釋氏稽古略 4.347

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四月十七日。明州延慶教寺法師草庵名道因入滅。壽七十八。夏六十一。自幼遊歷諸方。登明智照慧之堂。又入真歇了宏智覺無示諶之禪室。回歸讀指要鈔。方大悟。初住延慶。拈香曰。三入禪室。五陞講堂。始終親近八善知識。彼皆光明碩大有德有言者緣不在彼。如水投石。此一瓣香。敬為承嗣延慶第一世法智尊者。存則人亡則書。心不負人面無慚色。高宗紹興丙寅退居城南草庵。以生平所得道妙。著草庵錄十卷。其言文而真。江湖誦之（本傳）。

On the seventeenth day of the fourth month, Dharma Master Daoyin, styled Cao'an, of Yanqing Teaching Monastery in Mingzhou, entered extinction at the age of seventy-eight, with a monastic seniority of sixty-one. From his youth he traveled through the various regions, entering the hall of Mingzhi Zhaohui, and also entered the Chan rooms of Zhenxie Qingliao, Hongzhi Zhengjue, and Wushi Shen. Upon returning, he read the Zhiyao chao and only then attained great awakening. When he first assumed the abbacy of Yanqing, he offered incense and said: "Three times I entered the Chan room, and five times I mounted the lecture hall; from beginning to end I drew close to eight good spiritual friends. They were all grandly radiant, possessed of virtue and eloquence, yet my affinity did not lie with them, like casting water upon stone. This pinch of incense is respectfully offered to succeed to the Venerable Fazhi, the first generation of Yanqing. If he lived, it would be the man; since he is dead, it is his writings. My heart does not betray others, and my face bears no shame." In the bingyin year of the Shaoxing era under Emperor Gaozong, he retired to the South Gate Thatched Hut (Cao'an); drawing upon the marvel of the Way attained throughout his life, he composed the Cao'an lu in ten fascicles. Its words were refined yet true, chanted by all across rivers and lakes (from his primary biography).