四分律刪繁補闕行事鈔 2.269

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The sixty-second precept: drinking water with living organisms. The previous precept defined the boundary [as ending life], but this is a deep safeguard that does not wait for life to be cut off. There are five conditions: first, it is water with living organisms; second, one conceives it to have living organisms; third, one does not employ the filtering method; fourth, one drinks or uses it; fifth, an offense is incurred with each swallow. The Vinaya text Vinaya states: Two bhikṣus were heading to where the Buddha was; one died of thirst, was reborn in the heavens, saw the Buddha, and attained the Path; the other drank water containing living organisms and later arrived at the Buddha's place. After the Buddha questioned him about the reason, he took off his uttarāsaṅga and showed his golden body: 'You foolish man! Why contemplate this body composed of the four great elements as entirely foul? One who sees the Dharma sees my body.' The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya states: 'After a bhikṣu has received full ordination, he must keep a water-filter bag and an allowable water jar; if he has none, he should use a corner of his kāṣāya; if none among the companions have one, the entire community incurs an offense. If there is suddenly no water to wash hands before putting on robes, one may wipe them with tree leaves and then put on the robes.' The Sarvāstivāda-vinaya-vibhāṣā states: 'Śāriputra, using his pure heavenly eye, saw living organisms in the water and in the air like grains of millet in a sand vessel by the water, everywhere without exception, and thereupon refused to eat. The Buddha said: "What is seen by the physical eye and caught by the filter bag—if there are still [organisms] even through three layers, one must abandon that dwelling place and leave."' The Daśādhyāya-vinaya states: 'Traveling twenty li without carrying a water-filter bag incurs an offense; but if there are clear flowing large rivers or spring water from this monastery to that monastery, it is permissible.' The Mahāsāṃghika-vinaya states: 'When water has been filtered, it must not be inspected with strained effort; a dim-sighted person must not inspect it; one who can see the fine lines in his palm must inspect it. The inspection takes about the time it takes an elephant to turn a bamboo cart around; knowing there are none, it should be used. If a dānapati invites bhikṣus for a meal, one should ask whether the water has been filtered. If not, one must inspect and filter it oneself; or if there is a trustworthy person, one should instruct him to filter it; if the person is untrustworthy, one should filter it oneself. The living organisms must not be spoken to, nor killed or harmed. The water containing the living organisms should be placed in a vessel and poured back into the original source whence it came; if the source is far away, if there is a nearby pool whose water does not dry up for seven days, one places the organisms into it. If one knows water has living organisms, one must not lend a vessel and rope to others. If a pool of stagnant water has living organisms, one must not call out, saying: 'This water has living organisms'; if asked, one answers: 'Elder, look for yourself'; to close friends or disciples of the same teacher, one says: 'There are living organisms in here, you should filter the water before using it.'' People are also prone to commit this precept, and it is the same as the precept against pouring [water with living organisms] on the ground, so it has been fully extracted; the rest is as in the 'Robe Regulations.'"