法苑珠林 43.26

43.26

爾時兇主語比丘曰。汝今必死。何所憂惱。比丘復以哀言答云。乞我少時生命可至一月。彼兇不聽。如是日數減止七日。彼即聽許。時此比丘知將死不久。勇猛精進坐禪息心。終不能得道。至於七日。時王宮內人有事至死。送付兇惡之人令治其罪。兇惡將是女人著臼中。以杵擣之令成碎末。時比丘見是事極厭惡此身。嗚呼苦哉。我不久亦當如是。而說偈言。

At that time, the cruel warden said to the bhikṣu, "You are certain to die now; what are you grieving about?" The bhikṣu replied again in sorrowful words, saying, "Grant me a short span of life, perhaps for one month." That cruel one would not permit it. In this way the number of days was reduced down to seven days, and he then consented. At that time, this bhikṣu knew that he would soon die; with vigorous zeal he sat in meditation to quiet his mind, yet in the end he could not attain the Path. When it came to the seventh day, a woman of the king's palace committed an offense deserving of death and was sent over to this cruel man to be punished for her crime. The cruel one took this woman and placed her in a mortar, pounding her with a pestle until she was crushed to fine powder. When the bhikṣu saw this matter, he felt extreme revulsion toward this body: "Alas, what suffering! Before long I too shall be like this." And he spoke a verse, saying: