大明高僧傳 7.22

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釋法因姑蘇嵎山朱氏子也。少汩塵俗無意出纏。年二十四始披緇服。不終五夏遽爾遊方。謁慧日雅禪師於東林。慧日舉靈雲見桃花悟道因緣問之。擬對。日曰。不是不是。忽有所契。呈偈曰。巖上桃花開。花從何處來。靈雲纔一見。回首舞三臺。慧日戒曰。子雖見已入微。更假著鞭當明大法。於是居廬阜三十年。不與世接。四方仰之學者川騖蟻屯就其罏鞴。因亦不辭煅煉隨機說法。宋建炎末盜起江左。乃順流東歸。覺海緇白踵門問道。甞謂眾曰。汝等當飽持定力。弗憂晨炊干求外務也。晚年放浪自若。稱曰五松散人。

Shi Fayin was a son of the Zhu family of Mount Yu in Gusu. When young, he was submerged in the dust and worldly affairs, with no thought of breaking through the entanglements. Only at the age of twenty-four did he don monastic robes. Before completing five summer retreats, he promptly went wandering. He visited Chan Master Huiri Ya at Donglin. Huiri brought up the story of Lingyun seeing peach blossoms and attaining awakening, and questioned him about it. When he was about to answer, Huiri said, 'Not it, not it.' Suddenly he had an accord. He presented a verse: 'On the crag, peach blossoms bloom; / From where have the flowers come? / No sooner did Lingyun see them / Than he turned his head and danced the Santai!' Huiri admonished him, saying, 'Though your vision has entered into the subtle, you must apply the whip further and illuminate the Great Dharma.' Thereupon he lived on Mount Lu for thirty years without making contact with the world. The four quarters looked up to him; students rushed like rivers and gathered like ants to approach his furnace and bellows. Yin likewise did not refuse forging them, expounding the Dharma according to their capacities. Toward the end of the Jianyan era of the Song, bandits arose east of the Yangtze, so he drifted downstream and returned east. Monastics and laymen of Juehai came to his gate in succession to inquire about the Way. He once said to the assembly: 'You should fully uphold the power of samādhi; do not worry about the morning meal and pursue external affairs.' In his later years, he was unrestrained and at ease, calling himself the 'Idle Man of the Five Pines'.