往生集 1.58

1.58

梁道珍。住廬山修淨業。夢有人乘船海中。問之。云往彌陀佛國。珍乞隨行。船人云。汝未營浴室。及誦彌陀經。未可也。覺而浴僧誦經。歷年不輟。忽房內池面。降白銀臺。因默記其事。書經函中。命盡之夕。半山以上。如烈火千炬。交相輝映。邑人遙見。謂是諸王禮覲。及旦乃聞珍卒。後檢經函。知珍瑞應。宜生淨土久矣。

Daozhen of the Liang dynasty lived on Mount Lu cultivating pure karma. He dreamt that someone was riding a boat in the ocean. When he asked about it, the person said they were going to Amitābha Buddha's land. Zhen begged to follow. The boatman said: "You have not yet constructed a bathhouse, nor have you recited the Amitābha Sūtra; you may not go yet." Waking up, he provided baths for the monks and recited the sūtra without interruption for years. Suddenly, atop the surface of the pond in his room, a white silver dais descended. He quietly recorded the matter and wrote it in a sūtra box. On the evening his life ended, from the mountainside up, it was like a thousand blazing torches shining together. The townspeople saw it from afar and thought princes were arriving for an audience; only at dawn did they hear that Zhen had passed away. Later, when they inspected the sūtra box, they learned of Zhen's auspicious omen; it was only natural that he had long since been reborn in the Pure Land.