高僧傳 4.30

4.30

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.