高僧傳 10.47

10.47

釋慧安，未詳何許人。少經被虜，屬荊州人為奴，執役懃緊，主甚愛之。年十八，聽出家，止江陵琵琶寺。風貌庸率，頗共輕之。時為沙彌，眾僧列坐，輒使行水。安恒執空瓶從上至下，水常不竭。時咸以異焉。及受具戒，稍顯靈迹。嘗月晦夕共同學慧濟上堂布薩，堂戶未開，安乃綰濟指從壁隙而入，出亦如之。濟甚駭懼，不敢發言。後乃與濟共坐塔下，便語濟云：「吾當遠行，今與君別。」頃之，便見天人伎樂香花，布滿空中。濟唯驚懼，竟不得語。安又謂曰：「吾前後事迹，慎勿妄說，說必有咎。唯西南有一白衣，是新發意菩薩，可具為說之。」於是辭去，便附商人入湘、川。中路患痢極篤，謂船主曰：「貧道命必應盡，但出置岸邊，不須器木。氣絕之後，即施蟲鳥。」商人依其言，出臥岸側。夜見火炎從身而出，商人怪懼，就往觀之，已氣絕矣。商人行至湘東，見安亦已先至，俄又不知所之。

Shi Hui'an—it is not known where he came from. In his youth he was captured and enslaved to a man of Jingzhou; he performed his corvée diligently and attentively, and his master loved him dearly. At the age of eighteen, he was permitted to renounce the household and resided at Pipa Temple in Jiangling. His appearance was coarse and ordinary, and people rather looked down on him. When he was a novice, as the monks were seated in rows, he was regularly made to serve water. An always held an empty jar from top to bottom, yet the water never ran out. The people at the time all thought it miraculous. When he received the full precepts, he gradually displayed spiritual signs. Once, on the evening of the end of the month, he went up to the hall for the upoṣadha together with his fellow-student Huiji. The hall door was not yet open, so An took Ji's finger and entered through a crack in the wall, and they exited in the same manner. Ji was exceedingly terrified and dared not speak. Later, he sat with Ji beneath a pagoda and said to Ji: 'I shall journey far, and now take my leave of you.' Shortly thereafter, heavenly beings, instrumental music, and fragrant flowers were seen filling the sky. Ji could only be astonished and terrified, and was unable to speak at all. An also said to him: 'Take care never to speak rashly of my previous deeds and traces; speaking of them will surely bring blame. Only in the southwest there is a white-robed layman, a newly resolved bodhisattva; you may tell it all to him.' Thereupon he took his leave, and accompanied a merchant into the Xiang and Chuan regions. Midway he fell gravely ill with dysentery and said to the boatmaster: 'My life must surely come to an end; just carry me out and place me on the riverbank, with no need for a coffin. After my breath ceases, give me at once as dāna to insects and birds.' The merchant followed his words, carrying him out to lie by the bank. At night, flames were seen emerging from his body. The merchant, startled and frightened, went to observe him, and his breath had already ceased. When the merchant traveled as far as Xiangdong, he saw that An had already arrived before him, and soon after, it was unknown where he went.