--- title: "醒世錄 · 感應緣" description: "醒世錄由清代居士徐昌治輯錄編纂，是一部重要的佛教勸善典籍。該書成於清初，輯錄了歷代高僧大德、儒釋道三教關於因果報應、修身養性的箴言與事跡。內容旨在勸化世人明辨善惡、覺悟人生、斷惡修善，強調因果法則的真實不虛。其語言通俗，事例生動，在民間流傳甚廣。作為一部融匯三教思想的善書，醒世錄在佛教通俗教化領域地位顯著，對推動民間道德風尚與佛教倫理實踐產生了深遠影響，是研究清代佛教民間化與善書文化的重要文獻。" url: "https://rushiwowen.co/en/r/cmgmzt67p09rfl404kvjd23ir" --- ### 感應緣二驗 > Responses of Spiritual ResonanceTwo cases 宋沙門智達者，益州索寺僧也。行頗流俗，而善經唄。年二十三，宋元徽三年六月病死。身暖不殮，遂經三日能言。始困之時，見兩人皆著黃布褲褶，一人立於戶外，一人逕造床前，曰：「上人應去，可下地也。」達曰：「貧道體嬴，不堪涉道。」此人復曰：「可乘轝也。」言卒而轝至。達既昇之，意識怳然。四望極目，但睹荒野。途逕艱危，至於朱門，墻闥甚華。達入至堂下，堂上有一貴人，朱衣冠幘，據床坐，甚有威容，左右兵衛百許人。貴人見達，乃斂顏正色謂曰：「出家之人，何宜多過？」達曰：「有識已來，不憶作罪。」問曰：「誦戒廢不？」達曰：「初受具足之時，實常習誦，比逐齋講，恒事轉經，故於誦戒，時有虧廢。」復曰：「沙門時不誦戒，此非罪何？可且誦經。」達即誦《法華經》三契而止。貴人敕所錄達使人曰：「可送至惡地，勿令太苦。」二人引達將去。行數十里，稍聞轟磕，鬧聲沸火，而前路轉闇。次至一門，高數十丈，色甚堅黑。達自念經說地獄，此其是矣，乃大恐怖。悔在世時，不修業行。及大門鬧聲愈壯，門裡轉闇，無所復見。時火光乍滅乍揚，見有數人反縛前行。後有數人，執杈杈之，血流如泉。其一人乃達從伯母，彼此相見，意欲共語，有人曳之殊疾，不得款言。入門二百步許，見有一物，形如米囤，可高丈餘。二人執達擲置囤上，囤裡有火，焰燒達身。半體皆爛，痛不可忍。自囤墜地，悶絕良久。二人復將達去，見有鐵鑊十餘，皆煮罪人。人在鑊中，隨沸出沒。鑊側有人，以杈刺之。諸鑊皆滿，唯有一鑊尚空。二人謂達曰：「上人即時應入此中。」達聞其言，肝膽塗地，乃請之曰：「君聽貧道，一得禮佛。」便至心稽首，願免此苦。祈悔特至，既而四望無所復見，唯睹平原茂樹，風景清明。忽不覺還就身，時在索寺也。齋戒逾堅，禪誦彌固。 > There was a monk named Zhida of the Song Dynasty, a monk at Suo Temple in Yizhou. His conduct was somewhat worldly, but he was skilled at chanting scriptures. At the age of twenty-three, in the sixth month of the third year of the Yuanhui period of the Song Dynasty, he fell ill and died. His body remained warm and was not encoffined, and after three days he regained the ability to speak. At the onset of his illness, he saw two men dressed in yellow cloth tunics and trousers. One stood outside the door, while the other came straight to his bedside and said, "The master must come with us now. Please get down from the bed." Zhida replied, "I am weak and frail, and cannot endure the journey." The man then said, "A carriage will be brought for you." As soon as the words were spoken, a carriage arrived. Once Zhida boarded it, his consciousness became hazy. Gazing in all directions as far as the eye could see, he saw only wild, desolate plains. The road was treacherous and difficult. Eventually they arrived at a vermilion gate with magnificent walls and portals. Zhida entered and came to the foot of a hall. Seated on a couch within the hall was a noble personage in red robes and a formal cap, bearing a majestic countenance, flanked by about a hundred armed guards. When this noble person saw Zhida, he composed his expression and said sternly, "How is it that one who has left the household life should have so many faults?" Zhida said, "Since the time I first gained awareness, I do not recall committing any offenses." The noble person asked, "Have you ever neglected reciting the precepts?" Zhida replied, "When I first received full ordination, I indeed regularly studied and recited them. But as I later devoted myself to vegetarian feasts and lectures, I was constantly engaged in chanting sutras, and so at times I fell short in reciting the precepts." The noble person said, "For a monk to not recite the precepts—is this not an offense? Yet for now, recite the sutras." Zhida then recited three passages of the Lotus Sutra and stopped. The noble person instructed the attendants who had recorded Zhida's case, saying, "Take him to the place of suffering, but do not let it be too harsh." The two men then led Zhida away. After traveling several dozen li, he gradually heard a tremendous roar and the clamor