[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) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 25.12 # 法苑珠林 25.12 法苑珠林 25.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [25.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.25.12) 第五論云。阿那律所以稱第一者。時佛為大會說法。那律坐眠。佛見謂曰。今如來說法。汝何以眠耶。夫眠者。心意閉塞與死何異。那律慚愧剋心自誓不敢復眠。不眠遂久。眼便失明。所以然者。凡有六食。眼有二食。一視色。二睡眠。五情亦各二食。得食者六根乃全。以眼失食故喪眼根。佛命耆域治之曰。不眠不可治。已失肉眼無所復覩。五百弟子各棄馳散。倩人貫針捫摸補衣。線盡重貫無人可倩。左右唱曰。誰求福者與我貫針。世尊忽然到前取來。吾與汝貫。問曰。是誰。曰我是佛也。曰佛已福足。復欲求福耶。曰福德可得厭耶。那律思惟。佛尚求福。況於凡人邪。心中感結馳向佛視。以至心故忽得天眼。重復思惟便得羅漢。凡得羅漢皆有三眼。一肉眼。二天眼。三慧眼。三眼視者。恐肉眼亂天爭功精麁。以雜觀故。專用天眼觀大千界精麁悉覩。故言天眼第一也。 > The fifth treatise states: Why Aniruddha is called foremost \[in divine vision\]: At that time, the Buddha was expounding the Dharma for a great assembly, and Aniruddha fell asleep as he sat. Seeing this, the Buddha addressed him, saying, 'Now the Tathāgata is expounding the Dharma; why do you sleep? Sleep is the mind and thought obstructed—how does it differ from death?' Ashamed, Aniruddha disciplined his mind and swore an oath never to dare sleep again. Having not slept for a long time, his eyes thereupon lost their sight. Why was this? In general, there are six kinds of food. The eye has two kinds of food: the first is viewing form, and the second is sleep. The five sense-faculties each likewise have two foods. Those that obtain their food keep their six sense-bases complete. Because his eyes lost their food, he lost his eye-faculty. The Buddha ordered Jīvaka to treat it, who said, 'Going without sleep cannot be treated. Having already lost the physical eye, he sees nothing anymore.' The five hundred disciples each abandoned him and scattered away. He would ask people to thread his needle as he groped about to mend his robes. When his thread was used up and needed rethreading, there was no one he could ask. He cried out to those about him, saying, 'Who that seeks merit will thread a needle for me?' The World-Honoured One suddenly arrived before him, took it up, \[and said,\] 'I shall thread it for you.' He asked, 'Who is this?' \[The Buddha\] said, 'I am the Buddha.' He asked, 'The Buddha's merit is already complete; do you still wish to seek merit?' \[The Buddha\] replied, 'Can one ever be sated with merits and virtues?' Aniruddha reflected, 'Even the Buddha seeks merit, how much more so ordinary people?' Moved with earnest feeling in his heart, he turned quickly toward the Buddha to look, and due to his utmost sincerity, he suddenly attained the divine eye. Reflecting again, he thereupon attained arhatship. In general, all who attain arhatship possess three eyes: first, the physical eye; second, the divine eye; third, the wisdom eye. As for looking with the three eyes, fearing that the physical eye would confound the divine, contending over function in fine and coarse details due to mixed perception, he exclusively used the divine eye to view the great-thousandfold world, completely seeing all fine and coarse details. Therefore, he is said to be foremost in the divine eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 25.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.25.11) - [Next: 25.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.25.13) - [Up: 25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.25) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.25.12) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [分別功德論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1507.4.15) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.25.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.25.12) · Pramāṇa