No. 268-C楞嚴集註敘
Preface to the Shurangama Sutra Collected Commentary
黃面老子云：若有一人發真歸源，十方虗空悉皆消殞。五祖演和上云：若有一人發真歸源，十方虗空築著磕著。是皆慈悲之故，落草之談。四明景良居士王元明，因閱楞嚴，自謂於徵心辯見處，知心無徵，了見非辯，重刊茲板，流布是經。雖則錦上添華，亦是眼中著屑。千岩更說箇什麼？經有經師，論有論師，爭怪得老僧？
The sallow-faced elder said: "If one person awakens to truth and returns to the source, the vast emptiness in all ten directions will completely vanish."
The Fifth Patriarch, Master Fayen, said: "If one person awakens to truth and returns to the source, the vast emptiness in all ten directions will be knocked into and bump against." Both remarks arise from compassion, being words spoken while walking among the grass.
Wang Yuanming, a wise layman from Siming, read the *Shurangama Sutra* and realized for himself: "When examining the mind, there is nowhere to locate it; when discerning true seeing, there is nothing to argue. Therefore, he had this edition re-carved and circulated the sutra. While this may be adding flowers to brocade, it is also like putting dust in the eye."
Now Qianyan says: What more need be said? There are teachers for the sutras, teachers for the treatises. How can this old monk be blamed?
伏龍山元長敬題
Written with reverence by Yuanzhang of Fulong Mountain.