Running My Brush, I Give This to Wi the Good Friend走筆贈威知識
憶昨往拜和闍梨。談空說有夕晷移。是時偶見老尊宿。破衲半肩縫萬絲。子豈佛隴的孫歟。目擊不言心自知。挑燈相近接談笑。口風吹却雪山欹。自言天台學止觀。粗窮八敎與五時。早年抽身名利門。有如魚鳥不可囚籠池。一朝勇去靑山白雲裡。採松食葉聊充飢。忽聞孀母嬰沈瘵。百舍重繭來洛師。遑遑汲汲思療理。恨不遇金樻探方三世醫。世人殊未解。應笑浪奔馳。顧我赤霞衣。多被紅塵緇。紅塵不堪久。綠蘿不可欺。振錫還山無幾日。要與吾子專夕論心脾。相將握手到僑居。烹蔬晚食話到雞喔咿。囑予明日復見訪。出門丁寧聞此辭。明朝有雨如倒河。我尙不欲孤前期。撥泥踏水來叩扃。撫掌迎笑欣揚眉。坐客况有河秀才。鐺脚相對語忘疲。樽中有酒香酷烈。師雖不飮勸我頻巵巵。夜深輟飮開茗席。明日入戶偏相窺。明發師當去。我豈獨受名韁縻。若許陪杖屨。且向丹崖碧嶂同栖遲。君不見遠公在匡山。亦容陶陸相追隨。
I remember going the other day to call on Hwa the Sari (和闍梨), and while we spoke of emptiness (空) and discussed existence (有), the evening shadow shifted. At that time I chanced to see an old venerable (尊宿), his worn robe half covering his shoulder, patched with ten thousand threads. Are you not the true grandson of Folong (佛隴)? Our eyes met, and without speaking the heart knew of itself. Trimming the lamp we sat close and shared our talk and laughter, and the wind of his mouth blew the snow mountain over. He said of himself that he had learned cessation and insight (止觀) in the Cheontae school, and had roughly exhausted the Eight Teachings (八敎) and the Five Periods (五時). In his young years he drew his body out of the gate of name and gain, like fish and birds that cannot be shut in cage and pond. In one morning he went bravely into the green hills and white clouds, and digging up pine and eating its leaves he barely filled his hunger. Hearing of a sudden that his widowed mother had fallen into a deep sickness, with feet blistered over and over on a hundred li of road he came to the capital. Flustered and in haste, thinking how to get her cured, he grieves that he cannot meet with the Golden Chest (金樻) and find the prescriptions of the three generations of physicians. The men of the world do not understand at all, and will laugh at him for running about in vain. Looking back, my robe of crimson haze has been much blackened by the red dust. The red dust I cannot long endure, and the green creeping vines cannot be deceived. Few days are left before I shake out my staff and go back to the hills, and I would spend a whole evening with you discoursing of the heart. Hand in hand we came to the lodging where he was staying, boiled greens and ate a late meal, and talked until the cocks crowed. He charged me to come again the next day, and as I stepped out of the gate I heard this word earnestly. The next morning the rain was as though a river were poured out upside down, yet I did not wish to fail the promise made before. Pushing through the mud and treading the water I came and knocked at the bar, and he clapped his hands, met me laughing, and gladly raised his brows. Among the seated guests there was moreover the scholar Ha, and sitting face to face like the legs of a cauldron we talked and forgot our weariness. There was wine in the jar and its fragrance was very strong, and the master, without drinking himself, pressed cup after cup on me. The night grew deep, we left off drinking and opened a tea-seat, and the bright sun came in at the door and peeped in strangely. When day breaks the master will depart; why should I alone be tied in the halter of a name? If you will allow me to attend your staff and sandals, I too would go to the red cliffs and blue peaks and rest there with you. Have you not seen how, when Huiyuan (慧遠) was at Mount Kuang (匡山), he too suffered Tao Qian and Lu Xiujing to follow him?
Interlinear notes 1
名次威。自天台宗。捨名入山。
His name is Chawi (次威). He gave up his name in the Cheontae school and went into the mountains.