往生西方淨土瑞應傳 1.7

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梁朝道珍禪師於廬山念佛。因作水觀。夢見水。百人乘船欲往西方。乃求附載。船上人不聽。珍曰。貧道一生修西方業。何故不聽。船上人曰。師業未圓。未誦彌陀經。并營浴室。於是船人一時俱發。珍既不得去。啼泣睡覺。乃誦經浴僧。多時又夢。一人乘白銀樓臺。舉手言曰。珍禪師。汝業已圓。好用其心。故來相報。定生西方。臨終夜。山頂如列數千炬火。異香滿寺。已後於經函中收得存生遺記。未終前並不說於人。

Dhyāna Master Daozhen of the Liang dynasty practiced buddhamanasikāra on Mount Lu. While performing water contemplation, he dreamed of seeing water, on which a hundred people were aboard a boat intending to go to the Western Pure Land. He asked to board, but the people on the boat would not allow it. Daozhen said, "I have cultivated the karma for the Western Pure Land all my life; why will you not allow it?" A person on the boat said, "Your karma is not yet complete: you have not yet recited the Amitābha Sūtra, nor have you constructed a bathhouse." Thereupon the people on the boat set out all at once. Since Daozhen could not go, he wept and awoke. He then recited the sūtra and provided baths for monks. After a long time, he dreamed again: a person riding a silver tower raised his hand and said, "Dhyāna Master Zhen, your karma is now complete; direct your mind well. I have come purposely to inform you: you are certain to be reborn in the Western Pure Land." On the night of his death, several thousand torches seemed to be lined up on the mountain peak, and a miraculous fragrance filled the temple. Afterward, his post-mortem record written while alive was found in a sūtra box; before his death, he had not spoken of it to anyone at all.