高僧傳 10.7

10.7

Zhu Fahui was originally a native of Guanzhong. Upright, straightforward, and strict in observing the precepts, he entered Mount Songgao and took Fotumi as his teacher. In the first year of the Jianyuan era of Emperor Kang of the Jin, he arrived in Xiangyang and stayed at Yang Shuzi Temple. He did not accept private invitations; whenever he went begging for food, he always carried a corded chair with him, setting it down to sit whenever he came to an open road. If he encountered rain, he covered himself with an oiled cape. When the rain stopped, only the corded chair was visible, and no one knew where Hui was. Before people had ceased inquiring, Hui was already on the chair. He would often tell his disciple Fazhao: "In a past life you broke a chicken's leg; the retribution will soon arrive." Shortly afterward, Zhao was thrown down by someone and became permanently lame in his leg. Later he said to his disciples: "In Xinyao there is an old man about to die; I wish to deliver him." He then walked along the boundaries of the fields, and indeed saw an old man leading an ox to plow the field. Hui begged the old man for the ox; the old man would not give it. Hui stepped forward and seized the ox's muzzle himself. The old man, terrified by his miraculous manner, thereupon gave it to him. Hui led the ox, uttered an aspiration, turned around after seven paces, and returned the ox to the old man. The old man died a few days later.