法苑珠林 26.13

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第三鬼趣中。亦有生處得智知他心等。云何知然。昔有女人。為鬼所魅羸瘦將死。呪師問鬼。汝今何為惱此女人。鬼便報言。此女過去五百生中常害我命。我亦過去五百生中常害彼命。怨怨相報于今未息。彼若能捨我亦捨之。呪師因報彼女人曰。汝若惜命當捨怨心。女人報言。我已捨矣。鬼觀女意都不捨怨。恐命不全妄言已捨。遂斷其命捨之而去。

Third, in the preta destiny, there is also cognition attained at birth that knows others' minds and so forth. How is this known to be so? In the past there was a woman possessed by a preta, emaciated and near death. A sorcerer asked the preta: 'Why are you now troubling this woman?' The preta then replied: 'In five hundred past lives this woman constantly took my life, and in five hundred past lives I also constantly took her life. Resentment has repaid resentment, and down to the present it has not ceased. If she can relinquish it, I too will relinquish it.' The sorcerer accordingly told that woman: 'If you spare your life, you should relinquish your resentful mind.' The woman replied: 'I have already relinquished it.' The preta examined the woman's mind and saw that she had not relinquished her resentment at all; fearing her life would not be preserved, she falsely claimed to have relinquished it. Thereupon the preta ended her life, left her, and departed.