諸經要集 13.55

13.55

如雜寶藏經說。昔有一鬼。白目連言。我以物自蒙籠頭。亦常畏人來殺我。心常怖懼。不可堪忍。何因緣故爾。答言汝前世時。婬犯外色。常畏人見。或畏其夫主捉縛打殺。或畏官法戮之都市。常懷恐怖。恐怖相續。故受如此罪。此是惡行花報。後方受地獄苦果。又緣其邪婬故。發言皆妄。今身若妄。苦惱眾生。死則當墮啼哭地獄。於遐劫中受諸苦惱。受苦既畢墮餓鬼中。在此苦惱無量生死。以本因緣。若遇微善。劣復人身。多諸疾病。尫羸虛弱。頓乏楚痛。自嬰苦毒。人不愛念。當知此苦皆緣妄語生也。

As the Zabaozang jing states: In the past, a ghost said to Maudgalyāyana: "I cover my head with an object, and I also constantly fear that people are coming to kill me. My mind is constantly terrified, beyond endurance. For what cause and condition is it so?" He replied, saying: "In your previous life, you engaged in illicit sexual relations, always fearing that someone would see you, or fearing that the husband would capture, bind, beat, and kill you, or fearing that the state's laws would execute you in the marketplace. You constantly harbored terror, with fear following upon fear. Therefore, you receive such punishment. This is the flower retribution of your evil deeds; afterwards you will receive the bitter fruit of the hells." Furthermore, because of sexual misconduct, whatever one utters is deceptive. If in this life one speaks falsely, tormenting sentient beings, upon death one will fall into the Weeping Hell, undergoing myriad sufferings and afflictions for distant kalpas. When the suffering is finished, one falls among hungry ghosts, experiencing immeasurable births and deaths in this distress. By virtue of one's fundamental causes and conditions, if one encounters slight good, one may feebly regain a human body, but will have many diseases, being emaciated and frail, exhausted with agony, personally plagued by bitter torment, not loved or cared for by others. One should know that this suffering all arises from false speech.