master Fu's precepts and conduct are rigorous and ascetic; he is serene and non-acting, having abandoned desires, regarding the noble and humble as equal. He satisfies himself with wild greens and beans, and never slacks in meditative stillness." When this elder finished speaking, he departed. Walking a dozen paces, he suddenly vanished. Gui opened and viewed the roll; the title was the Wisdom Seal Samādhi Sūtra. The purport of the sūtra takes the utmost, the signless Dharmakāya, as its essence. Its principle transcends the hundred negations, and its meaning surpasses names and signs. It is quiet and identical with the nature of phenomena, wondrous and equal to tathatā. As for its wisdom illumination: compared with principle, it is like a complete seal, the mind merging into frozen stillness; hence it is named 'samādhi'. (Recorded in Vinaya Master Sengyou's Hongming ji of the Liang dynasty). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 18.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.18.21) - [Next: 18.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.18.23) - [Up: 18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.18) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.18.22) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [出三藏記集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2145.7.51) — 僧祐, Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.18.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.18.22) · Pramāṇa