[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [經律異相](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121) › 18.20 # 經律異相 18.20 經律異相 18.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [18.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.18.20) 佛在舍衛國。時拘薩羅國。波斯匿王勅典獄者。諸有盜賊罪應入律詣市殺之。時有一賊在大眾中。逃竊得脫。外假法服。私為沙門。然內不思惟。謂為永離困厄之難。不復懼害。在閑靜處。不思道德。不習經戒。律儀禪誦之道。然未得證果。不勤求證果。佛告彼人。已免生死賊寇之難。故有餘恐。五盛陰身輪轉五趣。無有解已。為諸結使所見殘害。便當墮於餓鬼畜生之道。時彼比丘。在閑靜處。思惟校計。內自懇責。解知萬物皆悉無常。生不久在。盡歸於滅。興衰之變。斯來久矣。即於佛前。悔過自責。成羅漢道（出說竊為沙門經）。 > The Buddha was in the country of Śrāvastī. At that time, in the country of Kośala, King Prasenajit ordered the prison warden: 'All thieves whose crimes warrant the law shall be taken to the marketplace and executed.' At that time, there was a thief amidst the crowd who escaped secretly, falsely put on Dharma robes on the outside, and privately made himself a śramaṇa. Yet inwardly he did not contemplate, thinking that he had forever escaped the distress of peril and no longer feared harm. Remaining in a secluded place, he did not contemplate the path and virtue, nor did he study the scriptures and precepts, the rules of deportment, or the ways of meditation and recitation; and since he had not yet realized the fruit, he did not diligently seek to realize it. The Buddha told that man: 'You have only escaped the danger of the thieves and bandits of birth-and-death, yet remaining fears still linger. The body of the five grasping aggregates revolves in the five destinies without end; maimed and harmed by all the defilements, you will fall into the paths of hungry ghosts and animals.' At that time, the monk, in a secluded place, contemplated and deliberated, reproaching himself earnestly within, and understood that the myriad things are all impermanent, born not to abide long, and entirely return to extinction. Changes of rise and fall have come about for a long time. Thereupon, before the Buddha, he repented and blamed himself, and attained the path of an arhat. (From the Sūtra on Secretly Becoming a Śramaṇa) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 18.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.18.19) - [Next: 18.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.18.21) - [Up: 18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.18) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.18.20) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.18.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.18.20) · Pramāṇa