三寶感應要略錄 1.53

1.53

隋開皇中。有釋雙惠。不知何處人。一生期不退轉位。圖阿閦佛像一十體。又造同像一十二體。長三尺立像。專心祈請感應。夢感二人僧。一人自稱日光。一人自稱喜辟。汝識阿閦佛本願不。答粗知。二僧歡喜曰。善哉如汝。在濁惡世中。歸依阿閦佛。於一生中。入不退位。得生歡喜。覺已彌念。臨終啟眾曰。吾今往生歡喜國矣。

During the Kaihuang era of the Sui, there was the monk Shuanghui, whose native place is unknown. Hoping for the stage of non-retrogression throughout his life, he painted ten images of Akṣobhya and also fashioned twelve images of the same Buddha as three-foot-tall standing statues. With single-minded devotion he prayed for a sympathetic response. In a dream he experienced two monks, one calling himself Sun-Light and the other calling himself Delight-Opening, [who asked,] “Do you know the original vows of Akṣobhya?” He replied, “I know them roughly.” The two monks rejoiced, saying, “Excellent! In this turbid, evil age, one such as you takes refuge in Akṣobhya, enters the stage of non-retrogression in a single lifetime, and attains birth in Abhirati!” After waking, he recollected [the Buddha] all the more. Approaching his end, he announced to the assembly, “I am now departing to be reborn in the land of Abhirati!”