佛祖統紀 18.34

18.34

Dharma Master Jingwu, styled Jixian, was of the Li family of Leqing in Wen. In his youth, he already knew aversion to worldly life and went to rely on Feiquan Yuanjue of Mount Yandang. At nineteen, he received the full precepts. At first, he called upon Ding'an Tong to study doctrinal teachings and contemplation. At that time, Xiu'an resided at Shouchang and was dedicated to lecturing; Jingwu went to seek instruction. Xiu'an asked what Ding'an instructed people with. The master said: 'He expounds the meaning of seeking the cart.' Xiu'an said: 'Does one seek the cart in the Land of Quiescent Light?' The master did not understand, harboring the doubt in his breast to the point of almost abandoning eating and sleeping. Xiu'an, moved by his sincerity, patted his back and said: 'When the tip of doubt is exposed, the jewel repository is not far away.' Before long, he suddenly had an awakening; from this point on, difficulties in the doctrinal school were resolved like a knife meeting bamboo. Throughout the lecture halls of Wu and Yue, there was nowhere he did not freely observe. His aspiration and spirit were lofty and prominent, rarely granting approval to others. He often admonished himself, saying: 'Cooking rice in a broken cauldron, resting in the midst of the woods, borrowing the mouth of empty space to speak to all phenomena—what shame do I have? As for having insufficient learning, achieving things by relying on others, clinging to a few lines of words on paper, gathering a hundred or ten fledging practitioners, living in grand mansions and spacious halls, and having food piled high over ten square feet—I will not do so.' The master initially revived the buildings at Feiquan. Soon after, he reluctantly complied with the requests of the multitude to go forth and preside over Jingtu in Tiantai; daily he diligently lectured, and all neglected undertakings were fully restored. In his later years, he returned to his old dwelling at Feiquan, taking mindfulness of the Buddha as his daily practice. When struck with illness, he wrote in large characters to show the multitude, saying: 'Seeking doctors and asking for medicine disturbs my transformation. I shall silently observe its change.' The next morning, sitting upright, he cast off the physical body. It was the twenty-sixth day of the ninth month in the dingmao year of Kaixi. On the day of cremation, his ears and teeth remained intact. His disciple Wenhu stupaed him at the western foot of the monastery. Beijian Jujian composed an inscription for him, saying: 'This was Huo'an. Hearing and expounding the dhāraṇī, two kinds of indestructible repositories. What virtue and morality revere, though hidden, is manifest. I know that those of a different age yet of the same mind will shed tears on the south side of Mount Yandang.'