法苑珠林 77.37

77.37

Furthermore, the Sarvāstivāda-vinaya (Shisong lü) states: The Buddha was in the country of Śrāvastī. At that time, the elder Kālodāyin had attained the path of the arhat. Holding his bowl, he entered the city to beg for food. He arrived at the house of a certain brahman. The master of the house was not at home, and his wife had closed the gate to fry cakes. The bhikṣu Kālodāyin thereupon entered meditative absorption and manifested supernatural powers: disappearing into the earth from outside, he welled forth into the courtyard. He then snapped his fingers. The wife looked back and thought to herself: 'Where did this śramaṇa come from? He surely must have come because of a craving for cakes. I definitely will not give him any.' She then said to Udāyin: 'Even if your eyes fall out, I will still not give you any.' Thereupon, by his supernatural power, both his eyes immediately fell out. She thought again: 'Even if your eyes pop out as big as bowls, I will still not give you any.' His eyes immediately transformed to be as big as bowls. She thought again: 'Even if you stand upside down in front of me, I will still not give you any.' He immediately stood upside down in front of her. She thought again: 'Even if you die, I will still not give you any.' He immediately entered the absorption of the cessation of feeling and ideation (nirodha-samāpatti): his mental representations were entirely extinguished, and he was devoid of awareness. The brahman's wife tugged and pulled him, but could not move him. She was seized with great terror and thought: 'This śramaṇa often visits the palace of King Prasenajit and is the master of Queen Mallikā. If it is heard that he died in my house, we will suffer great disaster.' She then said to the bhikṣu: 'If you revive, I will give you a cake.' Kālodāyin thereupon emerged from absorption. The wife looked at the cakes: begrudging the well-fried ones made earlier, she would not give them. Scraping the edge of the basin, she obtained a small piece of dough; when she fried it, it turned out even better. Deciding to give him the earlier one instead, just as she lifted one cake, all the others stuck to it. Kālodāyin said to her: 'Sister, how many are you giving me?' She lifted four cakes intending to give them to him. Kālodāyin said to her: 'I do not need these cakes. You may give them to the saṃgha in Jetavana.' This woman had already planted good roots in past lives. She reflected to herself: 'This bhikṣu is truly not greedy for cakes; he has only come begging out of pity for me.' She then took the basket of cakes, went to Jetavana, and made the offering to the community of monks. Having done so, she sat before Kālodāyin. Kālodāyin, observing her causes and conditions, expounded the wondrous Dharma for her. Right on her seat, she attained the purity of the Dharma-eye and became an upāsikā. Returning home, she told her husband. Upon hearing it, the husband went to Kālodāyin. Kālodāyin expounded the wondrous Dharma for him, and he attained the purity of the Dharma-eye, becoming an upāsaka. He constantly exhausted his wealth and strength to make offerings to his ācārya, and even upon his death, he instructed his son to continue the offerings without interruption.