三寶感應要略錄 2.100

2.100

釋道俊。一生修念佛三昧。不樂餘行。時同州僧常慜。勸寫大般若經。俊曰。我修念佛。全無餘暇。如何寫抄。慜曰。般若是菩提直道。往生要路也。汝須寫抄。俊都不諾曰。我生淨土自然圓滿。即夜夢。至海濱見渡。海西岸上有莊嚴殿堂。六人童子。棹舶在海渚。俊謂舶童。我欲附舶渡西岸。童子曰。汝不信舶。豈得附舶。俊問。如何信舶。童子曰。舶是般若。若無般若。不能渡生死海。豈得生彼不退地。汝設附舶舶即沒。夢覺驚怖悔過。衣鉢寫抄般若。自然供養日。紫雲西來。音樂聞空。將非感應耶矣。

The monk Daojun cultivated the mindfulness of the Buddha samādhi all his life and took no joy in other practices. At that time, a monk of the same prefecture, Changmin, urged him to copy the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-sūtra. Daojun said, "I cultivate the mindfulness of the Buddha and have no leisure at all; how could I copy it?" Min said, "Prajñā is the direct road to bodhi, the essential path to rebirth. You must transcribe it." Jun refused entirely, saying, "Once I am born in the Pure Land, it will naturally be perfected." That night he dreamed that he reached the seashore and saw a crossing. On the western shore of the sea were adorned halls. Six boys were rowing a boat by the shore. Jun said to the boat boys, "I wish to board the boat to cross to the western shore." The boys said, "You do not believe in the boat; how could you board it?" Jun asked, "How can I believe in the boat?" The boys said, "The boat is Prajñā. Without Prajñā, one cannot cross the ocean of birth and death; how could one be born in that stage of non-retrogression? If you were to board the boat, it would sink." Awakening from the dream, he was terrified and repented of his error, using his robes and bowl [to raise funds] to copy the Prajñā[pāramitā]. On the day the offering was naturally completed, purple clouds came from the west, and music was heard in the sky. Was this not a sympathetic response?