法苑珠林 97.60

97.60

晉竺法慧。本關中人。方直有戒行。入嵩高山事佛圖蜜為師。晉康帝建元年。至襄陽止羊叔子寺。不受別請。每乞食輒齎繩床自隨。於閑曠之路則施之而坐。時或遇雨以油帔自覆。雨止唯見繩床。不知慧所在。訊問未息。慧已在床。每語弟子法昭曰。汝過去時折一雞脚。其殃尋至。俄而昭為人所擲。脚遂永疾。後語弟子云。新野有一老翁當命過。吾欲度之。仍行於畦畔之間。果見一翁將牛耕田。慧從乞牛。翁不與。慧前自捉牛鼻。翁懼其異。遂以施之。慧牽牛呪願七步而反。以牛還翁。翁少日而亡。後征西庾移恭鎮襄陽。既素不奉法。聞慧有非常之迹甚嫉之。慧預告弟子曰。吾宿對尋至。誡勸眷屬令勤修福善。爾後二日果收而刑之。春秋五十八矣。臨死語眾人云。猶枉刑吾。吾死後三日天當暴雨。至期果洪霔。城門外深一丈。恭眷屬居民等並皆沒死（右此二驗出梁高僧傳）。

Zhu Fahui of the Jin was originally a person from Guanzhong. Upright and straightforward, he possessed moral conduct according to the precepts. He entered Mount Songgao to serve Fotomi as his teacher. In the first year of the Jianyuan reign of Emperor Kang of the Jin, he arrived in Xiangyang and resided at the temple of Master Yang Shu. He would not accept private invitations. Whenever he went begging for food, he would always carry a rope-woven bed with him. When on a quiet and open road, he would set it up and sit upon it. When he occasionally encountered rain, he covered himself with an oiled cape. When the rain stopped, only the rope bed could be seen; people did not know where Fahui was. Before their inquiries had ceased, Fahui was already on the bed. He often said to his disciple Fazhao: "In a past life you broke a chicken's leg. The calamity from that will soon arrive." Shortly thereafter, Zhao was thrown down by someone, and his leg became permanently crippled. Later, he said to his disciples: "In Xinye there is an old man whose life is about to end; I wish to deliver him." He then walked along the dikes between the fields, where he indeed saw an old man leading an ox to plow the field. Fahui begged the ox from him, but the old man would not give it. Fahui stepped forward and took hold of the ox's nose himself. Terrified by his supernatural demeanour, the old man thereupon offered it to him. Fahui led the ox, uttered an aspiration, turned around after seven steps, and returned the ox to the old man. The old man died a few days later. Later, Yu Yigong, General Who Conquers the West, was stationed at Xiangyang. Since he had never honoured the Dharma, he was exceedingly jealous when he heard that Fahui possessed extraordinary feats. Fahui forewarned his disciples, saying: "My past karmic retribution will soon arrive." He admonished his followers and enjoined them to diligently cultivate merit and goodness. Two days later, [Yu Yigong] indeed arrested and executed him; he was fifty-eight years of age. Nearing death, he said to the crowd: "You are executing me unjustly. Three days after my death, there will be a torrential downpour from the sky." When the time arrived, there was indeed a great deluge, one zhang deep outside the city gates. Yu Yigong's kin, the local residents, and others were all drowned to death. (The above two evidential miracles are from the Liang Gaoseng zhuan.)