止觀輔行傳弘決 1.31

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「法付提婆」，婆因入於大自在廟，廟金為像，像高六丈，瑠璃為眼，大有神驗，求願必得，怒目動睛。提婆語曰：「神則神矣。本以精靈訓物，而假以黃金瑠璃威詃於世，何斯鄙哉！」便登梯鑿神眼。眾人咸云：「神被屈辱。」婆曰：「欲知神智本無慢心，神知我心，復何屈辱？」夜營厚供，明日祭神。神為肉身而無左眼，臨祭歎曰：「能施施設，真為希有。而我無眼，何不施眼？」提婆即剜己眼施之，隨剜隨出凡施萬眼。神大歡喜，問求何願。婆曰：「我辭不假他，但人未信受。」神曰：「如願。」即沒不現。神理交通咸皆信伏，唯一外道獨懷瞋恨：汝以空刀破我義，我以鐵刀破汝腹。五藏委地猶不絕也，三衣乞之語令速去，復為追者說無常等。「我以業作，今還業受，汝何憂惱？」說以入滅。

"The Dharma was transmitted to Āryadeva." Deva once entered a temple of Maheśvara. In the temple was an image made of gold, sixty feet high, with lapis lazuli eyes; it had great spiritual efficacy, granting whatever was prayed for, glaring and rolling its eyes. Deva addressed it: "A spirit is indeed a spirit! Originally, one instructs beings through spiritual essence, yet you borrow gold and lapis lazuli to overawe and deceive the world—how base this is!" He then climbed a ladder and gouged out the spirit's eyes. Everyone said: "The spirit has been humiliated." Deva said: "If you wish to know the wisdom of the spirit, it inherently has no pride; the spirit knows my mind, so what humiliation could there be?" At night he prepared a lavish offering, and the next day sacrificed to the spirit. The spirit appeared as a flesh-and-blood body without a left eye. Coming to the sacrifice, it sighed: "To be able to make offerings and provisions is truly rare. Yet I have no eye; why not offer an eye?" Deva immediately gouged out his own eye and offered it; as soon as he gouged it out another grew, offering a total of ten thousand eyes. The spirit was overjoyed and asked what wish he sought. Deva said: "My words rely on nothing else, yet people do not yet believe and accept them." The spirit said: "As you wish," and immediately vanished. The spiritual truth was communicated, and all believed and submitted. Only one non-Buddhist harbored hatred: "You used an empty knife to destroy my doctrine; I will use an iron knife to pierce your belly." With his five viscera on the ground, his life had not yet ceased; he gave his three robes to him and told him to flee quickly, and also spoke to his pursuers on impermanence and other truths: "I produced this through karma, and now in return I receive this through karma; why are you distressed?" Having spoken, he entered extinction.