法苑珠林 53.38

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又新婆沙論云。兄授伽陀一偈。經四月誦不得。兄訶擯出。爾時世尊見啼愍之。即以神力轉彼所誦伽陀。更為授之。尋時誦得。過四月所用功勞。復別授以除塵垢頌。而語之言。今日苾芻從外來者。汝皆可為拭革屣上所有塵垢。小路敬諾如教奉行。至日暮時有一苾芻。革屣極為塵垢所著。小路拭之。一隻極淨。一隻苦拭而不能淨。即作是念。外物塵垢暫時染著。猶不可淨。況內貪欲瞋癡等垢。長夜染心何由能淨。作是念時。彼不淨觀及持息念便現在前。次第即得阿羅漢果。問小路何緣如此闇鈍。答尊者小路。於昔迦葉波佛法中。具足受持彼佛三藏。由法慳垢覆蔽其心曾不為他。受文解義及理廢忘。由彼業故今得如是極闇鈍果。有說。彼尊者曾於婆羅痆斯城作販猪人。縛五百猪口。運置船上度至彼岸。及下船時。氣不通故。猪皆已死。由彼業力如是闇鈍。有說。彼尊者昔餘生中。曾閉塞瞿陀獸窟門。令不得出。在中而死。由彼業故闇鈍如是。

Furthermore, the *New Mahāvibhāṣā-śāstra* says: His elder brother taught him a single gāthā verse, but after four months he still could not recite it. His elder brother scolded and expelled him. At that time, the World-Honoured One saw him weeping, took pity on him, and by divine power transformed the gāthā he had been reciting and taught it to him anew. He was immediately able to recite it, surpassing the effort he had spent over those four months. [The Buddha] then separately taught him a verse on removing dust and defilement, and told him: "Today, when bhikṣus arrive from outside, you may wipe off all the dust and dirt on their leather shoes." Cūḍapanthaka reverently agreed and practiced according to the instruction. At dusk, there was a bhikṣu whose leather shoes were heavily soiled with dust and dirt. Cūḍapanthaka wiped them; one was completely clean, but though he wiped the other vigorously, it could not be made clean. He then reflected: "The dust and dirt of external objects is merely temporarily attached, yet it still cannot be cleansed; how much more so with the inner defilements of greed, hatred, and ignorance, which have tainted the mind through the long night—how could they be cleansed?" As he had this thought, the contemplation of impurity and the mindfulness of breathing immediately appeared before him. In sequence, he then attained the fruit of an arhat. Question: By what cause was Cūḍapanthaka so dim and dull? Answer: In the past, in the Dharma of Kāśyapa Buddha, the venerable Cūḍapanthaka fully received and maintained that Buddha's tripiṭaka. Because his mind was veiled by the defilement of stinginess with the Dharma, he never received the texts, explained the meanings, or taught them to others, and through neglect he forgot the principles. Due to that karma, he now received such an extremely dim and dull result. Some say that this venerable one was once a pig dealer in the city of Vārāṇasī. He bound the muzzles of five hundred pigs, loaded them onto a boat, and carried them to the other shore. When he unloaded them from the boat, because their breathing was blocked, all the pigs had died. By the force of that karma, he was dim and dull like this. Some say that in another past life, this venerable one once blocked the entrance to the burrow of an iguana-beast so that it could not come out, and it died inside. Due to that karma, he was dim and dull like this.