05.菩薩誕生于世 Witnessing the birth of a Bodhisattva into the world

菩薩誕生于世

歲次庚子七月卅日寅時。顏氏夫人產期已至。誕生公焉。公出世為一肉團〈八地菩薩方有此境界〉。母駭且慟。以為無復舉子望。即氣壅死。翌日有賣藥翁訪。遂破之得男嬰。即云公誕生之情形。

宣化偈曰： 來本未來生無生。兜率內院降云公。 彌勒咐囑興佛法。釋迦授記振宗風。

Witnessing the birth of a Bodhisattva into the world

 The next year, between three and five a.m. on the 30th day of the seventh lunar month (August 26, 1840), Mrs. Hsiao went into labor and gave birth to the Master. He entered the world in a caul, a state had only by eighth stage Bodhisattvas, which caused his mother alarm. Thinking that there was no hope of her ever bearing children again, she died in grief. The next day, the family was visited by an old medicine peddler who, upon opening the mass of the flesh, removed a male child. These are the circumstances surrounding the birth of the Master Yun.

The verse says: He came and yet did not come; he was born and yet not born. From the court of Tushita Heaven, the Master Yun descended, Instructed by Maitreya Bodhisattva to bring forth the Buddha’s Dharma. Shakyamuni Buddha predicted that he would save the schools’ repute.