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伏牛自在 Funiu Zizai (741-821)

7.113 伊闕伏牛山自在禪師 Chan Master Yique Niushan Zizai [sic!]
In: Records of the Transmission of the Lamp: Volume 2: The Early Masters. (Books 4-9),
Translated by Randolph S. Whitfield, 2015

Chan master Zizai (741-821 CE) of Funiu Mountain in Yique (Henan)
was a native of Wuxing (Zhejiang), whose family name was Li. At
first he trained under Chan master Guoyi of Jing Mountain. Having
received the precepts he journeyed to Nankang (Jiangxi) to see Dayi
(Mazu) and there the Heart-ground manifested. Due to this Dayi sent
[the master with] a letter to National Teacher [Hui]Zhong (5.89). The
National Teacher asked him, ‘What does Patriarch Ma show his
disciples?’
‘“Just Heart is Buddha” ’, replied the master.
‘What words!’ said the National Teacher. After a moment he asked
again, ‘Apart from this is there still something else he teaches?’
The master replied, ‘ “Not Heart, Not Buddha” or he says, “It is
neither Heart nor is it Buddha. It is not a thing.” ’
‘That’s about it,’ said the National Teacher.
‘Master Ma does it like that but we have not enquired – how does
it go with the venerable sir?’ asked the master.
‘The Three Points are like flowing water, the crooked resembles a
scythe for mowing grain,’ replied the National Teacher.*
Later the master ensconced himself in the Funiu Mountains, where
he spoke to the assembly one day, saying, ‘“Just Heart is Buddha” is
a phrase for seeking a cure even though there is no sickness. The
phrase “Not Heart, not Buddha” is the cure to administer to a
sickness.’
A monk asked, ‘What is the basic liberating phrase?’
‘It has ever been transmitted under Funiu Mountain, today, as of
old, ’ replied the National Teacher.
Later the master revealed his cessation at the Kaiyuan Monastery
in Suizhou (Hubei). He was eighty-one years old.

* The Three Points refers to a Sanskrit sign indicating neither unity nor difference; here it means ‘heart’. DCBT:200b.