勸發菩提心集 2.40

2.40

善男子！汝等修道忍辱為先。何以故？昔有一人名曰高王，出家受戒，輕賤其師，常懷慢心，於諸同道，亦復如是，鬪諍嗔忿口縱四過。命終之後墮大地獄，以經七佛猶不得出，却盡賢劫始可免難。餘報劫數，說不可盡。是故修道先當忍辱。又有一人作大國王，名曰𭫔盧伽，為大臻王之所討殄。王有一子名曰信住，其父滅已，藏身隱伏。年既長大，貧無資產，被遣事王。王時遊觀，身力疲極，失其眾侶，共王二人到一水邊，共王入洗。王時沈沒，信住接出，手捉王髮，擬之深淵。信住語王：「我是大臻子。王殺我父，是我大怨，蓋聞父讎不同天如蓋，兄讐不同國而行，我乘𮝉危事不可忍，王當就死！」其王報言：「百死無恨。」信住答言：「我不殺王，使王知耳。夫報怨者，譬如車輪無有已，不報和順，怨乃得止。」即便扶王上馬共還國。既還國已，召集諸臣問曰。「今得大臻王子，為賞為斬？」諸臣皆言：「亡國之子不可賞也。宜當殺之。」王即具論前事，以女妻之，還其本國，王自歸國如治。善男子！菩薩之心廣如山海，其中容處無量善惡，又讐猶忍，況餘嗔忿。現前中華報受樂，後生天中乃至大果，故持戒者忍力為大。

"Good sons! For you who cultivate the path, forbearance comes first. Why is this? Formerly, there was a man named Gaowang who went forth, received the precepts, held his teacher in contempt, and constantly harbored arrogance; toward his fellow practitioners on the path, he did likewise, disputing, becoming angry and wrathful, and indulging his speech in the four faults. After his life ended, he fell into the great hells; though seven Buddhas passed, he still could not emerge, and only after the end of the Bhadrakalpa could he escape the calamity. The kalpas of his residual retribution cannot be fully told. Therefore, in cultivating the path, one must first practice forbearance. Furthermore, there was a man who was a great king, named ...luka, who was conquered and destroyed by King Dazhen. The king had a son named Xinzhu. After his father was destroyed, he hid his body and lived concealed. When he grew up, being poor and without possessions, he was sent to serve the king. At that time, the king was on an excursion; his bodily strength was utterly exhausted, and he lost his retinue. Together with the king, the two arrived at the edge of a body of water, and he entered to bathe with the king. At that time, the king sank down; Xinzhu pulled him out, grasped the king's hair with his hand, and held him over the deep abyss. Xinzhu said to the king: 'I am the son of Dazhen. The king killed my father; you are my great enemy. I have heard that an enemy of one's father cannot share the same heaven as a canopy, and an enemy of one's brother cannot walk in the same country. Taking advantage of this perilous situation, this cannot be endured; the king must meet death!' The king replied: 'A hundred deaths would hold no resentment.' Xinzhu replied: 'I will not kill the king; I only wish to let the king know. Avenging resentment is like a carriage wheel that has no end; only through non-retaliation and harmony does resentment cease.' He then helped the king mount his horse and together they returned to the kingdom. Having returned to the kingdom, [the king] assembled his ministers and asked: 'Now that I have obtained the prince of Dazhen, should he be rewarded or beheaded?' The ministers all said: 'The son of a ruined kingdom must not be rewarded; he should be killed.' The king then recounted the previous matter in detail, gave his daughter to him as a wife, returned his original kingdom to him, and the king himself returned to govern his own country. Good sons! The mind of a bodhisattva is vast as mountains and oceans; within it are contained limitless goods and evils. If even toward an enemy one still forbears, how much more so toward other angers and wrath! In the present life one receives pleasant fruition in the central lands, and later is born among the heavens, up to the great fruit. Therefore, for one who upholds the precepts, the power of forbearance is supreme."