法苑珠林 32.23

32.23

爾時菩薩說此偈已。時彼山中有一鬼神。作醜陋形來恐悑我。我以神力令彼行處懸崖嶮岨不能得過。時彼山神即作是念。我以惡心恐悑他故。令我今者行處嶮難不可得過。今當往彼懺悔先罪。作是念已。尋即往詣。懺悔訖已發願而去。佛告比丘。欲知彼山神恐悑我故。五百世中形體醜陋見者驚走。由彼懺悔故今遭值我出家得道。比丘聞已歡喜奉行。

‘At that time, after the Bodhisattva spoke these verses, a spirit in that mountain assumed an ugly form to terrify me. By supernatural power, I made the place where he walked turn into precipitous cliffs and dangerous crags, so that he could not pass. At that time, the mountain spirit thought: “Because I terrified another with an evil mind, I am now made to face dangerous and difficult paths that cannot be traversed. I should now go to him and repent of my former transgression.” Having thought this, he immediately went there, and after finishing his repentance, made a vow and departed.’ The Buddha told the bhikṣus: ‘You should know that because that mountain spirit terrified me, for five hundred lives his bodily form was ugly, so that whoever saw him fled in alarm. Because of that repentance, he has now encountered me, left the household life, and attained the path.’ When the bhikṣus heard this, they rejoiced and put it into practice.