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title: "隱元禪師語錄 · 清漳淨塵上人求薦乃師樵雲公"
description: "隐元禅师语录是明末清初高僧隐元隆琦的言行记录由弟子海宁等人编撰成书。隐元禅师为临济宗高僧于明末动乱后东渡日本开创黄檗宗对中日佛教交流影响深远。本书收录其开示法语书信等内容系统阐述禅宗思想修行法门及净土归趣融合禅净二宗思想。该语录是研究隐元思想及黄檗宗的重要文献展现了明清之际禅宗的风貌与中国佛教对日本的文化输出在佛教史上具有重要地位。"
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### 清漳淨塵上人求薦乃師樵雲公

余初出家時便聞公名，欲渴見而未能。一日，公過碧芝巖，道經黃檗，觀公德澤潤如春膏，誠不虛平昔所慕也。別後，余行腳遍參，經歷二十餘年。及庚午回閩，復面公於芝山精舍。然間有議：公未具佛祖爪牙，豈堪為人師範？殊不知，有一行過人一德可嘉者，亦足為濁世之標準。近聞歸寂石室，令人嗟嘆不已，遂寄瓣香，以表昔年之好。其徒淨塵令台則上人，不遠五百里而來，乞求法語，為助薦愧。余學淺心粗，寧敢放言污瀆先輩面門耶？因見上人虔虔懇懇，似不得免，聊敘數言，以塞來命。夫薦師之道，不須別求，別求終不得力。直須向自己腳跟下一刀兩段，百了千當。不獨上人師祖已薦，乃至盡恒沙際一切師僧、父母、有情無情俱已薦矣。何故？悟則事同一家，不悟則萬別千差。上人果不外余言，異日得到與麼時，始信吾不汝欺也。

> When I first left home to become a monk, I heard of your name and longed to meet you, but I could not. One day, you traveled past Bi Zhi Rock and passed through Huangbo. Seeing that your virtue flowed like spring rain, I realized my admiration for you had not been misplaced. After we parted, I wandered widely, visiting many teachers for over twenty years. In the year Gengwu, I returned to Fujian and met you again at Zhishan Monastery. However, I heard people say: “This master lacks the claws and fangs of the Buddhas and patriarchs—how can he serve as a teacher for others?” They did not realize that even a single virtue or accomplishment beyond the ordinary is enough to be a model in this defiled world. Recently, I learned that you passed away in your stone chamber, and I cannot stop sighing with regret. So I offer a pinch of incense to remember our past friendship. Your disciple Jingchen asked Master Taize to travel five hundred miles to request a Dharma teaching to help in his remembrance of you. I am shallow in learning and coarse in mind—how dare I speak carelessly and defile the face of a senior? Yet seeing Taize’s sincerity and earnestness, I could not refuse. So I offer a few words to fulfill his request. The way to help one’s teacher in the beyond does not require seeking elsewhere—seeking elsewhere will never yield real power. One must simply cut through right beneath one’s own heel with one stroke, settling everything once and for all. Then not only will the teacher who has passed be helped, but all teachers, parents, sentient beings, and even insentient beings throughout countless worlds will also be helped. Why? Because when you awaken, everything is of the same family; when you do not, all things are infinitely different. If you, Taize, truly do not dismiss my words, then one day when you reach this state, you will know I have not deceived you.

後堂默公入室禮拜起，號泣漣然，余曰：「奚為也？」公云：「父母欲進葬，乞和尚法語為薦拔。」余曰：「生事死葬，人子之道畢矣！何乃號泣若是？然我教貴乎心喪，略其哭泣，欲泯愛惡而直趨清淨之域，以此顯親報德，不亦大且至乎？」公曰：「先母啟手足時，未及一面，偶思至此，不覺而慟，伏惟和尚慈悲體悉。」余曰：「誠哉！孝之不可掩也如此。」遂援筆為助：「形生大本重丘山，未報劬勞暗淚潸，忽悟萬靈共一體，雙親頓證剎那間。」

西堂恒公求法語，為薦令先考季熙居士母林氏。余乃粗行沙門，尋嘗乾爆爆地過日，曷有片言隻字塗污於人也，遂力辭，而不能已。搜盡枯腸，仍無可說。偶記童蒙時數句，援引為助。或當否，冀公裁之。立身行道，揚名於後世，以顯父母，孝之終也。然公立身有年，中外頗聞，而父母寧不超拔，曷用余之贅言而後為薦耶？既拔又薦，大似賊過後張弓，縱有飛騎之捷、金牙之作，徒費其力，詎補於事乎？公益請不退，復占一偈：「孜孜乞法薦宗親，當得閻浮半個人。擉破娘生雙鼻孔，大千沙界露全身。」

良守禪人搆精舍於資福舊址，接待方來二十餘年，其心不倦，誠不昧疇昔之本願也。余辛巳春南遊，道經於此，請余齋，仍索法語為徵。然路途中，豈可與人說佛法？但敘其平生為人之梗概，與夫往來者共識之。大言弗華，至樸無文，頭頭可據，事事有君。導人之善兮多生資福，固守良心兮永劫不渾。

顯密禪人求偈，壽母七旬。余念其孝行可嘉，遂占數言為助。乞法壽其親，其親等法相，法存親亦存，其壽莫能量。我法如春霖，資生物物長。大哉余道婆，聞法預皈向，教子謁泉石，泉石聲愈響，推兒禮檗山，檗山清且亮。七寶滿虛空，不如法供養。子孝母更賢，無物堪比況，真個古來稀，法門之榜樣。

維那學公父龍泉母嚴氏同余母龔氏，共葬於熨斗山臥雲菴之傍，其塔曰報恩。時皇明歲在辛巳庚申日也，復捐衣資計田粒，以為春秋掃塔之需，仍備香信，乞法音，用作追薦之功。余謂父母既得其所，人子之念已息。念既頓息，十方坐斷，恩波坦平，我人一致，都盧是個清淨大解脫場，于中求其能薦所薦之者，了不可得，況筆舌文言而能情狀其萬一者乎？所謂忘機則佛道隆，分別則魔軍熾。願公一息永息，更不再息；一證永證，更不再證。苟能如是，不惟當人父母已薦，至于無量劫來，尊尊親親，莫不俱已薦矣。偈曰：「捧母金軀入翠微，紅爐煆過愈光輝。百千龍象咸瞻仰，星月依依常遶圍。」