高僧傳 4.30

4.30

既而收迹剡山，畢命林澤。人嘗有遺遁馬者，遁愛而養之，時或有譏之者，遁曰：「愛其神駿，聊復畜耳。」後有餉鶴者，遁謂鶴曰：「爾冲天之物，寧為耳目之翫乎？」遂放之。遁幼時，嘗與師共論物類，謂鷄卵生用，未足為殺，師不能屈。師尋亡，忽見形，投卵於地，㲉破鶵行，頃之俱滅，遁乃感悟，由是蔬食終身。

Thereafter he withdrew his traces to the mountains of Shan, ending his days among the forests and marshes. Someone once gave Dun a horse; Dun loved and kept it. When someone ridiculed him at the time, Dun said: 'I love its spirited excellence, and merely keep it for a while.' Later someone presented him with a crane; Dun said to the crane: 'You are a creature that soars to heaven; why should you serve as a plaything for eyes and ears?' He then released it. When Dun was young, he once debated about living creatures with his master, saying that using raw chicken eggs was not yet considered killing; his master could not refute him. Soon after, his master died, and suddenly manifested his form: he cast an egg onto the ground, the shell broke, and a chick walked out, and a moment later both vanished. Dun was deeply moved to awakening, and from then on ate vegetarian food for the rest of his life.