經律異相 41.23

41.23

昔有婆羅門。不樂世務。潛隱山間一心思道。即入禪定三百餘年。塵土沒身草木生其體上。山下有諸畜養妻子婆羅門數百家。大小相共採薪上樹。折取枯枝樹根。連婆羅門額樹既動搖。覺婆羅門禪從地中出。見採薪者問之。汝是何人。答曰。是婆羅門。餘人是誰。答曰。是妻子。婆羅門笑曰。我入禪三百餘歲。尚未敢稱婆羅門。汝等何忍自稱婆羅門乎（出十卷譬喻經第五卷）。

In the past there was a brāhmaṇa who took no delight in worldly affairs. He secluded himself in the mountains, single-mindedly contemplating the Path. He entered meditative absorption for over three hundred years; dust and earth covered his body, and grass and trees grew upon his form. At the foot of the mountain were several hundred brāhmaṇa households who raised wives and children. The young and the old went together to gather firewood and climbed trees. While snapping off dry branches and tree roots, which were connected to the brāhmaṇa's forehead, the tree was shaken, which awakened the brāhmaṇa from his dhyāna, and he emerged from the earth. Seeing the firewood gatherers, he asked them, "Who are you?" They replied, "We are brāhmaṇas." "Who are the others?" They replied, "Our wives and children." The brāhmaṇa laughed and said, "I have been in dhyāna for over three hundred years, and still do not dare call myself a brāhmaṇa. How can you bring yourselves to call yourselves brāhmaṇas?" (From the fifth fascicle of the Ten-Fascicle Parable Sūtra.)