南嶽總勝集 3.12

3.12

天師。天師傳虛應。既承道要。涉歷雲水。為友善者。惟蔣舍洪時呂渭陽憑皆使湖南。嘗就訪高論。潭州旱祈雨。久之不獲。召虛應蓬髮弊衣。至郡無言。雨自下。又嘗久雨不止。郡守建壇于衡嶽觀。默然岸幘而坐。洎昇壇即霽。元和中。東入天台不復出。憲宗時。詔不起。有歐陽平者。道學亦高。常師事之。一日夢。三神人各持金鑪。自天而降。若有所召。密謂人曰。二先生不久去矣。我必繼之。未幾虛應果羽化。蔣亦繼往。門弟達者。棲瑤憑惟良香林陳寡言方瀛徐靈府三人。盡相聯而尸解。

Celestial Master; the Celestial Master transmitted [them] to Xuying. Having received the essential teachings of the Dao, he wandered far and wide among the clouds and waters. Among his close friends, only Jiang She, Hong Shi, Lü Wei, and Yang Ping, who all served as envoys to Hunan, would often visit him to engage in lofty discussions. Once, when Tanzhou suffered a drought, they prayed for rain but did not obtain it for a long time. They summoned Xuying, who arrived at the commandery with disheveled hair and tattered clothes without uttering a word, and rain fell of its own accord. On another occasion, rain poured incessantly for a long time; the commandery governor erected an altar at the Hengyue Abbey, and [Xuying] sat silently with his headcloth tilted up; as soon as he mounted the altar, the skies cleared. During the Yuanhe era, he traveled east into Tiantai and never came out again. During the reign of Emperor Xianzong, he was summoned by imperial decree but did not rise [to accept]. There was one Ouyang Ping, whose learning in the Dao was also profound, and who always served him as a master. One day [Ouyang] dreamt that three divine beings, each holding a golden censer, descended from the heavens as if summoning someone. He secretly told others, "The two masters will not be here much longer. I must surely follow them." Before long, Xuying indeed achieved feather-transformation (ascended as an immortal), and Jiang also passed away after him. Among his accomplished disciples, the three men—Qiyao Ping Weiliang, Xianglin Chen Guayan, and Fangying Xu Lingfu—all achieved release by corpse in succession.