法苑珠林 63.50

63.50

晉安羅江縣有霍山。其高蔽日。上有石杅。面徑數丈。杅中泉水深五六尺。經常流溢。古老傳云。列仙之所游餌也。有沙門釋僧群。隱居其山。常飲此水。遂以不飢因而絕粒。晉安太守陶夔。聞而求之。群以水遺陶出山輒臭。陶於是越海造山。于時天景澄朗。陶踐山足便風雨晦冥。如此者三。竟不得至。群所栖策與泉隔一㵎。旦夕往還。以一木為梁。後且將渡。輒見一折翅鴨。舒翼當梁頭。逆唼僧群。永不得過。欲舉錫撥之。恐其墜死。於此絕水。俄而飢卒。時傳云。年百四十。群之將死。為眾說云。年少時甞打折一鴨翅。將或此鴨因緣之報乎。

In Luojiang County of Jin’an, there is Mount Huo. Its height blots out the sun. Atop it is a stone basin several zhang in diameter. The spring water in the basin is five or six chi deep and constantly overflows. Ancient tradition says that it was where immortals roamed and took sustenance. There was the śramaṇa Shi Sengqun, who lived in seclusion on that mountain and constantly drank this water, thereby ceasing to hunger and abstaining from grain. Tao Kui, governor of Jin’an, heard of it and sought some; but whenever Qun sent the water to Tao, as soon as it left the mountain, it grew foul. Tao thereupon crossed the sea to visit the mountain. At that time, the sky was clear and bright, but as soon as Tao set foot at the base of the mountain, wind and rain plunged everything into darkness. This happened three times, and in the end he could not reach it. The hut where Qun dwelt was separated from the spring by a ravine; going back and forth morning and evening, he used a single log as a bridge. Later, when he was about to cross, he repeatedly saw a duck with a broken wing spreading its wings across the bridgehead, pecking at Sengqun so that he could never cross. He wished to raise his staff to push it aside, but feared it would fall to its death. Thereupon he was cut off from the water and soon died of hunger. Tradition at the time held that he was one hundred and forty years old. When Qun was about to die, he told the assembly: “When I was young, I once struck and broke a duck's wing. Could this duck be the retribution of that karma?”