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卍新续藏第 88 册 No. 1641 见闻录 No. 1641 见闻录 古吴沙门 智旭 随笔 楚中有一生员。心迹正直。值冥府缺第七殿。上帝命暂主之。每隔数日则入冥理事。但正坐简阅文簿。不劳签判。而随彼前人行业。罪福异趣。每见有自上刀山剑树者。辄使左右救之。愈救愈上。竟莫能挽也。一日阅簿。见其妻有一罪款云。盗邻鸡一只。连毛重一斤十二两。遂折而识之。回阳诘问其妻。妻尚抵谩。彼述冥间所见质之。乃首曰。邻鸡食所晒物。失手误打令死。惧邻妇诟厉。故尚藏未发耳。因取出秤之。斤两不爽。相对惊异。遂以死鸡并价偿谢邻人。未几复入冥。简视前簿折痕如故。而罪款已无影迹矣(江西养智禅人说)。 乙卯科浙省解元冯铨。因会试入燕都。有一老人止生二女。仰铨为名士也。拜而托之。铨下第归。带至扬州。竟潜卖与娼家。媒来取二女。二女诟为诬诳。媒出诠手书示之。二女惊哭。遂投水死。是夜诠妻梦二散发女子从沟道入。一鬼从之。手持虎头牌。有速拿冯诠四字。惊异而醒。未几诠安隐归家。妻相接甚欢。诠问曰。我已下第。胡故欢甚。妻默不言。再三逼问。乃述前梦。诠正经行楼上。闻说梦毕。身即战栗从楼堕下。七窍流血闷绝 现代汉语译本 《见闻录》 古吴沙门（指居住在古吴地区的出家僧人）智旭（作者法号）随笔 楚地（古代楚国的区域，大致在今湖北、湖南一带）有一位生员（明清时通过科举考试，取得入学资格的读书人）。他心地正直。恰逢冥府（阴间）缺少第七殿的管理者，上帝（指天帝）便命他暂时代理。每隔几天，他就会进入冥府处理事务。只是端坐着翻阅文簿，不用签判（古代官府中的一种辅助官员）。而是按照那些人前世的行为，罪孽深重或福报深厚，各有不同的去处。每当看到有自己登上刀山剑树（地狱中的酷刑）的人，总是让左右（指冥府的差役）去救他们。但越救他们却越往上爬，最终也无法挽救。有一天，他翻阅文簿，看到他的妻子有一条罪款，上面写着：‘盗邻居鸡一只，连毛重一斤十二两。’于是他折叠了那一页，做了个记号。回到阳间（人间）后，他质问他的妻子。他的妻子还想抵赖。他便讲述了在冥间所见到的情况来质问她。他的妻子才承认说：‘邻居的鸡吃了我晒的东西，我失手误打死了它。害怕邻居妇人责骂，所以一直藏着没说。’于是取出鸡来称重，斤两分毫不差。两人相对惊异。于是用死鸡和钱财向邻居赔偿道歉。没过多久，他又进入冥府，查看之前的文簿，折叠的痕迹还在，但罪款已经无影无踪了（江西养智禅人所说）。 乙卯科（明朝崇祯八年，1635年）浙江省的解元（乡试第一名）冯铨，因为参加会试（进京参加的科举考试）来到燕都（北京）。有一位老人只有两个女儿，仰慕冯铨是位名士，便拜托他。冯铨科举落榜回家，将两个女儿带到扬州，竟然偷偷地将她们卖给了妓院。媒婆来接两个女儿，两个女儿骂媒婆是诬陷。媒婆拿出冯铨的手书给她们看，两个女儿惊恐哭泣，于是投水自尽。当天晚上，冯铨的妻子梦见两个披散着头发的女子从沟渠进入，一个鬼跟在她们后面，手里拿着虎头牌，上面写着‘速拿冯铨’四个字。她惊恐地醒来。没过多久，冯铨平安地回到家中。妻子非常高兴地迎接他。冯铨问道：‘我已经落榜了，你为什么这么高兴？’妻子沉默不语。再三逼问，才讲述了之前的梦。冯铨正在楼上走动，听到妻子说完梦，身体立刻战栗，从楼上摔了下来，七窍流血，昏死了过去。
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English version Record of What Was Seen and Heard Written by Shramana (Buddhist monk) Zhixu of Guwu (ancient name for the region around present-day Suzhou) In the region of Chu (ancient state roughly corresponding to present-day Hubei and Hunan provinces), there was a scholar (student who passed the preliminary civil service exam). He was upright in heart and conduct. It happened that the seventh court of the Underworld was lacking an administrator, so the Supreme Deity (referring to the Jade Emperor) ordered him to temporarily take charge. Every few days, he would enter the Underworld to handle affairs. He would simply sit and review the documents, without needing a secretary. Instead, according to the deeds of those who came before him, whether their sins were heavy or their blessings abundant, they would go to