宗鏡錄 78.35

78.35

偈答云。死依於他心。亦有依自心。依種種因緣。破失自心識。釋曰。如人依鬼毘舍闍等。是故失心。或依自心。是故失心。或有憶念愛不愛事。是故失心。或有夢見鬼著失心。或有聖人神通轉變。前人失心。如一比丘。夜蹋爪皮。謂殺蝦蟇。死入惡道。故云死依於他心。亦有依自心者。以依仙人嗔心。嗔毘摩質多羅阿脩羅王故。殺餘眾生。此依他心。他眾生心。虛妄分別。命根謝滅。以彼身命。相續斷絕。應如是知。頌云。經說檀挐迦。迦陵。摩燈國。仙人嗔故空。是故心業重。

The verse answers: / 'Death depends on another's mind, / And also depends on one's own mind; / Dependent on various causes and conditions, / One's own mental consciousness is ruined and lost.' / The explanation states: For example, when a person is possessed by a demon, a piśāca, or the like, on that account they lose their mind. Or it may depend on their own mind, and on that account they lose their mind. Or someone may remember pleasant or unpleasant events, and on that account lose their mind. Or someone may dream of being possessed by a demon and lose their mind. Or through the transformations wrought by a sage's supernatural powers, another person loses their mind. Just as a certain monk who stepped on an eggplant peel at night, thought he had killed a toad, and upon dying fell into an evil destiny. Therefore it is said that 'Death depends on another's mind, and also depends on one's own mind.' Because, relying on the rishi's mind of anger—due to anger toward the asura king Vemacitra—he killed other sentient beings; this depended on another's mind. The minds of those other sentient beings made false discriminations, their life-faculties perished, and their bodily life was broken off in continuity. It should be understood in this way. A verse says: / 'The sūtra speaks of Daṇḍaka, / Kaliṅga, and the realm of Mātaṅga; / Through the rishi's anger they became empty, / Therefore mental karma is the weightiest.'