樂邦遺稿 2.99

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《夷堅志》曰「僧善旻者，長沙人也，住持洪州觀音院，已而退居光孝之西堂。紹興二十三年秋得病，鄱陽董述為司戶，攝新建尉，居寺之側。憐其病，日具粥餌供之。旻食之，必再三致謝。光孝主僧祖璿語之曰：『汝為方外人，而受俗人供養，倦倦有欲報之意。以某觀之，他日必為董氏子矣。』旻雖感其言，終不能自免。時董妻注氏方娠，昱病益篤，以十月一日巳時死。寺中方撞鐘誦佛，外人有入者云：『司戶妻娩身得女子矣。』時刻恰同，人頗信之矣。」

The Yijian zhi states: 'The monk Shanmin was a native of Changsha. He was the abbot of Guanyin Cloister in Hongzhou, and afterward retired to reside in the Western Hall of Guangxiao. In the autumn of the twenty-third year of the Shaoxing era, he fell ill. Dong Shu of Poyang, who was a Revenue Officer acting as the commandant of Xinjian, resided beside the temple. Pitying his illness, he daily prepared rice gruel and food to offer him. Whenever Min ate it, he would invariably express his gratitude again and again. Zuxuan, the abbot of Guangxiao, said to him: "You are a person beyond the mundane world, yet you receive offerings from a worldly man and are unweariedly intent on repaying him. As I see it, in another day you will surely become a child of the Dong family." Although Min was moved by his words, in the end he could not avoid it. At that time, Dong's wife, lady Zhu, was pregnant. Min's illness became increasingly grave, and he died on the first day of the tenth month at the hour of the serpent (9–11 a.m.). Just as the temple was striking the bell and reciting the Buddha's name, someone came in from outside and said: "The Revenue Officer's wife has given birth to a daughter." The time was exactly the same, and people quite believed it.'