宋高僧傳 29.29

29.29

釋進平，姓吳氏，京兆人也。早出家于永安山明福院，風表端雅。諸經大論，皆所研尋。銷文鍊注，令人樂聞。末思禪觀，於洛下遇荷澤會師了悟，且曰：「甚矣，不自外知者，所知難乎哉！」後至唐州遂居西隱山。刺史鄭文簡請入城，闡揚宗旨。示滅年八十一，大曆十四年三月入塔。

Shi Jinping, surnamed Wu, was a native of the Capital Region. He left household life early at Mingfu Cloister on Mount Yong’an; his demeanor was dignified and refined. He investigated all the sūtras and great treatises. Melting down the texts and smelting the commentaries, he made people delight in listening to him. Later he turned his thoughts to chan contemplation, and in Luoyang he met Master [Shen]hui of Heze and attained awakening, remarking: “Extravagant indeed! For those who do not understand it from within, how difficult what is known is!” Later he went to Tangzhou and lived on Mount Xiyin. Prefect Zheng Wenjian invited him to enter the city and propagate the fundamental tenets. At his manifestation of cessation he was eighty-one years old, and was placed in a stūpa in the third month of the fourteenth year of Dali.