佛祖歷代通載 9.81

9.81

（三十七）　荊山居士陸法和。少隱江陵清溪山。服勤沙門執弟子禮。及長出游。語音巴楚。容色異常。以操行絕等為梁湘東王所重。即以間散甚為諸公欽敬。初侯景始降。法和知其必叛。以語朱元英。元英不了其意。未久景圍京城。元英求策。和曰。取果宜待熟。景遣將任約擊湘東王。法和就乞軍禦之。對壘赤沙湖。賊因風縱火燒廬。法和以白羽揮風。風即返。約軍大潰。士卒求約不獲。法和曰。洲際有水剎。約在其下也。可往擒之。果得約。抱剎仰頭出鼻。法和捨之。謂王曰。他日當得力。約後果立効。法和所至江湖必立放生池。切戒殺生。湘東王即位。是為元帝。以法和為郢州刺史。始法和欲大舉定魏。帝不許。法和笑曰。吾甞不希釋梵天王坐處。豈窺人王位耶。但於空王佛所與王有因緣。如不能用則奈業何。帝敗歸齊。齊宣帝喜其來。封太尉賜甲第。法和乞為佛寺。身居偏室。日手持香爐行道體佛燒香凝坐預期死日。時至坐去。尸縮三尺許。題壁曰。十年天子為尚可。百日天子急如火。周年天子遞代坐。又曰二母生三天。兩天共五年。指婁太后也。人懼塗削之。終不能去。其神異如此。

(Thirty-seven) The upāsaka Lu Fahe of Jingshan had retired in his youth to Qingxi Mountain in Jiangling, serving the śramaṇas diligently and observing the etiquette of a disciple. When he grew up and traveled, his speech carried the accent of Ba and Chu, and his countenance was extraordinary. On account of his preeminent conduct, he was esteemed by the Prince of Xiangdong of Liang; with leisure and detachment, he was deeply revered by all the grandees. When Hou Jing first surrendered, Fahe knew he would certainly rebel, and told Zhu Yuanying, who did not comprehend his meaning. Not long after, Jing besieged the capital, and Yuanying sought a stratagem. Fahe said, 'To pick fruit, one must wait until it is ripe.' When Jing sent the general Ren Yue to attack the Prince of Xiangdong, Fahe asked for troops to resist him. Facing the enemy camp across Chisha Lake, the rebels set fire to the huts by taking advantage of the wind. Fahe waved a white feather against the wind, and the wind immediately reversed; Yue's army suffered a great rout. The soldiers searched for Yue but could not find him. Fahe said, 'At the edge of the sandbar is a water post; Yue is beneath it. Go and seize him.' They indeed captured Yue, who was clinging to the post with his head tilted upward and his nose exposed. Fahe spared him, saying to the Prince, 'In the future he will be of service.' Yue later indeed rendered loyal service. Wherever Fahe traveled along rivers and lakes, he would establish life-release ponds and strictly forbid the taking of life. When the Prince of Xiangdong ascended the throne, becoming Emperor Yuan, he appointed Fahe Regional Inspector of Yingzhou. Earlier, Fahe wished to launch a grand expedition to pacify the Wei, but the Emperor did not grant permission. Fahe smiled and said, 'I have never coveted the seat of the Devarājas Śakra or Brahmā; how could I covet the throne of a human king? It is only that I have karmic affinity with Your Majesty from the time of the Buddha King of Emptiness. If you cannot employ me, what can be done about karma?' When the Emperor was defeated, he went over to Qi. Emperor Xuan of Qi was delighted by his arrival, made him Grand Defender, and bestowed a mansion upon him. Fahe begged to convert it into a Buddhist monastery and took residence in a side chamber himself. Daily holding an incense burner, he practiced walking meditation, venerated the Buddha, burned incense, and sat in deep contemplation, foretelling the day of his death. When the time arrived, he passed away while sitting. His corpse shrank by about three feet. He inscribed on the wall: 'A ten-year Son of Heaven is barely acceptable; a hundred-day Son of Heaven is urgent as fire; one-year Sons of Heaven sit in succession.' He also wrote: 'Two mothers give birth to three Heavens; two Heavens share five years,' referring to Empress Dowager Lou. People were terrified and whitewashed and scraped it, but in the end they could not erase it. Such were his supernatural marvels.