Caodong master of the Shouchang line, of the Hu family of Nancheng in Jianchang. In his own account of conduct, dictated at Longhu monastery in Xincheng, he says: 'this mountain monk is named Yuanmi, styled Jianru, and also Quran; a son of the Hu family of Nancheng in Jianchang. My father was named Fu, my mother of the Ning clan.' He was born on the third day of the twelfth month of 1579. Taken as a boy by his father to Baofang, he met the monk Wuming Huijing and was won over by him; he returned alone the next morning to ask for instruction, and Huijing gave him a verse and told him to work at it day and night. At twenty-one he gave up meat and wine and asked to be tonsured, but Huijing refused while his parents lived, so he went to Fuzhou and took the robe from the dharma master Kai of Jinshan. He returned to Baofang as fire-keeper. Huijing, looking into the stove, said: 'if you want the rice cooked, you must turn your body in the flames and see the wall.' He took up the phrase, and after seven or eight days, standing behind the hall at the third watch, body and mind fell still. He died in 1649, aged seventy-one.
References: DILA Authority A015916 | CBETA 語錄 X72n1434
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