[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [注維摩詰經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775) › 9.118 # 注維摩詰經 9.118 注維摩詰經 9.118 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.118) 什曰：謂堅固善心深不可動，乃名根也。如有一人到舍利弗處求出家，舍利弗觀其宿命，八萬大劫不種善根，棄而不度。往五百弟子所，盡皆不受。於是到祇洹門下，悲泣懊惱。佛從外還，見而問之。其人具以事答。佛即種種責舍利弗：「汝智慧不深不見人根，妄輕賤人耶？」佛即受其人，讚言：「善來比丘。」鬚髮自落、法衣著身便成沙門，佛為說法即得阿羅漢。舍利弗問佛：「此人何時種泥洹善根？」佛言：「乃往昔過去無央數劫，有佛名人可。時有一人入林取薪，虎從林出欲食其人。其人上樹，虎在樹下，其人極大恐怖。時佛從空中飛過，其人見已稱南無佛，心生信樂極厭生死，深心誓願願離此苦。因此善根，今得解脫。」時舍利弗。向佛悔過，舉身投地深自悲歎。佛言：「譬如石中有金，愚人不知棄而不取。金師見之，知其中有金，即以兩囊鼓而出之。眾生無明石中有智慧金，今汝智慧不深故棄而弗度。如來深見根本，以禪定智慧囊鼓而出之也。」 > \[Kumāra\]jīva says: When a firm wholesome mind is deep and unshakeable, only then is it called a 'root'. For example, a person came to Śāriputra asking to go forth as a monk. Śāriputra examined his past lives and found that across eighty thousand great kalpas he had not planted any wholesome roots, so he rejected him and did not deliver him. \[The man\] went to five hundred disciples, and none of them would accept him. Thereupon he went to the gate of the Jetavana, weeping and deeply distressed. When the Buddha returned from outside, he saw him and questioned him. The man answered explaining the situation in full. The Buddha then rebuked Śāriputra in various ways: 'Is your wisdom not deep enough to see a person's roots, so that you wrongly look down upon him?' The Buddha then received the man, praising him with the words: 'Welcome, monk (ehi bhikṣu).' His hair and beard fell off naturally, the Dharma robes came onto his body, and he immediately became a śramaṇa; the Buddha expounded the Dharma for him, and he attained arhatship on the spot. Śāriputra asked the Buddha: 'When did this person plant the wholesome root for nirvāṇa?' The Buddha said: 'Countless kalpas ago in the distant past, there was a buddha named Renke (Mānavottama?). At that time, a man went into a forest to gather firewood. A tiger came out of the woods wanting to devour him. The man climbed up a tree, while the tiger stayed beneath the tree, causing the man immense terror. At that moment, the Buddha flew across the sky; having seen him, the man uttered "Homage to the Buddha" (namo buddhāya). His mind gave rise to faith and joy, he grew intensely weary of saṃsāra, and made a solemn vow from the depth of his mind, wishing to be free from this suffering. Because of this wholesome root, he has now attained liberation.' Thereupon Śāriputra repented before the Buddha, prostrating his entire body on the ground and sighing deeply in lamentation. The Buddha said: 'It is just like gold in an ore: foolish people, not knowing it, cast it away and do not take it. A goldsmith sees it, knows that there is gold within, and blows on it with two bellows to bring it out. Inside the stone of sentient beings' ignorance is the gold of wisdom; now, because your wisdom is not deep, you cast him away and did not deliver him. The Tathāgata deeply perceives the root and brings it out using the bellows of dhyāna-concentration and wisdom.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.117](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.117) - [Next: 9.119](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.119) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775~en-mt.9.118) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.118](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1775.9.118) · Pramāṇa