慈悲道場懺法 3.43

3.43

今日道場同業大眾！宜加用心攝耳諦聽。信相菩薩復白佛言：「世尊！復有眾生，其形極醜身黑如漆、兩耳復青，高頰俱阜、皰面平鼻，兩眼黃赤、牙齒疎缺、口氣鯹臭，矬短擁腫、大腹小腰，脚復繚戾、僂脊凸肋，費衣健食、惡瘡膿血，水腫乾消疥癩癰疽，種種諸惡集在其身。雖親附人，人不在意；若他作罪，橫羅其殃。永不見佛、永不聞法、不識菩薩賢聖，從苦入苦不得休息。何罪所致？」佛言：「以前世時為子不孝父母、為臣不忠其君、為上不敬其下、為下不恭其上，朋友不賞其信、鄉黨不以義從、朝廷不以其爵。斷事不以其道，心意顛倒無有其度。殺害君臣、輕凌尊長，罰國掠民、攻城破塢、偷劫盜竊，惡業非一。美己惡人，侵凌孤老、誣謗賢善，輕慢師長、欺誑下賤。一切罪業悉具犯之。眾罪業故，故獲斯罪。」

Today, assembly sharing this karmic endeavor in the bodhimaṇḍa, you should apply your minds even further, focus your ears, and listen attentively! Bodhisattva Śraddhāvanta spoke again to the Buddha, saying: “Bhagavat! There are further sentient beings whose appearance is extremely ugly: their bodies are black as lacquer, their two ears are greenish, their high cheekbones are protruding mounds, their faces are covered with pustules, and their noses are flat; both eyes are yellow and red, their teeth are sparse and missing, and their breath stinks of fish; they are short, stunted, and swollen, with large bellies and small waists; their feet are twisted and crippled, their backs are hunched, and their ribs poke out; they wear through clothes, eat gluttonously, and suffer from malignant sores oozing pus and blood, dropsy, wasting disease, scabies, leprosy, carbuncles, and deep ulcers—all kinds of miseries gather in their bodies. Though they try to draw close to others, people pay them no regard; if others commit crimes, calamity is unjustly visited upon them. They never see the Buddha, never hear the Dharma, and do not recognize bodhisattvas, worthy ones, or sages; from suffering they enter into suffering without rest. What sins caused this?”
The Buddha said: “In their past lives, as children they were unfilial to their parents; as ministers they were disloyal to their lord; as superiors they did not respect those beneath them; as inferiors they were irreverent to those above them; friends did not honor good faith; villagers did not follow righteousness; the court did not employ proper ranks; matters were adjudicated unjustly; and their minds were inverted, lacking any moderation. They killed and harmed lords and ministers, slighted superiors and elders, penalized the state, plundered the people, attacked cities, breached fortified camps, committed robbery and theft—their evil deeds were not just one. They praised themselves and vilified others, oppressed the orphaned and elderly, falsely accused and slandered the worthy and virtuous, disrespected masters and elders, and cheated and deceived the lowly. They committed all these sinful acts in full. Because of these many sinful deeds, they incurred this retribution.”