續高僧傳 20.28

20.28

釋世瑜。姓陳氏。住始州。父母早亡。庸作取濟。身形偉壯。長八尺三寸。希向佛理無由自達。大業十二年。往綿州震響寺倫法師所出家。一食頭陀勤苦相續。又往利州入籍住寺。後入益州綿竹縣響應山。獨住多年。四猿供給山果等食。有信士母家生者。負糧來送驚訝深山。常燒熏陸沈水香等。既還山半路見兩人形甚青色狀貌希世。負蓮華蔗芋而上。云我供給禪師去也。然其山居三年之中。食米一石七斗。六時行道以猿鳴為候。初惟一泉後有三泉又出流下。貞觀元年。夢有四龍來入心眼。既覺大悟三論宗旨。遂往靈睿法師講下。所聞詞理宛若舊尋。即而覆述。便往綿州住大施寺。至十九年四月八日往崇樂寺。言話欲遊方去。或有喻曰。只此寺者是諸方也。因還大施本房。香氣滿室。坐處之地涌三金錢。合眾尋香從瑜房而出。乃見加坐手尚執鑪。刺史劉德威慶所未聞。作龕坐之。三年不倒。春秋六十三矣。

Shi Shiyu, whose lay surname was Chen, resided in Shizhou. His parents died early, and he took up hired labor to support himself. His physical stature was magnificent and stalwart, eight feet and three inches tall. Yearning for the Buddhist principle, he had no way to attain it on his own. In the twelfth year of Daye, he went to Dharmabhāṇaka Lun at Zhenxiang Monastery in Mianzhou and went forth from household life. Practicing the dhūta of eating a single meal, his diligence and hardship continued uninterrupted. He then went to Lizhou to register and reside in a monastery. Later he entered Mount Xiangying in Mianzhu County, Yizhou, where he lived alone for many years. Four apes supplied him with mountain fruits and other foods. There was a faithful layman, born in his mother's family, who carried grain to deliver to him; astonished by the deep mountain, he found that Shiyu was constantly burning frankincense, aloeswood, and other incenses. Having descended halfway down the mountain, he saw two persons of exceedingly bluish complexion and rare appearance, carrying lotus flowers, sugarcanes, and taro upward, saying, "We are going to provide for the dhyāna master." During his three years of mountain dwelling, Shiyu consumed one shi and seven dou of rice. He performed the circumambulation at the six times of the day, using the cries of apes as his time markers. At first there was only one spring; later, three more springs gushed forth and flowed down. In the first year of Zhenguan, he dreamed that four dragons came and entered his mind and eyes; upon waking, he was greatly awakened to the cardinal tenet of the Three Treatises. He then went to the lectures of Dharmabhāṇaka Lingrui; the words and principles he heard were as though he had studied them of old, and he immediately expounded them in return. He then went to Mianzhou to reside at Dashi Monastery. On the eighth day of the fourth month in the nineteenth year, he went to Chongle Monastery and spoke of wishing to travel afar. Someone gave an analogy, saying, "Only this monastery is all directions." He therefore returned to his original room at Dashi; fragrance filled the room, and at the ground where he sat, three gold coins welled up. The entire assembly traced the scent, which came out from Shiyu's room, and saw him sitting in full lotus posture, his hand still holding a censer. The Prefect Liu Dewei rejoiced at what he had never heard of before, and constructed a niche to seat him; for three years he did not fall over. His age was sixty-three.