法華傳記 7.8

7.8

隋開皇中。魏州史博陵崔彥武。因行郡至一邑。愕然驚喜。謂從者曰。吾昔甞在此邑中為人婦。今知家處。因乘馬入循巷。屈曲至一家。命叩門。主人公年老。走出拜謁彥武入家。先昇其堂。視東壁上。去地六七尺。有高隆處。客謂主人曰。吾昔所讀法華經。并金釵五隻。藏此壁中。經函是也。其經第七卷尾後紙。火燒失文字。吾今每誦此經。至第七卷尾。恒忘失不能記得。因令左右鑿壁。果得經函開。第七卷尾。及金釵。並如其言。主人涕泣曰。亡妻存日。常讀此經釵亦是。亡妻因產死。遂失所在。不謂使君乃示其處。彥武指庭前槐樹。吾欲產時。自解頭髮。置此樹空中。試令人探。樹中果得髮於是主人悲喜彥武留衣物。厚給主人而去（法苑第二十六卷云。右一驗出冥報記）。

During the Kaihuang era of the Sui dynasty, Cui Yanwu of Boling, the Scribe of Weizhou, arrived at a settlement while traveling through the commandery. Astonished and pleasantly surprised, he said to his attendants, "In the past, I was once a woman of this settlement; I now know where my home is." Thereupon he rode his horse into the alleys, winding his way until he reached a household, and ordered them to knock on the door. The master of the house was elderly; he ran out and bowed in greeting. Yanwu entered the house, first ascended to the main hall, and looked upon the eastern wall, six or seven feet from the ground, where there was an elevated bulge. The guest said to the master, "The Lotus Sūtra I once read, together with five gold hairpins, are hidden inside this wall; the sūtra case is there. At the end of the seventh fascicle of the sūtra, the paper was burned by fire and the characters were lost. Nowadays, whenever I recite this sūtra and reach the end of the seventh fascicle, I always forget and cannot remember it." He then ordered his attendants to chisel into the wall; indeed, they found the sūtra case, and upon opening it, the end of the seventh fascicle and the gold hairpins were entirely as he had said. The master wept and said, "When my late wife was alive, she constantly read this sūtra, and the hairpins were also hers. Because my late wife died in childbirth, her whereabouts were lost; I never expected that you, commissioner, would show me the place!" Yanwu pointed to a locust tree in front of the courtyard: "When I was about to give birth, I untied my hair and placed it in the hollow of this tree." He had someone test by reaching in, and indeed they retrieved the hair from inside the tree. Thereupon the master was filled with both grief and joy. Yanwu left behind robes and goods, generously provided for the master, and departed. (Fascicle 26 of the Fayuan says: The above miracle is drawn from the Mingbaoji).