宋高僧傳 23.30

23.30

釋道育，新羅國人也，本國姓氏未所詳練。自唐景福壬子歲來遊于天台，遲迴而挂錫於平田寺眾堂中。慈愛接物，然終不捨島夷言音。恒持一鉢受食，食訖，略經行而常坐，脇不著席。日中灑掃殿廊，料理常住；得殘羨之食——雖色惡氣變——，收貯于器，齋時自食。與僧供湢浴、煎茶，遇薪木中蠢蠢，乃置之遠地，護生偏切。所服皆大布納，其重難荷。每至夏首秋末，日昳，乃裸露胸背䏶腨，云飼蚊、蚋、虻、蛭雜色蟲，螫齧至於血流于地。如是行之四十餘載，未甞少廢。凡對晤賓客，止云「伊伊」二字，殊不通華語。然其會認人意，且無差脫。頂髮垂白，眉亦尨焉。身出紺赤色舍利——有如珠顆——，人或求之，隨意皆獲。至晉天福三年戊戌歲十月十日，終于僧堂中，揣其年八十餘耳。寺僧舁上山後焚之，灰中得舍利不可勝數。或有得巨骨者。後唐清泰二年，曾遊石梁，迴與育同宿堂內——時春煦，亦燒榾柮柴以自熏灼，口中嘮嘮，通夜不輟。或云凡供養羅漢大齋日，育則不食。人或見迎羅漢時問：「何不去殿內受供？」口云「伊伊去」。或云「飼蟲」，時見群虎嗅之，盤桓而去矣。

Śramaṇa Daoyu was a native of the kingdom of Silla; the surname of his home country is not known in detail. In the renzi year of the Jingfu era of the Tang, he came on a pilgrimage to Tiantai, and after lingering there, hung up his traveling staff in the assembly hall of Pingtian Temple. He engaged with people with compassion and love, yet never abandoned the speech of his island barbarians. He constantly carried a single bowl to receive food; having finished eating, he would do walking meditation briefly and then remain constantly seated, his ribs never touching the mat. During the day, he swept the halls and corridors and managed temple affairs; when he obtained leftover food—even if its color was bad and its odor putrid—he would store it in a vessel and eat it himself at the mealtime. He provided the monks with bathwater and boiled tea; whenever he encountered wriggling creatures in firewood, he would place them far away, guarding life with extreme care. The clothes he wore were all heavy patched robes of coarse cloth, burdensome to bear. Whenever early summer and late autumn arrived, once the sun passed its meridian, he would bare his chest, back, thighs, and calves, saying he was feeding mosquitoes, gnats, horseflies, leeches, and various colored bugs, their bites causing blood to flow to the ground. He practiced like this for over forty years, never neglecting it in the slightest. Whenever he met visitors, he said only the two words 'yiyi', not understanding Chinese at all. Yet he comprehended people's thoughts without the slightest error. The hair on his crown hung white, and his eyebrows were bushy and grizzled. His body produced dark-reddish śarīra—like pearl beads; if anyone sought them, they were obtained as wished. On the tenth day of the tenth month in the wuxu year, the third year of the Tianfu era of the Jin, he passed away in the monks' hall; his age was estimated at over eighty. The temple monks carried him up behind the mountain to cremate him, and from the ashes they obtained an innumerable quantity of śarīra. Some also obtained large bones. In the second year of Qingtai of the Later Tang, [someone] once traveled to Shiliang, and on returning lodged with Yu in the hall; it was warm spring, yet Yu still burned knotty firewood to smoke and heat himself, murmuring incessantly in his mouth through the whole night. Some said that on the great feast days offering food to the arhats, Yu would not eat. When someone saw him greeting the arhats, they asked, 'Why do you not go into the hall to receive offerings?' He said, 'Yiyi qu.' Others said that when he was 'feeding the bugs', packs of tigers were seen sniffing him and lingering before leaving.