三寶感應要略錄 3.31

3.31

釋詮明法師。發願造三寸刻檀慈氏菩薩像。祈誓生兜率天。著上生經抄四卷。以明幽玄。夢其像漸長大。金色光明。赫灼對明微咲。明白像言。我等願求生兜率天。將得生不。像言。我既得釋迦文大師要勢付屬。不念尚不捨之。況有念願。作是言已。還復本像。明祕不語他人。沒後見遺書中。知其感應。臨終之時。傍人夢見百千青衣人來迎。明指天而去矣。

Dharma Master Shi Quanming vowed to make a three-inch carved sandalwood image of Maitreya Bodhisattva, praying and vowing to be born in the Tuṣita Heaven. He wrote an Excerpt on the Sūtra of Rebirth Above in four fascicles to illuminate its esoteric profundity. He dreamed that the image gradually grew larger, with a golden light shining brightly, and facing Ming, it smiled slightly. Ming addressed the image, saying, 'I and others vow to seek rebirth in the Tuṣita Heaven; shall we be able to be born there?' The image said, 'Having received the crucial and mighty entrustment from Great Master Śākyamuni, even those who do not think [of me] are not abandoned, how much less those who have mindful vows!' Having spoken these words, it returned to being the original image. Ming kept it secret and did not tell others. After his death, it was seen in his testamentary letter, and its sympathetic response was known. At the approach of death, people beside him dreamed that hundreds of thousands of blue-clad people came to welcome him; Ming pointed to the sky and departed.