宋高僧傳 19.4

19.4

釋破竈墮者，不知何許人也。天后之世，參事嵩嶽安禪師——號老安是歟——，通徹禪法，逍遙弗羈，恒理求而不見其前，別塗取而莫趨其後。甞遇巫氏能與人醮竈祓禳，若漢武之世李少君，以祠竈可以致物同也。凡其解奏之時，往往見鬼物形兆，閭里迭畏，傳于眾多，殺少牢以祭之者交午。重其主竈，乃旛蓋擁之，祕而罕覩焉，揚子所謂「靈場之威宜夜矣乎」？時墮詣之，始勸巫者，終為神說法已，告云：「我聞師教，決定生天。」乃現其形，禮辭且曰：「蒙師提耳，獲益彌深，得生殊勝天。」言訖而隱，其竈即神祠也，隨而瓦解，自然破落，非人力也。遐邇驚駭，此師素不稱名，由此全取他名，號破竈墮也。

Shi Pozaoduo's place of origin is unknown. In the era of the Heavenly Empress, he attended upon Chan Master An of Mount Song—known as Lao'an. Thoroughly penetrating the methods of Chan, he was free and unfettered; seeking him by ordinary principles, one could not see what came before him, and taking another path, none could pursue what came after him. He once met a shaman who could perform sacrifices to the stove and exorcise calamities for people, similar to Li Shaojun in the time of Emperor Wu of Han, who held that sacrificing to the stove could summon material wealth. Whenever he performed his petitions, forms and omens of ghosts were often seen; the neighborhoods feared them by turns, word spread among the multitude, and those who slaughtered lesser victims to sacrifice to it crossed paths continually. Esteeming the Lord of the Stove, they shielded it with banners and canopies, keeping it secret and rarely seen—was this not what Yangzi meant by "the awe of a spiritual precinct is suited to the night"? At that time Duo visited it; first he admonished the shaman, and finally preached the Dharma for the spirit, who announced: "Having heard the Master's teaching, I will definitely be born in heaven." Thereupon it revealed its form, bowed to take leave, and said: "Receiving the Master's earnest instruction, I have obtained exceedingly deep benefit and attained birth in an exquisite heaven." Having spoken, it vanished; the stove, which was the shrine of the spirit, immediately fell apart tile by tile and naturally collapsed, not through human effort. Far and near were shocked and astonished. This master ordinarily did not state his name; from this event he took another moniker entirely, being called Pozaoduo ('Broken-Stove Duo').