大明高僧傳 7.22

7.22

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'.