Скачать или смотреть #40 Stone Man 石頭人【The Memories of Master Hua 宣化上人紀念特輯】

I remember a long time ago there was a man who wasn’t white, black, yellow, or red — a misfit of some sort. He was about 5’ 4” and very thin. He came to Gold Mountain Monastery, but he didn’t come in the door. He sat in meditation outside the door. It was raining, but he sat right through the rain for three or four days. He didn’t talk to anyone. He didn’t talk to himself either. One day one of the laywomen felt sorry for him and invited him into Gold Mountain Monastery, but he didn’t come in. He kept on sitting outside. If anyone went and tried to talk to him, he wouldn’t speak to them. Then I went out and he talked to me. I asked him what his surname was and he said, “Stone.” His name, he said, was “Man.” So he was called Stone Man. I asked where he came from, and he said, “The mountains.” When I asked what he’d come for, he said, “To seek the Dharma.” I said, “I haven’t any Dharma here to be sought, so you’ve come and now you’re disappointed.” He said he was not disappointed.

So we told him to come into Gold Mountain Monastery, but he didn’t eat or drink or relieve himself. Every day he sat in meditation. It seemed as if he might be a hippy and be smoking dope, so the monks checked him out. The clothes he wore were filthy. He wore jeans, jacket and pants, and the only thing he was carrying on him was a piece of charcoal. When asked what it was for, he said it kept him warm. He stayed in the temple for several days like that. He would meditate all day in the Buddhahall along with everyone else and when it was time to sleep he would go up to a room.

People were afraid he would steal things at night, so they had someone guard him at night. The guard would sleep inside the room with him, leaning against the door from the inside; if the stone man tried to leave the room he would certainly wake up the guard. They could guard him in this way, because since he didn’t relieve himself, he wouldn’t need to leave the room for that reason. However, even though they kept him under guard like this, one day the stone man simply disappeared.

Why do I tell you about him? A stone man could come to Gold Mountain Monastery seeking the Dharma, but we people who are the most adroit of all creatures still don’t cultivate to the best of our ability. Isn’t that a pity?
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今天講一件真實的事。約在十年前，有個非黑非白的怪人，衣衫襤褸，十分邋遢，身長五尺多高，骨瘦如柴，面無表情。有一天，來金山禪寺大門的外邊，倚牆而坐。這時，天降大雨，他仍然不動。有人叫他進來，他不理不睬。好像入定，不飲不食，不和任何人講話。

約有三天，我到門外看他。他雖然不跟旁人講話，但他卻和我講話。我問他姓什麼？答：「姓石。」問他叫什麼名字？答：「叫人。」又問他從什麼地方來？答：「從山上來。」又問他來做什麼？答：「來求法。」我說：「我們這裏無法可求，會令你失望。」他說：「我不會失望。」這樣問答之後，他便跟我走進金山禪寺。隨大眾坐禪，睡覺，可是不吃飯，不飲水，不小便，也不大便，成為古怪人。

天天坐在那裏打坐，不講話，也不行動。從外表看來，好像吸毒，又好像嬉皮。在他身上藏著一截木炭，問他做什麼用？他說：「可以取暖。」住了幾天，隨大眾的行動，大家在禪堂打坐，他也打坐；大家到樓上睡覺，他也到樓上睡覺。大家怕他偷東西，乃派一個人監視他。他在屋內睡覺，監視的人在門外倚門而睡。如果他開門時，監視的人一定能發覺。

有一天，這個石頭人，忽然不見了。監守人也感到莫名其妙，不知他是用什麼法子溜走的。今天為什麼要講這件事？因為石頭人尚且來金山禪寺求法，何況我們是萬物之靈，還不好好學法，實在很可憐啊！
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The Oral History Project (OHP) is an initiative to introduce Dhyana Master Hsuan Hua, the cultivator who brought orthodox Mahayana Buddhism to the western world. He is the 45th Patriarch from Shakyamuni Buddha, the 18th Patriarch in China from Bodhidharma, the 9th Patriarch of the Wei Yang Lineage, and the first Patriarch in the West.

The OHP video series gives you a glimpse of the Master’s character and methods of teaching through the – previously undocumented – personal experiences of people who had the opportunity to learn directly from him.

This project aims to keep the Master’s teachings alive through videos of personal accounts that could inspire even those who do not yet know the Master. The memories and stories of each person interviewed enables us to feel closer to the Master as if we were learning directly from him ourselves.

這項口述歷史影片計畫主要是為了介紹三藏法師 上宣下化老和尚 ⎯ 一位將正統大乘佛法帶到西方世界的高僧大德。宣化上人稟承釋迦牟尼佛為第四十五世傳法人，是中國禪宗始祖菩提達摩傳承的第十八世祖師，也是溈仰宗第九世接法人，更是傳法西方的第一代祖師。

這一系列的口述影像，將透過諸位弟子描述當年跟追隨上人學習佛法的親身體驗，藉由他們從末曝光的點滴舊事， 帶您認識宣公上人的風範以及他的教化。此計劃旨在發揚宣公上人的教法，冀望透過口述專訪，啟發尚未認識老和尚的人; 希望透過每位受訪者對上人的回憶及故事，讓我們彷彿也在上人座下親受其教，親聆法音。

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