開悟要印證才算數

　　Enlightenment Must Be Certified Before It Counts

　　開悟要經得起考驗，否則成爲大妄語，要墮無間地獄。

　　People who claim enlightenment have to stand up to the test; otherwise,

　　they are simply telling a great lie and will fall into the Relentless Hells.

　　在威音王佛以前，人人能開悟，不需要有人印證。在威音王佛以後，自覺開悟的人，一定要經過祖師或善知識(已開悟)印可證明才算數。好像在楞嚴法會上，有二十五位聖人，各述圓通，請釋迦牟尼佛印證。

　　Before the time of the Buddha Awesome Voice, any person could get enlightened, and he wouldn”t need to be certified by another person. But after the time of the Buddha Awesome Voice, someone who feels he is enlightened must be certified by a Patriarch or an enlightened Good and Wise Advisor for it to really count. For example, The Shurangama Sutra lists the stories of twenty-five Sages who describe their perfect enlightenments and who request Shakyamuni Buddha to certify their attainments.

　　現在講一個印證的公案。在唐朝有位永嘉大師，他生于浙江省永嘉縣。因爲他一生沒有離開永嘉縣，所以時人稱爲永嘉大師。他出家之後，研究天臺教理，好修禅觀，曾閱《維摩經》，豁然大悟。後來遇到玄策禅師(六祖的弟子)，永嘉大師就對他敘述此事。玄策建議他去曹溪參拜六祖，請求印證；否則無師自悟，乃是天然外道。

　　I”ll now tell the story of such a certification. In the Tang Dynasty of China there was a Great Master called Yongjia (Eternal Excellence) who was born in Yongjia county of Zhejiang Province. Because he stayed in Yongjia all his life, people gave him the name Great Master Yongjia. After he left the home-life, he studied the teachings of the Tian Tai School and cultivated meditative contemplation. One day while reading The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, he suddenly got enlightened. Soon after, he met a disciple of the Sixth Patriarch named Chan Master Xuance (Mystic Law), and told him his story. Master Xuance suggested that he go to Tsao Creek to study under the Sixth Patriarch and to request certification of his enlightenment. To do otherwise, to claim that one has become enlightened by oneself, without benefit of a teacher, would make one a follower of the externalists who believed in spontaneity.

　　他來到曹溪南華寺的時候，恰巧是六祖坐禅時間，他貢高我慢，來到六祖禅床前，也不問訊，也不頂禮，手執錫杖，右繞禅床叁匝，振錫而立。

　　When he arrived at Nanhua Monastery in Tsao Creek, the Sixth Patriarch was meditating. Master Yongjia, full of pride, strode over to the front of the Patriarch”s meditation seat. Without even making a half-bow or full-bow, he simply grasped his tin staff, walked three times around the Patriarch”s seat, and then stood and rapped his staff on the ground.

　　六祖說：「沙門應具叁千威儀，八萬細行。行行無虧，名爲沙門(譯爲勤息：勤修戒定慧，息滅貪瞋癡)。大德自何方而來，生大我慢？」

　　永嘉答：「生死事大，無常迅速。」

　　六祖說：「何不體取無生？了無速乎？」

　　永嘉答：「體即無生，了本無速。」

　　六祖說：「汝甚得無生之意。」

　　永嘉說：「無生豈有意耶？」

　　六祖說：「無意誰當分別？」

　　永嘉說：「分別亦非意！」

　　六祖說：「如是如是。」乃授與印可證明，成爲六祖的法嗣。

　　The Sixth Patriarch said, "Shramanas (monks) ought to possess the Three Thousand Modes of Awesome Deportment, and the Eighty Thousand Subtle Manners. Only when one”s behavior is impeccable does one merit the name Shramana. [Shramana means "diligent and putting to rest." A Shramana "diligently cultivates precepts, concentration, and wisdom, and puts to rest greed, hatred, and stupidity."] Where do you, O Virtuous One, come from

　　 And why are you so arrogant

　　"

　　Master Yongjia answered, "Birth and death is the only important thing, and impermanence comes with haste."

　　The Sixth Patriarch said, "Then why don”t you embody birthless-ness; why don”t you understand no-haste

　　"

　　Master Yongjia answered, "The embodiment originally was not subject to birth. When you understand, then there is no further haste."

　　The Sixth Patriarch said, "You have really grasped the idea of birthlessness."

　　Master Yongjia said, "Do you mean to say that birthlessness is an idea

　　"

　　The Sixth Patriarch said, "If it isn”t an idea, then how can you distinguish it

　　"

　　Master Yongjia said, "Making distinctions is not an idea, either."

　　"You are so right! You are so right!" said the Sixth Patriarch, and thereupon certified him and made him his Dharma heir.

　　永嘉大師得六祖大師印證之後，即刻要回永嘉開元寺。六祖留他住一宿，次日再下山回永嘉。因爲在一宿的…

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