different destinations. Whenever he saw someone ascending the Mountain of Knives or the Tree of Swords (tortures in hell), he would always order his attendants (referring to the underworld servants) to save them. But the more they tried to save them, the higher they climbed, and ultimately they could not be rescued. One day, he was reviewing the documents and saw that his wife had a charge listed: 'Stole one chicken from the neighbor, weighing one catty and twelve taels with feathers.' So he folded that page and marked it. After returning to the human realm, he questioned his wife. His wife still tried to deny it. He then described what he had seen in the Underworld to question her. His wife then confessed, saying: 'The neighbor's chicken ate what I was drying, and I accidentally hit it and killed it. Fearing the neighbor woman's scolding, I kept it hidden and didn't say anything.' So she took out the chicken and weighed it, and the weight was exactly right. They were both surprised. So she used the dead chicken and money to compensate and apologize to the neighbor. Not long after, he entered the Underworld again and checked the previous document. The fold mark was still there, but the charge had disappeared without a trace (as told by Zen Master Yangzhi of Jiangxi). During the Yimao year (1635 AD) of the Chongzhen (last emperor of Ming Dynasty) reign, Feng Quan, the top scholar (first-place graduate) of Zhejiang Province, came to Yandu (Beijing) to participate in the metropolitan exam (civil service exam in the capital). There was an old man who had only two daughters, and he admired Feng Quan as a famous scholar, so he entrusted them to him. Feng Quan failed the exam and returned home, bringing the two daughters to Yangzhou, where he secretly sold them to a brothel. A matchmaker came to pick up the two daughters, and the two daughters cursed the matchmaker for slander. The matchmaker showed them a letter written by Feng Quan, and the two daughters were shocked and wept, so they drowned themselves. That night, Feng Quan's wife dreamed of two disheveled women entering from the ditch, followed by a ghost holding a tiger-head plaque with the words 'Quickly seize Feng Quan' written on it. She woke up in fright. Not long after, Feng Quan returned home