法苑珠林 35.70

35.70

宋京師南㵎寺。有釋道冏。姓馬。扶風人。初出家為道懿弟子。懿病常遣冏等四人。至河南霍山採鍾乳。入穴數里跨木度水三人溺死。炬火又亡。冏判無濟理。冏素誦法華。唯憑誠此業。又存念觀音。有項見一光如熒光。追之不及。遂得出穴。於是進修禪業節行彌新。頻作數度普賢齋。並有瑞應。或見胡僧入坐。或見騎馬人至。並未敘暄涼。儵忽不見。後與同學人南游上京觀矚風化。夜乘氷度河。中道氷破三人沒死。冏又歸誠觀音。乃覺脚下如有一物臲卼復見赤光在前。乘光至岸。達都止南㵎寺。常以般舟為業。嘗中夜入禪忽見四人。御車至房呼令上乘。冏欻不自覺。已見身在郡後沈橋間。見一人在路坐胡床。侍者數百人。見冏驚起曰。坐禪人耳。彼人因語左右曰。向止令知處而已。何忽勞屈法師。於是禮拜執別。令人送冏。還寺扣門。良久方開。入寺見房猶閉。眾咸莫測其然。宋元嘉二十年。臨川康王義慶携往廣陵。終於彼也（右此一驗出梁高僧傳）。

At Nanjian Temple in the Song capital, there was Shi Daojiong, surnamed Ma, a man of Fufeng. When he first left the household life, he was a disciple of Daoyi. When Yi was ill, he often sent Daojiong and four others to Mount Huo in Henan to gather stalactites. Entering the cave several li, straddling wood to cross water, three men drowned. The torches were also lost. Jiong judged there was no way of deliverance. Jiong habitually recited the Lotus Sūtra; he relied solely on the sincerity of this practice, and also contemplated Guanyin. After a moment, he saw a light like a firefly; chasing it without catching up, he finally succeeded in exiting the cave. Thereupon he advanced in cultivating meditation practice, his moral conduct ever more renewed. He frequently performed the Samantabhadra fasting ritual several times, all having auspicious responses. He either saw a Central Asian monk enter and sit, or saw a man riding a horse arrive; neither exchanged greetings before abruptly disappearing. Later, together with a fellow student, he traveled south to the upper capital to observe the customs. Crossing the river by ice at night, midway the ice broke and three men sank and drowned. Jiong again placed sincere refuge in Guanyin; he then felt as if there were an unstable object beneath his feet, and again saw a red light ahead. Riding the light, he reached the shore. Arriving at the capital, he stayed at Nanjian Temple, constantly taking Pratyutpanna[-samādhi] as his practice. Once, entering meditation in the middle of the night, he suddenly saw four men driving a chariot to his room, calling for him to board. Jiong unconsciously and suddenly saw himself at the Shen Bridge behind the commandery. He saw a man sitting on a folding chair on the road, with several hundred attendants. Seeing Jiong, he arose in surprise and said: 'He is merely a man of meditation!' The man then said to his attendants: 'Just now I merely ordered you to know his location; why did you abruptly trouble and summon the Dharma master?' Thereupon he bowed, took his leave, and had someone send Jiong back. Returning to the temple, he knocked on the gate; only after a long time did it open. Entering the temple, he saw his room was still locked. None of the assembly could fathom it. In the twentieth year of Yuanjia of the Song, Yiqing, King Kang of Linchuan, took him along to Guangling, where he died. (The one proof above comes from the Liang Biographies of Eminent Monks.)