釋門自鏡錄 2.100

2.100

Now, teachings on the retribution of good and evil are brilliantly set forth in the scriptures, yet foolish and perverse people are still confused about them. If one verifies them with actual facts, this is also a technique for awakening them. In my leisure time I browsed ancient records, gathering and recording conspicuous cases of karmic retribution among monks. Having chanced upon Master Huaixin’s Record of Self-Reflection, I sighed and said: “In contemplating the ancients, this truly captures my own heart!” Thereupon I collated and carved it into blocks to broaden its transmission, and furthermore appended several items that I have now acquired to the end. Written by Genchi of Kyōshō-ji in Heian, on the fourteenth day of the eighth month in the renchen year, the first year of the Any’ei era [1772], at the retirement quarters in Sagimori, Nanki.