續高僧傳 25.133

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釋慧耀。姓岐。襄陽人。少沈密。訥言敏行。人共重之。受具後歷遊訪道。至鄭川命師所。又往衡岳思師所。咸伏膺請益觀用清明。思公於眾曰。公於實相觀善有玄趣。居山數年。值思長往。欲絕迹武當以希素尚。行至巴丘曰。此地禪律罕聞。可隨行化。有江陵導因道懿法師。聞志焉相携。西上居導因寺。積十四年不出戶庭惟味禪靜。及智顗返鄉。歎為故鄉不乏賢友足為模楷遺法也。因是道俗稍來禮謁。耀杜門密行不偶時俗。以仁壽二年。暮告人曰。吾不願惱此眾僧。欲往內華寺可以閑放。眾固留不許。至三年二月有疾。見思命二師來迎。至三月六日跏坐直身而卒。年七十九。遂葬於內華。未終前。寺中三十餘人。咸夢寶剎傾倒。及明異口同音而說之。昔日導因。今天皇寺是也。見有栢殿五間兩廈。梁右軍將軍張僧瑤。自筆圖畫。殿其工正北盧舍那相好威嚴。光明時發。殿前五級亦放光明。祥徵休咎故不備述。由此奇感聊附此焉。

Shi Huiyao, surnamed Qi, was a native of Xiangyang. From his youth he was profound and reserved, slow in speech but quick in action, and people mutually esteemed him. After receiving full ordination, he travelled about seeking the Way, arriving at the place of Master Ming of Zhengchuan, and also went to the place of Master Si of Mount Heng. To both he submitted with devotion and requested instruction, his contemplative practice becoming clear and bright. Master Si said to the assembly: 'In the contemplation of true reality, this gentleman possesses profound inclination.' He resided in the mountains for several years until Si passed away. Wishing to obliterate his traces at Wudang to realize his plain aspiration, he travelled as far as Baqiu, where he said: 'In this place, dhyāna and vinaya are rarely heard; one may follow conditions to transform others.' There was Dharma Master Daoyi of Daoyin Monastery in Jiangling; hearing of his aspiration, they went hand in hand westward, residing at Daoyin Monastery. For a cumulative fourteen years he did not step outside the courtyard, savoring only dhyāna and tranquility. When Zhiyi returned to his hometown, he sighed in praise, saying that the old hometown did not lack virtuous friends sufficient to serve as models for bequeathing the Dharma. Because of this, clergy and laity gradually came to pay homage. Yao shut his door and cultivated secretly, not associating with the worldly folk of the time. In the second year of the Renshou era, in the evening, he told people: 'I do not wish to disturb this assembly of monks; I wish to go to Neihua Monastery where I may be at leisure.' The assembly adamantly detained him and would not permit it. In the second month of the third year, he fell ill and saw the two masters Si and Ming coming to welcome him. On the sixth day of the third month, he sat cross-legged with an upright posture and passed away at the age of seventy-nine. He was thereupon buried at Neihua. Before his demise, over thirty people in the monastery all dreamed that the precious staff had toppled; when morning came, they recounted it with different mouths but a single voice. The former Daoyin Monastery is today's Tianhuang Monastery. Currently it has a five-bay cypress hall with two side pavilions. The Liang General of the Right Army, Zhang Sengyao, personally painted it with his own brush. Directly to the north of the hall, Rocana's marks and features are solemn and majestic, frequently emitting radiant light. The five tiers in front of the hall also emit light. Auspicious omens and indications of good or ill fortune are therefore not fully recounted. On account of these extraordinary resonances, this record is briefly appended here.