大方便佛報恩經 7.3

7.3

「復次，菩薩摩訶薩知恩報恩，修大方便利益眾生，應適隨宜顯示無方。善男子！有佛出世，號無畏王如來、應供、正遍知、明行足、善逝、世間解、無上士、調御丈夫、天人師、佛、世尊，應現世間，引接有緣。有緣既盡，遷神涅槃。滅度之後，於正法中有一婆羅門子，聰明黠慧，受持五戒，護持正法。婆羅門子緣事他行，遠至餘國，到於中路，多諸賊難，有五百人共為徒侶。前至嶮路，於頓止處，五百群賊常住其中，前後圍繞，欲劫行伴。爾時賊主密遣一人，歷伺諸伴，應時欲發。爾時賊中復有一人，先與是婆羅門子親善知識，以親善故先來告語：『善男子！當知於初夜時當有賊發。當時憒閙，恐相傷損，故來相告語。汝密自作方便，遠捨而去，勿令伴知。』

“Furthermore, the bodhisattva-mahāsattva knows kindness and repays kindness, cultivating mahopāya to benefit sentient beings, adapting appropriately and manifesting boundlessly. Good sons! A Buddha appeared in the world named Fearless King Tathāgata, Arhat, Samyaksaṃbuddha, Vidyācaraṇasaṃpanna, Sugata, Lokavid, Anuttara, Puruṣadamyasārathi, Śāstā Devamanuṣyāṇām, Buddha, Bhagavat, appearing in the world to guide and receive those with the karmic conditions. Once those conditions were exhausted, his spirit passed into nirvāṇa. After his extinction, during the saddharma, there was a brāhmaṇa's son, clever and intelligent, who received and upheld the five precepts and protected the saddharma. The brāhmaṇa's son traveled elsewhere on business, journeying far to another state. Arriving midway, there were many perils from bandits, and five hundred people formed a caravan together. Advancing to a treacherous path, at a halting place where five hundred bandits constantly resided, [the bandits] surrounded them front and rear, intending to plunder the travel companions. At that time, the bandit chief secretly dispatched a man to inspect and watch the companions, preparing to launch [an attack] when the time was right. At that time, there was another man among the bandits who was previously a close friend of this brāhmaṇa's son; out of close friendship he came beforehand to tell him: ‘Good son! You should know that in the early night the bandits will launch [their attack]. At that time there will be chaos and tumult, and fearing you might be harmed, I have come to tell you. Secretly make an expedient means for yourself, depart far away, and do not let your companions know.’