三夢六祖來召

甲戌九十五歲。春戒邀應慈法師。講梵網經。二月一夕於趺坐時。若夢非夢。見六祖大師至。曰「時至矣汝當回去。」翌日語弟子觀本。慰之。四月間一夕。又三夢六祖催去。公覺甚異。未幾有粵主席李漢魂。派吳鐘石等持書請。允之。

宣化偈曰：

六祖三夢催速回。百官萬民迎法驅。
寶林道場重光日。苦行老僧挑土時。

Seeing the Sixth Patriarch arrive three times to summon him

in 1934, the Master, now ninety-five, invited Dharma Master Ying Tz'u to explain the Brahmajala (Brahma Net) Sutra during the spring Precept period. One night, in the second lunar month, while sitting cross-legged in meditation, as if in a dream and yet not at all in a dream, the Master saw the Sixth Patriarch arrive and tell him, "The time has come for you to return." The following day, the Master told his disciple Kuan Pen about this vision. The latter consoled him. One evening, in the fourth lunar month, he again on three occasions saw the Sixth Patriarch who urged him to go. The Master thought this event quite strange. Shortly thereafter, General Li Han Yun of Canton sent Wu Chung Shih arid others with an invitation for the Master, which the Master accepted.

The gatha says:
Appearing thrice, the Venerable Sixth Patriarch urged him to quickly go back.
A hundred officials and ten thousand citizens welcomed the embodied Dharma.
The bodhimanda at Jeweled Grove again shone like the sun,
Because it was time for the old ascetic monk to carry earth once more.