南嶽總勝集 2.156

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在石廩峯南去廟登山一十五里。齊永興初建。陳真人諱惠度。穎川人也。初居茅山。採靈異草。著貨之飲酒不食僅數年。南遊挑兩笈盡是金石之類。至南岳。選其幽勝。乃告天而盟鍊丹。深夜破屋所擾。三揭丹鑪。運石搉壓。唯冥心蟠石上誦黃庭經。佩五岳真形圖。其志愈恪。陰有感格。道力潛扶。獲擒魑魅。妖氣漸散。其鬼戰慄悲號。真人復令竪石誓免戮。鬼形遠逐地界。後丹成。光氣滿山明徹遠近。後服之。以永明三年五月十三日冲天。重和元年。徽宗皇帝賜號冲虛元妙真人。今觀基頂有丹臺．鬼栽石．雷泓風穴．誦經壇．丹泉。近代有僧。於觀基創寺號光明。不久復廢　本朝乾道中。有道士鄧時永道人黃守正二人。發心開山。伐木芟茅。募化賢善之士。新創殿宇。祈雨禳災並有感格。野人菴居。重洽道化。

South of Shilin Peak, fifteen li ascending the mountain from the Temple. It was first built in the Yongxing era of the Qi. Realized Man Chen's taboo name was Huidu; he was a man of Yingchuan. At first he resided on Mount Mao, gathering wondrous herbs, buying and trading them, drinking wine and fasting from grain for several years. Wandering south, he carried two bamboo hampers entirely filled with ores and stones. Arriving at Nanyue, he chose its secluded beauty, swore an oath to Heaven, and refined the elixir. In the deep of night, he was harassed in the broken hut: three times the elixir furnace was overturned, and stones were hurled to crush him. He merely settled his mind on a coiled rock, reciting the *Yellow Court Scripture* and wearing the *Chart of the True Form of the Five Sacred Peaks*. His resolve grew ever more reverent; in secret there was a spiritual resonance, and the power of the Dao silently aided him, enabling him to seize the sprites and spirits. The demonic qi gradually dispersed; trembling with fear, the ghosts wailed mournfully. The Realized Man ordered them to erect stones and pledge an oath in order to escape slaughter; their ghostly forms were banished far beyond the local borders. Later, the elixir was perfected; its radiant vapors filled the mountain, illuminating near and far. Later, he ingested it and soared into the sky on the thirteenth day of the fifth month of the third year of the Yongming era. In the first year of the Chonghe era, Emperor Huizong bestowed upon him the title of Realized Man Chongxu Yuanmiao. Today on the site of the abbey are the Elixir Terrace, the Ghost-Planted Stones, the Thunder Deep and Wind Cave, the Scripture-Recitation Altar, and the Elixir Spring. In recent times a monk founded a monastery on the site of the abbey named Guangming, which soon fell into ruin again. During the Qiandao era of our present dynasty, two practitioners, the Daoist master Deng Shiyong and the Daoist Huang Shouzheng, generated the resolve to clear the mountain; they felled timber, cleared weeds, and solicited donations from virtuous and worthy persons to newly erect hall buildings. Prayers for rain and averting calamities both met with efficacious response. Rustic recluses live in hermitages here, once again according with the transformative influence of the Dao.