高僧傳 6.43

6.43

Huiyong was upright and simple by nature, pure of mind and self-restrained; whenever he spoke he smiled, and his words never harmed living beings. He was devoted to the scriptures, skilled at lecturing, and lived on vegetarian food and coarse cloth throughout the entire year. He also separately built a thatched hut on the mountain ridge; whenever he wished to engage in dhyāna contemplation, he went to reside there. Occasionally when someone arrived at his room, they all smelled an extraordinary fragrance. In Huiyong's room there was always a tiger; whenever someone was afraid, he would drive it to go up the mountain; after the visitor left, it would return and submit tamely once more. Huiyong once went out to town and returned to the mountain toward dusk, reaching Wu Bridge. The commander of the Wu Bridge garrison was drunk, riding a horse across the middle of the road and blocking Huiyong from passing. The day was drawing toward evening; Huiyong pointed his staff at the horse from afar, and the horse immediately bolted in fright, throwing the commander to the ground. Huiyong carried and comforted him back to the camp, where the commander subsequently fell ill. The next morning he went to the temple to repent his fault to Huiyong. Huiyong said: 'It was not this poor monk's original intention; I fear it was the doing of the precept-protecting deities.' Both monastics and laity heard of this, and those who took refuge in him were numerous.