三寶感應要略錄 2.78

2.78

玄宗皇帝開元末歲有相者。聞聲知長短壽。於資聖寺。聞門外聲。唯有今日壽。即出見之。童子年十三。色貌端正。悲愍默入。明日復聞前童兒。年既七十餘歲延。生奇特念。即出問由致。童兒曰。吾今夜寄宿僧房。聞壽命經。更無餘事。相師歎曰。佛法不可思議。以占相智。不可識之矣。

In the final years of the Kaiyuan era of Emperor Xuanzong, there was a physiognomist who could determine long or short lifespan upon hearing a voice. At Zisheng Monastery, hearing a voice outside the gate, [he knew] the person had only today to live. He went out at once to see him: it was a thirteen-year-old boy of dignified and handsome appearance. With pity and sorrow, [the physiognomist] silently went back inside. The next day, he heard the same young boy again; his life was now extended past seventy years. Arousing a sense of the extraordinary, he immediately went out and asked the cause. The boy said, "Tonight I lodged in a monk's chamber and heard the Sūtra of Longevity; there was nothing else." The physiognomist sighed and said, "The Buddha Dharma is inconceivable; it cannot be known by the wisdom of divination and physiognomy."