法苑珠林 98.46

98.46

如蓮華面經。佛告阿難。我今當說未來之時。有諸破戒比丘。身著袈裟游行城邑。往來聚落住親里家。彼非比丘。又非白衣。畜養婦妾產育男女。復有比丘。往婬女家。婬比丘尼。貯畜金銀。造作生業。以自活命。復有通致使驛以自活命。復有專行醫藥以自活命。復有圍棊六博以自活命。復有為他卜筮以自活命。復有為他誦呪驅遣鬼神多取財物以自活命。復有專行殺生以自活命。復有私自費用佛法僧物以自活命。復有內實犯戒外示護持受人信施。復有祕悋僧物不與客僧。復有悋惜僧房床座不與客僧。復有比丘實非羅漢而詐稱羅漢。欲令人知多受供養但為活命不為修道。復有興利商賈以自養活。復有專行盜偷以自養活。復有畜養雜畜乃至賣買以自養活。復有販賣奴婢以自養活。復有屠殺牛羊以自養活。復有受募入陣征戰討伐多殺眾人以求勳賞。復有專行劫奪攻破城邑及與聚落以自活命。如是無量地獄因緣。捨命之後皆墮地獄。譬如師子身肉所有眾生不敢食彼。唯師子身自生諸蟲還自噉食師子之肉。佛告阿難。我之佛法非餘能壞。是我法中諸惡比丘。猶如毒刺。破我三阿僧祇劫積行勤苦所集佛法。爾時阿難見此事已。心大悑畏身毛皆竪。即白佛言。如來速入涅槃。今正是時。何用見此未來之世如是惡事。佛言。阿難。未來之世多有在家白衣得生天上。多有出家之人墮於地獄餓鬼畜生。善惡之業終不敗亡。我於過去曾作商人。入於大海。活多人故手殺一人。以是業緣乃至成佛。猶尚身受金槍之報。

As the Padmamukha-sūtra states: The Buddha told Ānanda, “I shall now explain that in future times, there will be precept-breaking bhikṣus who wear kāṣāyas on their bodies and wander through cities and towns, going back and forth among villages, dwelling in the houses of relatives. They will be neither bhikṣus nor laypeople, keeping wives and concubines, giving birth to and raising sons and daughters. Furthermore, there will be bhikṣus who frequent the houses of prostitutes, commit sexual misconduct with bhikṣuṇīs, hoard gold and silver, and engage in business enterprises to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who run couriers and relay stations to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who exclusively practice medicine to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who play weiqi and liubo to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who perform divination and fortune-telling for others to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who chant incantations for others and dispatch ghosts and spirits, taking much wealth to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who exclusively take life to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who privately misappropriate the property of the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṃgha to make a living. Furthermore, there will be those who inwardly violate the precepts while outwardly appearing to uphold them, accepting the offerings of faithful donors. Furthermore, there will be those who secretively begrudge the Saṃgha’s property, not giving it to visiting monks. Furthermore, there will be those who begrudge the Saṃgha’s rooms, beds, and seats, not giving them to visiting monks. Furthermore, there will be bhikṣus who are not truly arhats but falsely claim to be arhats, wishing to make themselves known to receive abundant offerings, merely for the sake of making a living and not for cultivating the Way. Furthermore, there will be those who engage in profitable commerce to support themselves. Furthermore, there will be those who exclusively steal to support themselves. Furthermore, there will be those who breed various livestock and even buy and sell them to support themselves. Furthermore, there will be those who traffic in male and female slaves to support themselves. Furthermore, there will be those who slaughter cattle and sheep to support themselves. Furthermore, there will be those who enlist in the army to go to war, battle, and subdue others, killing many people in pursuit of military honors and rewards. Furthermore, there will be those who exclusively engage in plunder, raiding cities and villages to make a living. Such countless causes and conditions lead to hell; after their lives end, they will all fall into hell. Just as with the flesh of a lion's body, all living beings dare not eat it, yet worms naturally born from the lion's own body turn back and devour the lion's flesh; the Buddha told Ānanda, ‘My Buddha-Dharma cannot be destroyed by others. It is the wicked bhikṣus within my Dharma, like poisonous thorns, who destroy the Buddha-Dharma that I accumulated through three asaṃkhyeya kalpas of arduous practice and toil.’ At that time, when Ānanda witnessed this matter, his heart was filled with great fear, and the hairs on his body stood on end. He then said to the Buddha: ‘Let the Tathāgata quickly enter nirvāṇa; now is the right time. Why should You behold such evil matters in the future world?’ The Buddha said: ‘Ānanda, in the future world, there will be many lay householders who will be born into the heavens, and there will be many who have gone forth who will fall into the hells, hungry ghosts, and animals. Good and evil karma never perishes. In the past, when I was once a merchant who entered the great sea, I killed one person with my own hand in order to save the lives of many people. Because of the karmic conditions of this act, even upon attaining Buddhahood, I still personally suffered the retribution of being pierced by a golden spear.’”