高僧傳 10.15

10.15

史宗者，不知何許人。常著麻衣，或重之為納，故世號麻衣道士。身多瘡疥，性調不恒。常在廣陵白土埭，賃埭謳唱，引䋏以自欣暢，得直隨以施人。栖憩無定所，或隱或顯。時高平檀祇為江都令，聞而召來。應對機捷，無所拘滯，博達稽古，辯說玄儒。乃賦詩一首曰：「有欲苦不足，無欲亦無憂。未若清虛者，帶索被玄裘。浮遊一世間，汎若不繫舟。方當畢塵累，栖志且山丘。」檀祇知非常人，遣還所在。遺布三十匹，悉以乞人。

Shi Zong's origins are unknown. He always wore hemp robes, sometimes layering them into a patched monk's cassock, so people of his day called him the "Hemp-robed Daoist." His body had many sores and scabs, and his temperament was fickle. He was often at the Baitu Dike in Guangling, hiring himself out to work the dike and singing aloud, pulling the haul-ropes to cheer himself, and immediately giving away his earnings to others. He had no fixed dwelling, sometimes hiding away and sometimes showing himself. At that time, Tan Qi of Gaoping was magistrate of Jiangdu; hearing of him, Tan Qi summoned him. Shi Zong's responses were quick and nimble, unhampered and unhindered; widely versed in antiquity, he spoke with eloquence on both the profound and the Confucian. He then composed a poem, which said: / "Possessing desires, one suffers from insufficiency; / Free of desires, one is also free of sorrow. / Yet nothing compares to the pure and vacant one, / Girt with a rope and clad in a dark cloak. / Floating and drifting through this world, / Bobbing along like an unmoored boat. / Now about to end all worldly burdens, / He lodges his mind, for the time being, in the hills." / Tan Qi knew he was no ordinary man and sent him back to where he lived. Tan Qi gifted him thirty bolts of cloth, all of which Shi Zong gave away to beggars.