法苑珠林 67.12

67.12

復以聞慧。或以天眼。見嗜睡蟲。其形微細。狀如牖塵。住一切脈流行趣味。住骨髓內。或住肉內。或髑髏內。或在頰內。或齒骨內。或胭骨中。或在耳中。或在眼中。或在鼻中。或在鬚髮此嗜睡蟲。風吹流轉。若此蟲病。若蟲疲極。住於心中。心如蓮華。晝則開張。無日光故。夜則還合。心亦如是。蟲住其中多取境界。諸根疲極。蟲則睡眠人亦睡眠。一切眾生悉有睡眠。若此睡蟲晝日疲極人亦睡眠。

'Furthermore, by wisdom born of hearing or by the divine eye, one sees sleep-loving worms: their shape is minute, like dust in a window chink; they dwell in all channels, circulating through the pathways of taste; they dwell within the bone marrow, or dwell within the flesh, or within the skull, or inside the cheeks, or inside the jawbones, or inside the throat bones, or in the ears, or in the eyes, or in the nose, or in the beard and hair. These sleep-loving worms drift and circulate driven by the wind. If these worms become sick, or if the worms become exhausted, they dwell within the heart. The heart is like a lotus flower: in the daytime it opens, and having no sunlight, at night it closes again; the heart is also like this. When the worms dwell within it, seizing upon many sensory objects, the sense faculties become exhausted; when the worms sleep, the human also sleeps. All sentient beings experience sleep; if these sleeping worms are exhausted during the day, the human also sleeps.'