safely. His wife greeted him with great joy. Feng Quan asked, 'I have failed the exam, why are you so happy?' His wife remained silent. After being pressed repeatedly, she told him about the previous dream. Feng Quan was walking upstairs when he heard his wife finish the dream, and his body immediately trembled, and he fell from the stairs, bleeding from all seven orifices, and fainted. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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于地。家人急扶起。唤醒之。乃具述负心事。言毕遂死(舟中嘉兴人说)。 苏州庠生陆谷。字戬夫。曩与予同参寒灰湛明诸公。后专精禅学。颇有省发。益复沉静。庚午岁暮乘小舟有所往。忽遇粮船上六人借登其舟。舟遂覆。六人皆无恙。谷竟溺死。家属偿其修行无灵验。乃示梦曰。余往世曾以一方便害此六人。今偿夙债。非修行咎也。设不修行。报当更剧矣。 洞庭西山蔡坦如居士。妻甚贤良。持斋念佛放生然灯。密作众福不求人知。既病剧。谓坦如曰。死固不须择日。但世人俗见谓修行人乃恶日死。亦所不便。幸为择日。明日吉乎。答云不吉。后日吉乎。答云亦不吉。乃曰。吾不能更待矣。今日吉乎。答云今日颇吉。因即命取水澡浴。集亲友念佛。正坐合掌而逝。 吴江太湖滩有一老人。生平惟喜念佛放生。别无所知。每行路时拾滩头蛳蚬放入水中。虽极冗不顾。平日遇有生命辄解衣割食买放。曾无退懈。忽一日谓家人曰。吾当西逝。可集亲友送我。因集众念佛。安然坐逝。异香经宿不散(吴江鉴空师说)。 杭州北关罗四。造大悲像。铸镜光。有老妪以一小镜相助。罗爱其古。存之。初铸仅成四边。二铸仅成半镜。三铸中缺一孔。与所留古镜大小正等。乃出所留镜投炉且云。此铸若 现代汉语译本： 倒在地上，家人急忙扶起他，把他唤醒。他便详细地叙述了背信弃义的事情，说完就死了（是舟中的嘉兴人说的）。 苏州的秀才陆谷，字戬夫，以前曾和我一起参访寒灰湛明等诸位高僧。后来他专心研究禅学，颇有领悟和启发，更加沉静。庚午年（1690年）年末，他乘坐小船前往某地，忽然遇到一艘粮船上的六个人请求搭他的船。船因此翻覆，六个人都安然无恙，陆谷却溺水而死。他的家属责怪他修行没有灵验。陆谷便在梦中告诉他们说：‘我前世曾经用一个方便法门害了这六个人，今生是来偿还宿债的，这并非修行的过错。如果我不修行，报应会更加严重。’ 洞庭西山的蔡坦如居士，他的妻子非常贤良，持斋念佛，放生点灯，暗中做了很多善事而不求人知道。在她病重的时候，对蔡坦如说：‘死本来不必选择日子，但是世俗之人认为修行人在不好的日子死去，也是不方便的。希望你为我选择一个日子。明天是吉日吗？’蔡坦如回答说不吉利。‘后天是吉日吗？’蔡坦如回答说也不吉利。她就说：‘我不能再等了，今天吉利吗？’蔡坦如回答说今天还算吉利。于是她就命人取水洗澡，召集亲友念佛，端正地坐着，合掌而逝。 吴江太湖滩上有一位老人，一生只喜欢念佛放生，别无所知。每次走路时，他都会捡起滩头上的螺蛳、蚬子放入水中，即使非常劳累也不在意。平日里遇到有生命的动物，总是解下衣服，节省食物来买来放生，从不懈怠。忽然有一天，他对家人说：‘我将要往生西方了，可以召集亲友来送我。’于是召集众人念佛，安然坐着去世了，奇异的香味经过一夜都没有散去（是吴江鉴空师说的）。 杭州北关的罗四，建造大悲像，铸造镜子。有一位老妇人拿出一面小镜子来帮助他。罗四喜爱这面镜子的古老，就把它保存了下来。第一次铸造只成了四边，第二次铸造只成了半面镜子，第三次铸造中间缺了一个孔，和所留下的古镜大小正好相等。于是拿出所留下的镜子投入炉中，并且说：‘这次铸造如果
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English version: He fell to the ground. His family members hurriedly helped him up and woke him. Then, he described in detail the matter of his faithlessness. After speaking, he died (as told by a Jiaxing person on the boat). Lu Gu, a scholar from Suzhou, styled Jianfu, used to visit eminent monks such as Han Hui Zhanming with me. Later, he devoted himself to the study of Chan Buddhism, gaining considerable insight and inspiration, becoming even more serene. At the