高僧傳 7.27

7.27

In the early Yuanjia era of the Song, Xu Xianzhi, Tan Daoji, and others monopolized the court government. [Fan] Tai wore an indignant expression and once spoke out boldly, denouncing them. [Xu] Xianzhi and the others resented this deeply. Those who heard of it all feared that [Fan] Tai would suffer unforeseen disaster, and [Fan] Tai also worried that calamity would reach him; he thus asked [Hui]yi for the art of staying safe. [Hui]yi said: 'If loyalty and compliance are not lost in serving one's superior, superior and inferior can remain affectionate toward each other; what worry is there to be concerned about?' He then urged [Fan] Tai to donate his sixty-mu bamboo orchard to the temple as a blessing in the unseen world. [Fan] Tai followed his advice and ultimately enjoyed good fortune. When [Fan] Tai died, his third son, [Fan] Yan, claimed that [Hui]yi had previously taken advantage of his father's peril to persuade him to give up the orchard land; nursing this as a grievance, he seized it back and would not give it over. [Hui]yi held onto [Fan] Tai's testamentary letter, and a tangled dispute arose, becoming manifest to public sight and hearing. [Hui]yi then moved to Wuyi, living together with Huirui. In the twenty-first year of the Yuanjia era of the Song, he died at Wuyi Temple, at the age of seventy-three.