神僧傳 9.21

9.21

釋惟靖。吳門人也。年三十許入國寧寺巡僧房。唱曰。要人出家請留。下至經藏院。見二眾闍黎大德慧政。便跪拜伸誠願容執侍。政公允納與翦飾。於天台受具。嘗侵星赴禪林寺晨粥。而多虎豹隨到寺門。虎踞地若伺候。靖出復隨。遲明巨跡極多。靖恐人知以鋤滅虎跡。俄患背疽困睡。有鴆鳥糞于瘡所。非久全愈。又虞氷雪備粳粒半斗。每日以銚合菜煮食。置粳於地窖中。過期用米常滿不耗。靖乃築之而云。吾被此物知非理也。卒時年七十餘。

Śramaṇa Weijing was a man of Wumen. Around the age of thirty he entered Guoning Monastery, making the rounds of the monks' quarters and calling out: "If anyone wants someone to renounce household life, please keep me!" Going down to the Canon Hall, he saw Huizheng, an ācārya and great monk of the two assemblies. He bowed, laid bare his sincerity, and asked to be allowed to serve him. Master Zheng granted his request and shaved his head. He took full ordination on Mount Tiantai. He once walked under the fading stars to attend the morning congee at Zhanlin Monastery, and many tigers and leopards followed him to the temple gate. The tigers squatted on the ground as if waiting; when Jing came out, they followed him again. At daybreak, huge tracks were abundant. Jing, fearing people would find out, erased the tiger tracks with a hoe. Soon after, he suffered from a back ulcer and was asleep in exhaustion when a poison-bird dropped dung onto the sore; before long it was completely healed. Also, anticipating snow and ice, he prepared half a dou of non-glutinous rice. Every day he boiled and ate it in a small pan together with vegetables, keeping the rice in an earthen cellar. Long past the expected period, the rice used remained full and never diminished. Jing then struck it down, saying: "For me to be favored by this thing is contrary to principle." When he died, he was over seventy years old.