四分律行事鈔資持記 3.386

3.386

引文中，《護淨經》。彼云佛往昔共阿難行，遇值一池，深廣各四十里；池中有蟲，形如蝌蚪；佛語阿難：此池中蟲者，十方世界本是眾僧食不淨食，墮此臭穢糞屎池中，常食不淨等，餘同鈔引。經中墮蟲猪狗蜣蜋，並五百萬世，故云各也。因說知事者，彼云：昔有羅漢，向暗上廁；見一比丘在邊呻吟，羅漢問云：汝本好人，云何墮餓鬼中？答言：我飢渴來久等，餘如鈔。又云：憶念曾作比丘，知僧淨事；觸僧淨食，以不淨食食眾僧故，故致此殃；羅漢為呪願，得免餓鬼，還復人道等。蜣蜋，噉糞蟲也。《智論》：淨信檀越施僧求福，名福田食。下文指廣，須者檢看。《大集．濟龍品》。彼云：時有一盲龍舉聲大哭，作如是言：大聖世尊願救濟我，我今身中受大苦惱，日夜常為諸蟲咂食，居熱水中，無時暫樂。佛言：汝過去世時曾為比丘，毀破禁戒，內懷欺詐，外現善相，廣貪眷屬，弟子眾多，名聲四遠；以是因緣，多得供養，獨受用之。見持戒人，反加惡說；彼人懊惱，如是念言：世世生中食汝身肉；如是惡業，死生龍中。又過去無量劫中，在融赤銅地獄中，常為諸蟲食噉；乃至眾中二十六億諸餓龍等，悉皆雨淚；念過去身，雖得出家，備造惡業，經無量身，在三惡道；以餘報故，猶在龍中受極大苦。佛語諸龍：汝可持水洗如來足，令汝殃罪漸得除滅。諸龍以手掬水，水皆成火，變作大石，滿於手中，如是至七，亦復如是；佛教立大誓願已，焰火皆滅，乃至八過以手捧水洗如來足，至心懺悔，佛記彌勒佛時，當得人身，出家得道等，乃至諸龍得宿命心，自念過去或為俗人親屬因緣，或聽法因緣，入寺食於僧食等，今受龍報云云。《僧護經》。彼因僧護比丘海邊見諸地獄，多是迦葉佛時比丘不修戒行，毀壞三寶，貪用僧物，慳悋眾食，不給客僧，故受諸苦。尋文細讀，適足自勵。通下，總示前後諸文之意。自物犯者，雖是已物，亦從他施；故凡受用，豈容非法。《五百問》。因緣，同前《護淨經》。持戒尚爾，破戒可知矣。挃（陟栗），撞觸也。

In the cited texts, the Hujing jing (Sūtra on Protecting Purity): It states that in the past, the Buddha was walking with Ānanda and came upon a pool forty li in both depth and width. In the pool were worms shaped like tadpoles. The Buddha said to Ānanda: 'These worms in this pool were originally the saṃgha in the worlds of the ten directions who ate impure food and fell into this pool of foul-smelling feces and urine, constantly eating impurities, and so forth,' the rest being the same as cited in the Manual. In the sūtra, falling to become worms, pigs, dogs, and dung beetles is in each case for five million lifetimes; hence it says 'each'. Because it explains the administrator, it states: 'In the past, an arhat went to the latrine in the dark. He saw a bhikṣu groaning at the side. The arhat asked, "You were originally a good person, why have you fallen among the hungry ghosts?" He replied, "I have been hungry and thirsty for a long time," and so forth,' the rest as in the Manual. It also says: 'I recall that I once was a bhikṣu who managed the monastery's pure affairs; because I touched the saṃgha's pure food and fed the saṃgha with impure food, I incurred this calamity. The arhat made an aspiration on his behalf, and he was able to escape the hungry ghosts and return to the human realm, and so forth.' A dung beetle is a worm that eats feces. The Dazhidulun states: 'When pure-believing dānapatis give to the saṃgha seeking merit, it is called food of the field of merit.' Below, the text points to the wider treatment; let those who need it examine it. The 'Chapter on Rescuing the Dragons' of the Mahāsaṃnipāta: It states that at that time, there was a blind dragon who wailed loudly and spoke thus: 'Great Holy World-Honoured One, please rescue me! I am now undergoing great torment in my body: day and night I am constantly chewed and eaten by worms, and I dwell in boiling water with not a moment's joy.' The Buddha said: 'In a past life you were once a bhikṣu who broke the prohibitive precepts, harboured deceit within, and showed a good appearance outwardly. You were vastly greedy for retinues, having numerous disciples and a reputation reaching far and wide. By this cause and condition, you received many offerings and consumed them alone. Seeing someone who upheld the precepts, you instead made evil remarks about him. That person was distressed and thought: "In lifetime after lifetime, may I eat the flesh of your body!" Because of such evil karma, at death you were born among the dragons. Furthermore, during immeasurable kalpas in the past, in the hell of molten red copper, you were constantly eaten by worms; until among the assembly, two billion six hundred million hungry dragons wept tears like rain. Thinking of their past bodies, though they had gone forth, they had committed various evil deeds and passed through immeasurable lifetimes in the three evil destinies; and by the residual retribution, they still suffered extreme pain among the dragons. The Buddha told the dragons: "You may take water and wash the Tathāgata's feet, so that your sins and calamities may gradually be eradicated." The dragons cupped water with their hands, and the water all turned to fire and changed into great stones filling their hands. This happened up to seven times, and was still the same. After the Buddha instructed them to make great vows, the blazing flames were all extinguished, until on the eighth time they cupped water with their hands and washed the Tathāgata's feet, repenting with sincere mind. The Buddha prophesied that at the time of Maitreya Buddha, they would obtain human bodies, go forth, and attain the Way, and so forth,' up to the dragons attaining the faculty of remembering past lives, recalling of themselves that in the past, either due to kinship with laypeople or listening to the Dharma, they entered monasteries and ate the saṃgha's food, etc., and now suffered dragon retributions, and so forth. The Saṃgharakṣita-sūtra: That was because the bhikṣu Saṃgharakṣita saw various hells by the sea shore, which were mostly bhikṣus at the time of Kāśyapa Buddha who did not cultivate preceptual conduct, destroyed the Triratna, greedily consumed saṃgha property, were stingy with the assembly's food, and did not give to visiting monks; hence they suffered various pains. Consulting the text and reading it carefully is indeed enough to encourage oneself. 'General resolution below' shows the overall intent of the preceding and subsequent texts. 'Offense regarding one's own property': although it is one's own property, it also derives from another's giving; thus in any consumption, how could an illegal act be permitted? The Five Hundred Questions: The conditions are the same as the Hujing jing above. If it is so even for those who uphold the precepts, those who break the precepts may well be known. Zhi (pronounced zhi-li) means striking or touching.