釋門自鏡錄 2.80

2.80

雲頂山慈雲寺四方。歸輳供食者甚厚。寺主僧審言性貪鄙。欺隱本寺施財。飲酒食肉。畜養妻子。無所不為。僧眾稍孤潔者必遭凌辱。一旦疾篤。自言。空中繩懸一石臼。有鼠囓之。繩斷正中其心。大叫氣絕。久而復蘇。如此數十度方卒逾年。寺下村中牛生一犢。腹下分明有審言二字（儆誡錄）。

From all four quarters, people gathered at Ciyun Monastery on Mount Yunding, offering abundant provisions. The vihārasvāmin, the monk Shenyan, was greedy and mean by nature. He embezzled the donations of the monastery, drank wine, ate meat, kept a wife and children, and left nothing undone. Any monks who were aloof and pure were inevitably abused by him. One day he fell gravely ill and said: “In the air a stone mortar hangs by a rope, and a rat is gnawing at it. The rope snapped and struck me right in the heart!” He cried out loudly and stopped breathing, but revived after a long while. This happened several dozen times before he finally died. Over a year later, a cow in a village below the monastery gave birth to a calf, beneath whose belly the two characters “Shenyan” were clearly visible. (Records of Admonition and Warning)