end of the Gengwu year (1690), he was traveling somewhere by small boat when he suddenly encountered six people from a grain boat who asked to board his boat. The boat capsized as a result. All six people were unharmed, but Lu Gu drowned. His family blamed his practice for being ineffective. Lu Gu then told them in a dream: 'In a previous life, I used a expedient means to harm these six people. This life is to repay the karmic debt. This is not the fault of my practice. If I had not practiced, the retribution would have been even more severe.' Layman Cai Tanru of West Dongting Mountain had a very virtuous wife who observed vegetarianism, recited Buddha's name, released living beings, and lit lamps. She secretly performed many good deeds without seeking recognition. When she became seriously ill, she said to Cai Tanru: 'Death does not necessarily require choosing a date, but worldly people believe that a practitioner dying on an inauspicious day is also inconvenient. I hope you can choose a date for me. Is tomorrow auspicious?' Cai Tanru replied that it was not. 'Is the day after tomorrow auspicious?' Cai Tanru replied that it was also not auspicious. She then said: 'I cannot wait any longer. Is today auspicious?' Cai Tanru replied that today was fairly auspicious. So she ordered people to fetch water to bathe, gathered relatives and friends to recite Buddha's name, and passed away peacefully while sitting upright with her palms together. There was an old man on the Taihu beach in Wujiang who only liked to recite Buddha's name and release living beings throughout his life, knowing nothing else. Every time he walked, he would pick up snails and clams from the beach and put them into the water, not caring if it was very tiring. On weekdays, whenever he encountered living creatures, he would always take off his clothes and save food to buy them and release them, never slacking off. Suddenly one day, he said to his family: 'I am going to be reborn in the West. You can gather relatives and friends to send me off.' So he gathered everyone to recite Buddha's name, and passed away peacefully while sitting down. The strange fragrance did not dissipate overnight (as told by Master Jiankong of Wujiang). Luo Si of Beiguan in Hangzhou, built a Great Compassion