經律異相 18.38

18.38

佛在祇樹精舍。諸比丘。勤修道業除棄陰蓋。有一比丘。飽食入室閉房靜眠。受身快意不觀非常。無復晝夜。却後七日其命將終。佛愍傷之。即入其室彈指寤之。為說妙偈。驚悟稽首作禮。佛告比丘汝本宿命。惟衛佛時曾得出家。貪身利養不念經戒。飽食却眠不惟非常。命終魂神生翁蟲中。積五萬歲。壽盡復為螺蜯之蟲樹中蠹蟲。各五萬歲。此四品蟲。生長冥中貪身愛命。樂處幽隱為家不喜光明。一眠之時百歲乃覺。連綿羅網不求出要。今始罪畢。得為沙門。如何睡眠不知厭足。比丘聞已慚怖自責。五蓋即除。成阿羅漢（出法句譬喻第三卷）。

When the Buddha was at the Jetavana vihāra, the monks diligently cultivated the practice of the Way, getting rid of the mental coverings. There was one monk who, having eaten his fill, entered his room, shut the door, and slept peacefully, indulging his body in pleasure without contemplating impermanence, heedless of day and night. Seven days later his life was to end. The Buddha, feeling pity for him, entered his room, snapped his fingers to awaken him, and spoke an exquisite verse for him. Startled awake, he bowed his head and paid homage. The Buddha told the monk, “In your past life, during the time of Vipaśyin Buddha, you once renounced household life. Coveting the body, gain, and offerings, you did not keep the sūtras and precepts in mind; eating your fill and then sleeping, you did not contemplate impermanence. When your life ended, your soul was born among the weng-insects for fifty thousand years; when that lifespan ended, you were reborn as a conch or clam insect, and then as a wood-boring insect in trees, for fifty thousand years each. These four kinds of creatures are born and grow in darkness, coveting their bodies and cherishing their lives; they delight in dark, hidden places as their homes and dislike light. When they sleep once, they only awaken after a hundred years; entangled in nets, they do not seek a way of escape. Only now has your retribution ended and you have obtained birth as a śramaṇa. Why do you still indulge in sleep without knowing satiety?” Hearing this, the monk was ashamed and terrified, reproaching himself; the five hindrances were immediately eliminated, and he became an arhat (from the third fascicle of the *Dharmapada-avadāna-sūtra*).