神僧傳 9.45

9.45

釋智暉。咸秦人。姓高氏。童稚時至精舍輒留止如家。圭峯溫禪師見而異之為剃髮。年二十受滿足戒。師事高安白水本仁禪師十年。而還洛京。愛中灘佳山水創屋以居。號溫室院。日以施水給藥為事。人莫能淺深之。梁開平五年忽欲造圭峯山行。翛然深往坐嵒石間如常寢處。顧見磨衲數珠銅𬎩椶笠。藏石壁間。觸之即壞。斂目良久曰。此吾前身道具也。因就其處建寺以酬夙心。方薙草有祥雲出眾峯間。遂名曰重雲。虎豹引去。有龍湫險惡不可犯。暉督役夷塞之以為路。龍以移他處。但見雲雷隨之。後唐明宗聞而佳之。賜額曰長興。住持四十餘年。節度使王彥超微時。甞從暉游欲為沙門。暉熟視曰。汝世緣深當為我家垣牆。彥超後果鎮永興申弟子之禮。周顯德三年夏詣永興。與彥超別囑以護法。彥超泣曰。公遂忍棄弟子乎。暉笑曰。借千年亦一別耳。七月二十四日書偈一首。乃加趺而化。閱世八十有四。坐六十有四夏。初暉居中灘。有病比丘為眾惡棄之。比丘哀曰。我以宿業白癩。師能為我洗摩。暉為之無難色。俄有神光異香。方訝之。忽失所在歸視瘡痂亦皆異香也。

Śramaṇa Zhihui was a man of Xianqin whose secular surname was Gao. When he was a young child, whenever he went to a vihāra he would stay as if it were his home. Chan Master Wen of Guifeng saw him, marveled at him, and shaved his head. At the age of twenty, he received the full precepts. He served Chan Master Benren of Baishui in Gao'an for ten years, and then returned to the Western Capital. Delighting in the fine mountains and waters of Zhongtan, he built a dwelling to reside in, calling it the Warm Room Cloister. He made it his daily practice to give water and provide medicine. No one could fathom his depth. In the fifth year of the Kaiping reign era of the Liang dynasty, he suddenly wished to go to Mount Guifeng. Light and carefree, he ventured deep into the mountains and sat among the crags and boulders as if in his ordinary sleeping quarters. Looking around, he saw a patched robe, recitation beads, a bronze vessel, and a palm-bark hat hidden among the stone cliffs; when touched, they immediately crumbled. Closing his eyes for a long while, he said, "These are the implements of my former life." Thereupon he founded a monastery on that site to fulfill his former aspiration. Just as the grass was being cleared, auspicious clouds emerged from among the peaks; hence it was named Chongyun. Tigers and leopards retreated and left. There was a dragon pool so treacherous that none dared approach it. Zhihui directed the laborers to level and fill it to make a road. The dragon thus moved elsewhere; one saw only clouds and thunder following it. Later, Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang heard of this and praised it, bestowing the placard reading "Changxing." He served as abbot for more than forty years. When Military Commissioner Wang Yanchao was still obscure, he once traveled with Zhihui and wished to become a śramaṇa. Zhihui gazed intently at him and said, "Your secular karmic connections are deep; you shall serve as the protective wall for our house." Yanchao later indeed garrisoned Yongxing and showed him the etiquette of a disciple. In the summer of the third year of the Xiande reign era of the Zhou dynasty, Zhihui went to Yongxing to take leave of Yanchao and entrusted him with the protection of the Dharma. Yanchao wept and said, "Can you truly bear to abandon your disciple, sir?" Zhihui smiled and said, "Even if we were granted a thousand years, it would still end in parting." On the twenty-fourth day of the seventh month, he wrote a gāthā, then sat cross-legged and passed away. He lived for eighty-four years and saw sixty-four rains retreats. Earlier, when Zhihui resided at Zhongtan, there was a sick bhikṣu whom the assembly despised and abandoned. The bhikṣu lamented, "Because of past karma, I suffer from white leprosy. Could you, Master, wash and rub me?" Zhihui did so without any reluctance on his face. Suddenly there was a divine light and a marvelous fragrance. Just as he marveled at it, [the sick monk] was suddenly gone. Returning to look at the scabs of the sores, they too all possessed a marvelous fragrance.