經律異相 19.86

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昔有道人。晝夜行道。初不懈息。且有身口之急。當須飲食。便行乞匃。忽到獵師邊乞。獵師無道。便大瞋恚。欲射道人。道人言。止止。勿射我餘處。正射我腹。便開衣露腹。喚令其射。獵師即下弓釋箭。前問道人。夫人之處世。無不畏死。而道人何故令我射腹。道人語言。此腹欲食。由此之故。不避危險。是以射之。獵師即悟。吾緣山嶺。不避虎狼。亦為此腹。宿緣福至。忽便開解。道人為說三塗之苦泥洹之樂。獵師自知殺獵罪重。便從受戒。發菩提心（出譬喻經第十卷）。

Formerly, there was a practitioner of the Way who practiced the Way day and night without ever slacking or resting. Yet, having the bodily necessity of food and drink, he went out begging. Suddenly, he arrived by a hunter to beg. The hunter had no morality, became extremely enraged, and wished to shoot the practitioner of the Way. The practitioner of the Way said, "Stop, stop! Do not shoot me elsewhere; shoot directly at my belly!" He then opened his clothes, bared his belly, and called for him to shoot. The hunter immediately lowered his bow, released his arrow, stepped forward, and asked the practitioner of the Way, "Among humans living in the world, there is none who does not fear death. Why, then, does the practitioner of the Way bid me shoot his belly?" The practitioner of the Way said to him, "This belly desires food, and it is on account of this that I do not avoid danger; therefore, shoot it." The hunter immediately had an awakening: "I scale mountain ridges without avoiding tigers and wolves also on account of this belly." His past merit came to fruition, and he suddenly understood. The practitioner of the Way preached for him the sufferings of the three wretched realms and the bliss of nirvāṇa. The hunter, knowing on his own that the sin of killing and hunting was heavy, then received the precepts from him and aroused the bodhicitta. (From Fascicle 10 of the Avadāna Sūtra).