高僧傳 12.5

12.5

群庵舍與盂隔一小㵎，常以一木為梁，由之汲水。後時忽有一折翅鴨，舒翼當梁，頭就唼群。群欲舉錫杖撥之，恐畏傷損，因此迴還，絕水不飲，數日而終，春秋一百四十矣。臨終向人說，年少時，經折一鴨翅，驗此以為現報。

Sengqun's thatched hut was separated from the basin by a small ravine, and he always used a single log as a bridge to fetch water across it. Later, a duck with a broken wing suddenly appeared, spreading its wings across the bridge, pecking at Sengqun with its head. Sengqun wanted to lift his pewter staff to nudge it away, but fearing he might injure it, he turned back and refrained from drinking water. After several days he passed away, at the age of one hundred and forty. As he was dying, he told people that in his youth he had once broken a duck's wing, and he took this event to be its immediate karmic retribution.