Image and cast a mirror. An old woman helped him with a small mirror. Luo loved the antiquity of the mirror and kept it. The first casting only formed the four sides, the second casting only formed half a mirror, and the third casting was missing a hole in the middle, which was exactly the same size as the old mirror he had kept. So he took out the mirror he had kept and threw it into the furnace, and said: 'If this casting --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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成。吾当忏悔。若复不成。非吾咎矣。铸果立就。于是复捐赀礼忏。今其镜现在龙居永庆寺忏坛。 姑苏阳山西王象桥。有居民夫妇。每至稻熟时辄于邻田中搣取禾穗以自益。忽一日亡。父母附于女身大诟曰。汝盗邻家谷。冥府乃督我搣己田中穗偿之。两手皆伤。不胜苦痛。汝何害我至此耶。 又一居民植菜。有邻人齐根截去一畴。彼忍而不较。菜乃从根复生。茂盛倍常。次夜邻又截去一畴。彼不复堪。痛加诅骂。此畴所留菜根倍多。竟枯腐无复生者。 又一居民索陈债。负债者嫌其太迫。即口抵之。彼含恨言。如何负我物而不肯偿我。必为毒蛇噬之。未几患黄病。展转床席者年余。负债人闻其病笃。因念云。我本无心负彼。因彼态太恶。故谩相抵耳。今闻其抱病。我当偿之。乃备一本一利并礼物四盒往谢。彼人喜甚。相留对饮。饮醉忽吐一蛇。厥病遂愈。 杭州乡民有田数亩。界在祝乡䆠田中。祝以势力迫取之。民无可诉。誓来生作蛇相螫。遂得重病。命匠作棺留一孔穴。匠问知其故。以白于祝。祝悔悟。舆民至家。还其田契。并与养病之资。民感泣即吐出一蛇。霍然起走还家(王元建居士亲知其事)。 杭州于行素。妻重病三载有余。势在必死。一夜梦彩云拥菩萨到其庭。欢喜惊 醒。适值云栖大师到城。于率诸眷属固求大师光临。师命先作经忏道场四日。至末日乃往焉。病者恍如梦中所见。遂愈。 天启初年。吴江桑叶大贵。有居民养蚕数筐。因计成茧所得之利。不如卖叶利多。遂埋蚕载叶至湖州鬻之。舟过太湖。有大鲤跃入舟中。民取而藏之头舱。既至叶店。主人见叶上有血。诘问其故。答曰此鱼血也。鱼尚在头舱。试取看之。则俨然一人头矣。共相惊骇。更迫问之。答曰。实无他故。我自埋蚕卖叶。欲多取利耳。因同众人至埋蚕处。掘地视之。复得一死尸。与头相合。乃鸣于官。竟拟死罪。嗟乎。业报为蚕。不免煮茧之苦。亦甚惨矣。况为微利而活埋之。并使不得尽一期之生。人心安在。宜其报应之甚速也。 余母舅金赤城守贑州。因入觐归家。夏感疟症。隐几假𥧌。梦公署役人环列其左。出家缁流环列其右。复一老人语曰。若本从出家中来。今能回头仍向此道乎。能则尚可送汝老母。不能则老母反送汝矣。舅因思。吾母已年八十有四。岂当反令其送我耶。即应声曰。我当回头。声未讫。役人遂散。乃随缁众梵呗而行。忽动孤寂之感。悲悔而醒。异时在阳山墓庐。为余言之。但以䆠情甚热。仍莅贑州。未几升兖东兵道。归家病三四日而卒。竟使八旬余之老母泪眼欲枯。呜呼 现代汉语译本： 醒来。恰逢云栖大师（云栖寺的著名僧侣）来到城里。于是他率领全家恳请大师光临。大师命人先做了四天的经忏道场。到了最后一天才前往。病人感觉好像在梦中所见，病就好了。 天启（明熹宗年号，1621-1627年）初年，吴江的桑叶价格飞涨。有个居民养了几筐蚕，因为计算下来，把蚕做成茧的利润，不如直接卖桑叶的利润多。于是他把蚕埋了，装上桑叶到湖州去卖。船经过太湖时，有一条大鲤鱼跳进船里。这人把鱼拿起来藏在船头。到了桑叶店，店主看见桑叶上有血，就问他原因。他回答说是鱼血。鱼还在船头，可以拿出来看看。结果拿出来一看，竟然是一个人头。大家都很惊恐。又逼问他，他回答说，实在没有别的原因，我只是因为埋了蚕卖桑叶，想多赚点钱罢了。于是大家一起到他埋蚕的地方，挖开一看，又挖出一具尸体，和人头正好吻合。于是就告到了官府。最终被判了死罪。唉，因为业报而变成蚕，免不了被煮茧的痛苦，已经很惨了。何况为了微薄的利益而活埋它们，使它们不能活完一生的寿命，人心何在啊。也难怪他的报应来得这么快。 我的舅舅金赤城担任贑州（今江西赣州）的守将。因为进京朝见皇帝后回家，夏天得了疟疾。靠着几案休息，迷迷糊糊地睡着了。梦见官署的差役排列在他的左边，出家的僧人排列在他的右边。又有一个老人对他说，你本来是从出家修行中来的，现在能回头仍然走这条路吗？能的话还可以保全你的老母亲，不能的话就是老母亲反过来送你走了。舅舅心想，我的母亲已经八十四岁了，怎么能让她反过来送我呢？就立刻回答说，我应当回头。话音还没落，差役就散开了。他就跟着僧众唱着梵呗走了。忽然感到一种孤独寂寞的感觉，悲伤后悔而醒来。后来他在阳山的墓庐，对我说了这件事。但是因为贪恋世俗的情感很强烈，仍然去贑州上任。没多久升任兖东兵道。回家后生病三四天就去世了。最终使得八十多岁的老母亲泪眼哭干。唉！