法苑珠林 18.21

18.21

齊太原釋慧寶。氏族未詳。誦經得二百卷。德優先達時共知聞。以齊武平三年。從并向鄴行達艾州失道。尋徑入山暮宿巖下。室似人居逈無所見。寶端坐室前上觀松樹。見有衡枝懸磬。去地丈餘。夜至二更有人身服草衣從外而至。口云。此中何為有俗氣寶即具述設敬。與共言議。問寶云。即今何姓統國。答曰。姓高氏。號齊國。寶問曰尊師山居早晚。曰吾後漢時來。長老得何經業。寶恃己誦博頗以自矜。山僧曰。修道者未應如此。欲聞何經為誦之。寶曰。樂聞華嚴。僧即少時誦之。便度聲韻諧暢非世所聞。更令誦餘經率皆如此。寶驚歎曰。何因大部經文倏然即度。報曰。汝是有作心。我是無作心。夫忘懷於萬物者。彼我自得矣。寶知為異神也。求哀乞住。山僧曰。國中利養召汝何能自安。且汝情累未遣住亦無補。至晚捨去。寶返尋行跡不知去處。寶自躬責為人。後達鄴敘之（右二驗出梁高僧傳）。

In the Qi, the monk Huibao of Taiyuan was of unknown ancestry. He could recite two hundred scrolls of sūtras, and his virtue surpassed earlier sages, being widely known at the time. In the third year of the Wuping era of the Qi, while traveling from Bing toward Ye, he reached Aizhou and lost his way. Following a path into the mountains, he lodged under a cliff at dusk. The chamber seemed inhabited, yet looking afar nothing was seen. Bao sat upright before the chamber and looked up at the pine trees; he saw a stone chime suspended from a horizontal branch more than a zhang above the ground. At the second watch of the night, a person wearing clothes made of grass arrived from outside, saying: "Why is there worldly stench in here?" Bao related the circumstances in full and showed deference, engaging in discussion with him. The mountain monk asked Bao: "What family name currently rules the state?" He answered: "The Gao family, named the Qi state." Bao asked: "When did the venerable master take up mountain dwelling?" He replied: "I came during the Latter Han. What sūtra practice have you mastered, elder?" Bao, relying on his extensive recitations, was somewhat conceited. The mountain monk said: "A practitioner of the Way should not be like this. What sūtra do you wish to hear? I shall recite it for you." Bao said: "I delight in hearing the Avataṃsaka." The monk then recited it briefly; in a moment, it was completed, its tone and melody harmonious and resonant, unlike anything heard in this world. When asked to recite other sūtras, it was consistently like this. Bao marveled and said: "How could such vast sūtra texts be finished so swiftly?" He answered: "Yours is an intentional mind; mine is an unintentional mind. One who forgets the mind toward the myriad things naturally attains unity between self and other." Bao knew he was an extraordinary spirit and begged with sorrow to remain. The mountain monk said: "Offerings in the country call upon you; how could you be at ease here? Moreover, your emotional entanglements are not yet shed; staying would be of no benefit." At dawn, he departed. Bao turned to trace his footprints, but did not know where he went. Bao reprimanded himself as a human being. Later, when he arrived at Ye, he recounted this. (The above two verifications are taken from the Liang Biographies of Eminent Monks).