諸經要集 3.83

3.83

Furthermore, the Fenbie gongde lun says: First, what matter is involved in buddhānusmṛti? The Buddha's body is adamantine, devoid of any āsravas. When he walks, his feet are four inches above the ground, and the impressions of the thousand-spoked wheel markings appear on the earth. The insects under his feet remain safe and at ease for seven days; if their lives end, they are all reborn in heaven. Formerly, there was an evil bhikṣu who was originally a non-Buddhist. Falsely assuming the monastic robes to slander [the Dharma], he followed behind the Tathāgata's walking, killed flying insects with his own hands, and placed them in the Buddha's footprints, claiming that the Buddha had stepped on and killed them. Yet, though the insects were dead, when they met the Buddha's footprints, they immediately returned to life. When he enters a city or town, as his foot treads upon the threshold, the earth quakes greatly, a hundred kinds of musical instruments sound on their own without being struck, and the deaf, blind, and mute, as well as those with a hundred ailments, are spontaneously cured. Beholding the Buddha's lakṣaṇānuvyañjana, one attains deliverance in accordance with one's practice. The deliverance wrought by his merits is beyond reckoning. In gathering all myriad practices together, conveying [beings across] is foremost. Such is the meaning of what is called buddhānusmṛti.