of boiling chaos, and the road ahead grew increasingly dark. They came to a gate several dozen zhang high, dark and solid in color. Zhida thought to himself, "The scriptures speak of the hells—surely this is one." Terrified, he bitterly regretted that in life he had not cultivated good deeds. As they approached the great gate, the noise grew louder, and once inside it became so dark that nothing could be seen. At times, flames would flare up and then subside, and he saw several people with their hands bound behind them, being driven forward. Behind them, others wielded pitchforks, stabbing them, and blood gushed forth like springs. One of those bound was Zhida's paternal aunt by marriage. When they saw each other, they wished to speak, but someone dragged her away swiftly, and they could not exchange words. After entering the gate and walking about two hundred steps, he saw an object shaped like a rice granary, about a zhang or more in height. The two men seized Zhida and flung him onto top of this granary, which contained fire. The flames scorched Zhida's body, half of which became completely charred, and the pain was unbearable. He fell from the granary to the ground and lay unconscious for a long time. The two men then led Zhida onward, and he saw more than a dozen iron cauldrons, all boiling sinners. People were in the cauldrons, rising and sinking with the boiling water. Beside the cauldrons, attendants stabbed them with pitchforks. All the cauldrons were full, except for one that remained empty. The two men said to Zhida, "Master, now is your time to enter this one." Upon hearing this, Zhida felt as though his liver and guts were splattered on the ground. He pleaded, "Please allow me, a poor monk, to bow to the Buddha once." He then prostrated himself with utmost sincerity, begging to be spared this suffering. His supplication was fervent and wholehearted. Afterward, when he looked around, he saw nothing more of that place—only a vast plain with lush trees and a clear, bright landscape. Suddenly, without knowing how, he found himself back in his body, and he was in Suo Temple once more. From that day onward, his observation of the precepts grew ever stricter, and his meditation and chanting became ever more steadfast. 宋沙門釋曇典，白衣時年三十，忽暴疾而亡，經七日方活。說初亡時，見兩人驅將去，使輦米，伴輦可有數千人，晝夜無休息。見二道人云：「我是汝五戒本師，來慰問之。」師詣官主云：「是貧道弟子。且無大罪，曆筭未窮。」即見放遣，二道人送典至家，住其屋上，具約示典：「可作沙門，勤修道業。」言訖下屋。道人推典著屍，蘇後出家。 > A monk of the Song dynasty, Shi Tan Dian, was thirty years old while still a layman when he suddenly fell gravely ill and died. After seven days, he revived. He said that at the moment of death, he saw two men who drove him along, making him carry grain. Along with him, there were several thousand others hauling grain, working day and night without rest. He then saw two monks who said, "We are your preceptors from the five precepts, and we have come to comfort you." The masters went to the official in charge and said, "This is our disciple. He has committed no great offense, and his allotted lifespan has not yet run out." Immediately, he was released. The two monks escorted Tan Dian back to his home, stood on the roof of his house, and gave him clear guidance: "You should become a monk and diligently cultivate the Buddhist path." With that, they came down from the roof, pushed Tan Dian into his corpse, and he revived. Afterward, he left home and became a monk.