高僧傳 6.39

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持後聞成都地沃民豐，志往傳化，兼欲觀矚峨嵋，振錫岷岫，乃以晉隆安三年辭遠入蜀。遠苦留，不止。遠歎曰：「人生愛聚，汝乃樂離，如何？」持亦悲曰：「若滯情愛聚者，本不應出家。今既割欲求道，正以西方為期耳。」於是兄弟收淚，憫默而別。

Huichi later heard that Chengdu had fertile land and prosperous people, and resolved to go there to propagate the teaching, and also wished to view Mount Emei and shake his monk's staff amidst the peaks of Min. Thus in the third year of the Long'an era of the Jin (399 CE), he took leave of Huiyuan to enter Shu. Huiyuan bitterly tried to retain him, but could not stop him. Huiyuan sighed: 'Human life loves gathering; you alone delight in parting. Why is this?' Huichi also sorrowfully replied: 'If one were detained by the affections of worldly gathering, one ought not to have left home in the first place. Now having already severed desires to seek the Way, we look forward precisely to [meeting in] the Western Land.' Thereupon the brothers wiped away their tears and parted in sorrowful silence.