法華傳記 4.48

4.48

釋慧達者大原人。誦法華經五千餘遍。行坐威儀。其聲不輟。偏存物命。直視低目。地有蟲豸。必迴身而避。不敢跨越。有問答曰。斯之與吾。生死不定。將不先成正覺。安可妄輕之耶。以貞觀八年四月。結跏趺坐。誦法華而終。人謂入定。停于五宿。既似長逝。又不臭腐。乃合床內于窟中。

Shi Huida was a native of Taiyuan. He recited the Lotus Sūtra more than five thousand times; whether walking or sitting, in all deportment, his voice never ceased. He was especially mindful of the lives of living beings; looking straight ahead with lowered gaze, if there were insects or vermin on the ground, he would turn his body aside to avoid them and did not dare step over them. When someone asked about it, he replied, 'Between them and myself, saṃsāra is uncertain. Might they not attain correct enlightenment before me? How could one rashly slight them?' In the fourth month of the eighth year of the Zhenguan era (634 CE), he sat cross-legged, reciting the Lotus Sūtra, and passed away. People thought he had entered samādhi, and left him for five nights; since it seemed he had departed forever, yet there was no foul decay, they placed him, couch and all, inside a cave.