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宋陸沅道。號省菴居士。住明之橫溪。晨起焚香趺坐。目不他瞬。首倡偈曰。盥手清晨貝葉開。不求諸福不禳災。世緣斷處從他斷。劫火光中舞一迴。然後念誦不緩不急。聲如貫珠。每日法華一遍。彌陀萬聲。一意西馳。年八十五。四月六日沐浴整衣而逝。洎殮忽聞蓮華馥郁之氣。皆不知來處。近挹之蓋出自口中也。

Lu Yuandao of the Song dynasty was styled Layman Xing'an. He lived at Hengxi in Mingzhou. Rising at dawn, he burned incense and sat cross-legged, his eyes never straying. First he chanted a verse: / 'Washing hands in the clear dawn, the palm leaves unfold; / Seeking no blessings, warding off no disaster. / Where worldly ties break, let them break; / Midst the light of the kalpa-fire, dance once round.' / Thereafter he recited neither sluggishly nor hurriedly, his voice like strung pearls. Daily he recited the Lotus Sūtra once and Amitābha ten thousand times, his mind racing solely toward the west. At eighty-five years of age, on the sixth day of the fourth month, he bathed, adjusted his garments, and passed away. When he was laid in the coffin, suddenly an aromatic scent of lotus flowers was smelled; no one knew whence it came. Drawing near to inhale it, it came forth from his mouth.