1942年的九月初四日,弘一法师安详圆寂于福建泉州的不二祠温陵养老院晚晴室。死时,双眼流泪。临寂前,他对妙莲法师说:“你在为我助念时,看到我眼里流泪,这不是留念人间,或挂念亲人,而是在回忆我一生的憾事。”死前三天,他曾写下“悲欣交集”四字。通常情况,我们都知勘破生死的得道高僧圆寂时是平静如昔,心如止水的。但为 On the fourth day of September, 1942, Master Hong Hong passed away quietly in the evening chamber of Wenling nursing home at Fuji Temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province. When dead, his eyes shed tears. Before he died, he said to Master Miaolian: “When you were helping me, I saw tears in my eyes. This is not a memorial to my people or my loved ones, but a memory of my life’s regret.” For three days, he had written “four words of compassion”. Normally, we all know that the life-and-death learned Taoist monk is as calm as hell when he is dead. But for