三寶感應要略錄 2.21

2.21

新羅僧俞者。新羅人也。少出家歸心於淨土教。見諸誦持阿含者。毀呵言捨。夢至極樂東門。將入門中。爾時有無量天童子。在門外立。以寶杖驅出俞曰。小道滅沒。即大教滅相。以小法為梯撜登大道。是汝國式也。輕慢阿含捨不誦。不可入大乘門云云。夢覺悲泣悔過。兼持誦四阿含。得淨土迎。弟子亦夢。師坐蓮花。來語曰。我娑婆兼誦阿含。依本習故。先得小道。不久還入大矣。

The Silla monk Sŭngyu was a man of Silla. He left home when young and turned his heart toward the Pure Land teachings. Seeing those who recited and upheld the Āgamas, he reviled and scolded them, telling them to abandon them. In a dream he reached the eastern gate of Sukhāvatī. Just as he was about to enter through the gate, immeasurable divine youths were standing outside the gate, and with jeweled staves they drove Sŭngyu out, saying, "When the lesser path is extinguished, that is the sign of the extinction of the great teaching. Using the lesser Dharma as a ladder to ascend to the Great Path—this is the model in your country! You slighted the Āgamas and discarded them without reciting them; you cannot enter the Mahāyāna gate," and so forth. Upon waking from the dream, he wept bitterly, repented his faults, and also upheld and recited the four Āgamas. He then attained welcome to the Pure Land. His disciple also dreamed of the master sitting on a lotus flower, who came and spoke to him, saying, "In the Sahā world I also recited the Āgamas; relying on that former practice, I first attained the lesser path, and before long I shall return and enter the Great."