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Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 684.15

雜阿含經 684.15

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Classical Chinese

684.15

「復次,如來以天眼淨過於人眼,見眾生死時、生時,妙色、惡色、下色、上色,向於惡趣、向於善趣、隨業法受悉如實知:『此眾生身惡業成就,口、意惡業成就,謗毀賢聖,受邪見業;以是因緣,身壞命終,墮惡趣,生地獄中。此眾生身善行,口、意善行,不謗賢聖,正見業法受;彼因彼緣,身壞命終,生善趣天上。』悉如實知,是名第九如來力。若此力成就,如來、應、等正覺得先佛最勝處智,能轉梵輪,於大眾中師子吼而吼。

“Furthermore, the Tathāgata sees sentient beings as they are born and die with his heavenly eye that transcends the human eye. When they are born, they have wonderful forms, ugly forms, lower forms, and higher forms. They head for bad destinations and head for good destinations, and they experience them according to their deeds. He truly knows: ‘This sentient being has committed bad physical deeds and committed bad verbal and mental deeds that are criticized by the noble ones. That sentient being accepts the deeds of wrong view. Because of these causes and conditions, it’ll fall to the bad destination of being born in hell when its life ends and its body breaks up.’ ‘This sentient being’s good physical deeds and good verbal and mental deeds aren’t criticized by the noble ones. That sentient being accepts the deeds of right view. Because of these causes and conditions, they’ll be born in a good destination up in heaven when their life ends and their body breaks up.’ He truly knows all of this. This is called the Tathāgata’s ninth power. If someone accomplished this power, it would be the Tathāgata, Arhat, and Completely Awakened One. Before becoming a buddha, he attained the highest abode of knowledge. He turned the Brahma wheel and roared the lion’s roar amid his great assembly.

Charles Patton, The Connected Discourses (selected sūtras)

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