大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 84.46

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疏「即智論二鬼食人之事」者，謂此人行涉空亭止宿，見二鬼爭屍，皆言我先持來。二鬼共言：「取其分判。」此人實見小鬼持來，及被鬼問，竊自思惟：「我隨言一持來，彼不得者必當見害我。寧實語而死，終不虛誑而終。」遂如實答小者持來。被其大鬼拔其手足，隨而食之，得屍之鬼便取其死屍手足隨安。彼鬼食竟拭口而去。及明憂惱，不惻誰身，言假和合。初常疑云：「若我本身，眼見拔去。若是他身，復隨我行住。」疑惑猶預，逢人即問：「汝見我身不？」眾僧見之，云：「此人易度。」而語之云：「汝身本是他之遺體，非己有也。」悟此假合，因即得道。以常問故，故云常作聲也。

Regarding the Commentary's mention of 'the incident in the Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra of the two demons eating a man': this means that when this man was traveling, he stayed overnight at an empty pavilion and saw two demons fighting over a corpse, each claiming, 'I brought it first.' The two demons said together, 'Let us take his judgment.' This man had truly seen the small demon bring it, and when questioned by the demons, he secretly thought to himself: 'Whichever one I say brought it, the one who does not get it will surely kill me. I would rather die speaking the truth than meet my end through falsehood.' He then truthfully answered that the small one had brought it. The large demon tore off his limbs and ate them as he went; the demon who obtained the corpse then took the limbs of the dead body and fitted them onto him. When the demons finished eating, they wiped their mouths and departed. When day broke, he was distressed and perplexed, unable to fathom whose body it was; hence the expression 'spurious aggregation'. At first he constantly doubted, saying: 'If it is my original body, I saw it torn away with my own eyes. If it is another's body, it nevertheless walks and stands with me.' In doubt and hesitation, whenever he met someone he would ask, 'Do you see my body or not?' The saṅgha saw him and said, 'This man is easy to deliver,' and told him: 'Your body was originally the leftover corpse of another; it does not belong to you.' Awakening to this spurious aggregation, he thereupon attained the Way. Because he constantly asked, it is said that he 'constantly made a sound'.