Chunzi Decheng, Daowu Yuanjie,
and Yunyan Tansheng all received Dharma transmission from Yaoshan Weiyan.
Chunzi said to the other two: “I know that both of you will eventually go your
separate ways and continue our master’s Dharma.
That isn’t my path; I lack that discipline. I enjoy nature and will follow my own
way. I’m not fit to be the teacher of a
great assembly. Still, if an appropriate
student comes to you, please send him to me so that I may repay our teacher by
passing on what little I’ve learned.”
He then became a ferryman and
was popularly known to the people he helped cross the river as the “Boatman
monk.”
[Chunzi
Decheng – Zen Masters of China: 119-20,
121]
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