廣弘明集 9.24

9.24

The Wenshi zhuan says: 'Laozi descended in the first year of Shanghuang to become the preceptor of Zhou. In the first year of Wuji, riding a thin-board carriage drawn by a green ox, he crossed the pass, expounding the five-thousand-word text for Yin Xi, saying: "I wander between Heaven and Earth; you have not yet attained the Way and cannot follow me. You must recite the five-thousand-word text ten thousand times; your ears will penetrate all hearing, your eyes will penetrate all sight, your body will be able to fly, and you will have the six superknowledges penetrating the four directions. Meet me in Chengdu." Xi followed his words and attained this. Having sought and met him, they went to Mount Dandate in Jibin, and even when the king burned and submerged them with fire and water, Laozi sat in a lotus flower reciting scriptures as before. The king begged for mercy and repented. Laozi advanced Yin Xi as his master and told the king: "My master is called Buddha; the Buddha’s deeds are unsurpassed." The King of the Way followed and received conversion: men and women shaved their hair and did not take wives. This is the unsurpassed Dao receiving the Buddha’s divine power; he entrusted Yin Xi to be the Buddha of the country of Jibin, styled Bright Light, the Youthful Scholar (Rutong).'