經律異相 20.23

20.23

時有族姓子。棄家捐妻捨諸眷屬。行作沙門。其婦端正姝妙。見夫捨家。便復行嫁。族姓子聞之。心即生念。與婦相娛樂。時愁憂憒惱。不復共樂淨修梵行。便起歸家。諸比丘聞。便往啟佛。佛呼為除癡愛塵勞之穢休息眾想。時族姓子尋時證明賢聖之法。時諸比丘白世尊曰。自非如來孰能爾乎。告諸比丘。此比丘者。不但今世心常在欲。乃往過去久遠世時。有一國王。名曰方迹。中宮婇女不可稱數。婬盪鬪爭不肯共和。適鬪爭已。便出宮去。方迹求之不知所趣。愁憂不樂不能自解。於時有一仙人。與五神通。神足飛行威神無極。名曰無樂。飛在空中。忽然來下。何為說愛欲之難離欲之德。出家為道。修四梵行。壽終之後。生于梵天。佛告諸比丘。爾時方迹王者。則此比丘是。無樂仙人者。則我身是（出那賴經）。

At that time there was a son of good family who abandoned his home, left his wife, cast off all his kin, and went forth to become a śramaṇa. His wife was shapely and exquisite; seeing that her husband had left home, she remarried. When the son of good family heard this, longing thoughts arose in his mind as he remembered making merry with his wife. He became sorrowful, distressed, and distraught, no longer taking delight in cultivating the pure brahma-practice together [with the Order], and arose to return home. When the monks heard of this, they went and reported it to the Buddha. The Buddha summoned him and, for his sake, dispelled the defilements of foolish lust and worldly toil, bringing all his thoughts to rest. Thereupon, the son of good family immediately realized the holy and noble Dharma. At that time, the monks said to the Bhagavat, "Were it not for the Tathāgata, who could accomplish such a thing?" [The Buddha] told the monks, "It is not only in this life that this monk's mind was constantly bound by sensual desire. In the distant past, long ago, there was a king named Fangji (Square-Footprints). The women in his inner palace were beyond count, yet they were wanton, contentious, and refused to live in harmony. Right after a quarrel, [the queen] left the palace and departed. Fangji searched for her without knowing where she had gone; he was sorrowful and unhappy, unable to dispel his grief. At that time there was an ascetic (ṛṣi) endowed with the five supernormal powers, who could fly by supernormal foot-power and possessed boundless majesty, named Wule (Joyless). He was flying through the sky and suddenly came down. For [the king's] sake he expounded the perils of sensual love and the virtue of renouncing desire. [The king] went forth to practice the Path, cultivated the four brahma-practices, and after his life ended, he was reborn in the Brahmā heaven." The Buddha told the monks, "The King Fangji of that time was this very monk; the ascetic Wule was my own person." (Extracted from the Nalai jing)