法華傳記 3.30

3.30

釋慧思。姓俗李氏。項城武津人也。兒時因夢。梵僧勸令入佛道。又夢。數僧訓以齋戒日惟一食。不受別供。時見朋類。誦法華經。情深樂重。先未曾誦。日從他借經。於空塚中。獨自看之。無人教授。日夜悲泣。塚是非人所居。恐畏非一。移託古城。鑿穴居止。晝則乞食。夜不眠寢。向經流淚。頂禮不休。其年夏多雨。雨穴濕蒸。舉身浮腫。行止不能。而怱心對經。心力彌壯。忽覺消滅平服如故。夢普賢乘六牙白象。來摩頂而去。法華一部。曾未識文。自然解了。所摩之處。自然隱起如肉髻。凡十年之中。誦法華聲不輟。復悟法華三昧大乘法門。境界明了位至六根淨（出傳中）。

Shi Huisi's secular surname was Li; he was a native of Wujin in Xiangcheng. As a child, because of a dream in which an Indian monk exhorted him to enter the Buddha's way, and another dream in which several monks instructed him in the fasts and precepts to eat only one meal a day and not accept separate offerings, he would at that time see his peers reciting the Lotus Sūtra and developed deep joy and heavy devotion. Having never recited it before, he borrowed the sūtra daily from others, and within empty tombs he read it by himself. With no one to teach him, he wept day and night. Tombs are dwellings of non-humans, and his terrors were not just one. He moved and lodged in an ancient city, digging a cave to reside in. By day he begged for food, and by night he did not sleep; facing the sūtra he shed tears and made obeisance without rest. That year, the summer had much rain; the rain made the cave damp and stifling, so that his whole body swelled with edema and he was unable to move about. Yet with an urgent mind before the sūtra, the strength of his resolve grew ever sturdier. Suddenly he realized it had cleared away, and he was fully healed as before. He dreamt that Samantabhadra, riding a six-tusked white elephant, came, rubbed the crown of his head, and departed. Though he had never before recognized the text of the entire Lotus Sūtra, he naturally understood it. The place where his head had been rubbed naturally rose slightly like a uṣṇīṣa. Throughout ten years in all, the sound of his reciting the Lotus Sūtra never ceased. Moreover, he awakened to the Great Vehicle teaching of the Lotus Samādhi; the realm was clearly understood, and he attained the level of purification of the six sense faculties (from his biography).