何者可谓戴发高僧？
[311] Who Can [Be] Called ‘Hair-Wearing High Monastics’?
如来说法，恒顺众生。遇父言慈，遇子言孝。
[The] Thus Come [One] spoke [the] Dharma, [which] constantly accorded [with] sentient beings. [When] meeting fathers, speaking [on] loving-kindness. [When] meeting children, speaking [on] filial piety.
外尽人伦，内消情虑，使复本有真心，是名为佛弟子，岂在两根头发上论也？
[Those] externally [doing their] utmost [in] human relations, [and] internally eliminating [false] emotions [and] thoughts, [to] enable return [to their] originally possessed true minds, are named as [the] Buddha’s disciples. How can this be [with] two strands [of] head hairs above [or not] discussed?
[Note: Whether one is a true Buddha’s disciple or not, does not depend on one’s head being shaven to be a monastic or not; but on whether one practises the Dharma sincerely and accordingly or not.]
仗此好心，竭力学道，孝弟修而闾里感化，斋戒立而杀盗潜消。
Relying on this good mind, do the utmost [to] learn [the] path. [With] filial piety [and] brotherly fraternity cultivated, then [with the] village touched [and] transformed. [With the] Purification Precepts established, then [with] killing [and] stealing secretly eliminated.
研究净土经论，则知出苦之要道。受持《安士全书》，则知淑世之良谟。以净土法门谕亲，以净土法门教子，及诸亲识。
Study [the] Pure Land sūtras [and] commentaries, [to] then know [the] essential path of exiting suffering. Receive [and] uphold ‘Ānshì’s Complete Book’, [to] then know [the] good plan of aiding [the] world. With [the] Pure Land Dharma Door instruct parents, [and] with [the] Pure Land Dharma Door teach children, all relatives [and] friends.
正以生死事大，深宜痛恤我后。不必另择一所，即家庭便是道场。以父母、兄弟、妻子、朋友、亲戚，尽作法眷。
[It is] precisely with [liberation from the cycle of] birth [and] death’s matter [being] great, [that there] should [be] deep [and] painstaking sympathy [for] my future. [There] need not [be] choosing [of] another place, [as] then [in the] family, [this] exactly is [the] place [for (learning, practising and) realising the] path. With fathers [and] mothers, brothers [and sisters], wives [and] children, friends [and] relatives, completely becoming Dharma family members.
自行化他，口劝身率，使其同归净域，尽出苦轮。可谓戴发高僧，居家佛子矣。
[With] personal practice transforming others, [the] mouth encouraging, [and the] body leading, enabling [them to] together return [to the] pure region [i.e. Pure Land (净土)], [to] completely exit suffering’s wheel, [these] can [be] called [as] ‘hair-wearing high monastics’, [the] Buddha’s house-dwelling disciples.
净土宗十三祖印光大师
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
《印光法师文钞》（正编）：复林介生书一；
Dharma Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings (First Compilation): First Reply Letter [To] Lín Jièshēng;
印光大师文钞菁华录（第三百十一则）：九、谕在家善信：乙、勖居尘学道（第L六则）
Record [Of] Great Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings’ Essence (311th Short Section): 9th [Chapter]: Instructions For Householders [To Be] Good And Faithful: Second, Enjoinment [Of Those] Dwelling [In The] Dusts [To] Learn [The] Path (6th Short Section)
[Ref: #311 / 9.2.6]
Namo Amituofo : Translation and note by Shen Shi’an
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《印光大师文钞菁华录》
Record Of Great Master Yìnguāng’s Collected Writings’ Essence
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