法苑珠林 34.20

34.20

Furthermore, the Treatise on Distinguishing Merits states: What does the first, mindfulness of the Buddha, concern? The Buddha's body is adamantine, free of all outflows. When he walks, his feet are four inches above the ground, and the marks of a thousand-spoked wheel appear upon the earth. The insects beneath his feet are at peace for seven days; if they die, they are all reborn in the heavens. Formerly, there was an evil monk who was originally a non-Buddhist. Wearing the monastic robes under false pretenses to slander the Dharma, he followed behind the Tathāgata, killed a flying insect with his own hand, and placed it where the Buddha had left a footprint, claiming that the Buddha had stepped on and killed it. Yet although the insect was dead, upon encountering the Buddha's footprint it immediately returned to life. When he enters a city or village and his foot touches the threshold, the earth shakes mightily, a hundred kinds of musical instruments sound without being struck, the deaf, blind, and mute, and those with a hundred diseases are spontaneously healed; seeing the Buddha's physical marks, people attain deliverance according with his conduct. The aid brought by his merit cannot be calculated. Bringing together all practices, conveying [beings across] is foremost. What is called mindfulness of the Buddha has such meaning as this.