集神州三寶感通錄 3.29

3.29

前齊永明中。揚都高座寺釋慧進者。少雄勇遊俠。年四十忽悟非常。因出家蔬食布衣。誓誦法華用心勞苦。執卷便病。乃發願造百部以悔先障。始聚得一千六百文。賊來索物。進示經錢。賊慚而退。爾後遂成百部。故病亦損誦經既度情願又滿。迴此誦業願生安養。聞空中告曰。汝願已足必得往生。因無疾而卒。年八十餘矣。

Formerly, during the Yongming reign era of the Southern Qi dynasty, there was the monk Huijin of Gaozuo Temple in the capital Yangdu. In his youth he was bold, valiant, and an itinerant knight-errant. At the age of forty, he suddenly realized impermanence; he consequently renounced the household life, ate vegetarian food, and wore cloth robes. He vowed to recite the Lotus Sūtra, applying his mind with bitter toil. Whenever he took up the scrolls, he fell ill. Thereupon he made a vow to produce one hundred copies to repent of his former hindrances. He had just gathered one thousand six hundred coins when bandits came demanding goods. Huijin showed them the sūtra money, and the bandits withdrew in shame. Thereafter he succeeded in completing the hundred copies, his chronic illness also abated, and having recited the sūtra through to the end, his heartfelt wish was fulfilled. Dedicating the karmic merit of this recitation, he vowed to be reborn in Anyang. He heard a voice from the sky telling him: 'Your wish has already been fulfilled; you will surely attain rebirth there.' He consequently died without illness, at the age of over eighty.