續高僧傳 25.115

25.115

益州多寶寺猷禪師者。𣕾道人。姓楊氏。勤讀誦四十餘年。日夕不捨。房後院壁圖九想變。露置繩床。椶被覆上。晝依僧例。夜則寢中。亘一日方出一食。如是漸增七日方食。僧以為常。弗之怪也。如此又經二十餘年。忽經一月而不出者不畜侍人。僉議不出秖是入定。不勞看之。忽一夜風雨盛。畫壁廊倒。旦共往視。試撥椶被。一無所見。唯繩床坐褥存焉。

Dhyāna Master You of Daobao Monastery in Yizhou was a monk from Dian, surnamed Yang. For over forty years he diligently engaged in cantillation and recitation, without pausing day or night. On the wall of the courtyard behind his room, he painted a tableau of the nine contemplations of the foul. In the open he placed a rope couch, covered above with a palm-fiber quilt. During the day he followed the monastic assembly's routine; at night he slept on it. At first, he would emerge only once every full day to eat a meal; gradually this increased until he ate only once every seven days. The monks considered this ordinary and did not find it strange. Over twenty years passed in this manner. Suddenly, a month elapsed without his emerging, and as he kept no attendants, everyone deliberated and said that his not coming out was simply because he had entered samādhi, so they need not trouble themselves to look. Suddenly, one night of intense wind and rain, the corridor with the painted wall collapsed. In the morning, they went together to look; cautiously lifting the palm-fiber quilt, they saw nothing at all—only the rope couch and the sitting cushion remained.