諸經要集 18.68

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又觀佛三昧海經云。佛告阿難。若有眾生殺父害母。罵辱六親。作是罪者。命終之時揮霍之間。譬如壯士屈申臂頃。直落阿鼻大地獄中。化閻羅王大聲告勅。癡人獄種。汝在世時不孝父母。邪慢無道。汝今生處名阿鼻地獄。作是語已即滅不現。爾時獄卒復驅罪人。從於下隔乃至上隔。經歷八萬四千隔中。攢身而過。至鐵網際。一日一夜乃爾周遍。阿鼻地獄一日一夜。比此閻浮提日月歲數。經六十小劫。如是壽命盡一大劫。具五逆者。其人受罪足滿五劫。復有眾生。犯四重禁。虛食信施。誹謗邪見不識因果。斷學般若。毀十方佛。偷僧祇物。婬妷無道。逼略淨戒諸比丘尼姊妹親戚。不知慚愧。毀辱所親。造眾惡事。此人罪報。臨命終時刀風解身。俄爾之間身如鐵花。滿十八隔中。一一花八萬四千葉。一一葉頭身手支節。各在一隔間。地獄不大。此身不小。遍滿如此大地獄中。經歷八萬四千大劫。此泥犁滅。復入東方十八隔中。如前受苦。此阿鼻獄南西北方。各經十八隔。謗方等經。具五逆罪。破壞僧祇。污比丘比丘尼。斷諸善根如此罪人具眾罪者。身滿阿鼻獄。四支復滿十八隔中。此阿鼻獄但燒如此。獄種眾生劫欲盡時。東門即開。見東門外。清泉流水華果林樹。一切俱現。是諸罪人從下隔見。眼火暫歇。從下隔起婉轉腹行。踊身上走到上隔中。手攀刀輪。時虛空中雨熱鐵丸。走趣東門。既至門閫。獄卒羅剎。手捉鐵叉逆刺其眼。鐵狗嚙心悶絕而死。死已復生。見南門開如前不異。如是西門北門亦復如此。如此時間經歷半劫。阿鼻獄死生寒氷中。寒氷獄死生黑暗處。八千萬歲目無所見。受大蟲身婉轉腹行。諸情暗塞無所解知。百千狐狼牽掣食之。命終之後生畜生中。五千萬身受鳥獸形。還生人中聾盲瘖瘂。疥癩癰疽。貧窮下賤。一切諸衰以為嚴飾。受此賤形經五百身。後復還生餓鬼道中。餓鬼道中。遇善知識諸大菩薩。呵責其言。汝於前身無量世時。作無根罪。誹謗不信。如此罪人具眾罪者。身滿阿鼻獄。四支復滿十八隔中。此墮阿鼻獄。受諸苦惱不可具說。汝今應當發慈悲心。時諸餓鬼聞是語已。稱南無佛。稱佛恩力。尋即命終生四天處。生彼天已悔過自責。發菩提心。諸佛心光不捨是等。攝受是輩如羅睺羅。教避地獄如愛眼目。故起世經。世尊說偈言。

Furthermore, the Guanfo sanmei hai jing states: The Buddha told Ānanda: If there are sentient beings who kill their fathers, harm their mothers, or curse and revile their six relations—those who commit such offenses, at the time of death, in an instant, just like the time it takes a strong man to bend or stretch his arm, fall straight into the great Avīci Hell. A transformed King Yama loudly proclaims and commands: 'Foolish person, seed of hell! When you were in the world, you were unfilial to your parents, perverse, arrogant, and devoid of the Way. The place where you are now born is called the Avīci Hell.' Having spoken these words, he vanishes and is seen no more. At that time, the hell wardens drive the sinners from the lower compartments up to the upper compartments, traversing eighty-four thousand compartments, squeezing their bodies through until they reach the boundary of the iron nets; in this way a single day and night is completed. One day and night in the Avīci Hell is equivalent in sun, moon, and year counts of this Jambudvīpa to sixty small kalpas. Such a lifespan lasts for an entire great kalpa; for those who possess all five heinous offenses, their suffering of retribution fills a full five kalpas. Furthermore, there are sentient beings who violate the four grave prohibitions, vainly consume the offerings of the faithful, slander with wrong views, fail to recognize cause and effect, sever their study of prajñā, revile the Buddhas of the ten directions, steal the property of the Saṃgha, are licentious and dissolute without morality, rape and violate pure-precepted bhikṣuṇīs, sisters, and female relatives, know neither shame nor remorse, insult their close relations, and commit myriad evil deeds. For the retribution of this person's offenses, when his life is about to end, the knife-winds dismember his body. In an instant, his body becomes like iron flowers filling the eighteen compartments, each flower having eighty-four thousand petals, and at the tip of each petal, body, hands, and limbs are distributed across the individual compartments. The hell is not vast, yet this body is not small, completely filling this great hell, traversing eighty-four thousand great kalpas. When this Niraya is exhausted, they enter again into the eighteen compartments of the eastern direction, suffering pain as before; and likewise in the southern, western, and northern directions of this Avīci Hell, traversing eighteen compartments in each. Those who slander the Vaipulya sūtras, possess all five heinous offenses, disrupt the Saṃgha, defile bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs, and sever all good roots—such sinners who possess all these offenses have their bodies fill the Avīci Hell, their four limbs filling the eighteen compartments. This Avīci Hell burns only such sentient beings who are the seeds of hell. When the kalpa is about to end, the eastern gate opens, and outside the eastern gate, clear springs, flowing water, flowers, fruits, and groves of trees all appear together. When these sinners see this from the lower compartments, the fire in their eyes momentarily ceases; rising from the lower compartments, writhing and crawling on their bellies, they leap and run upward to the upper compartments, grasping knife-wheels with their hands. At that time, hot iron balls rain down from the sky. They run toward the eastern gate. When they reach the threshold of the gate, the rākṣasa hell wardens take iron forks in hand and stab them in the eyes; iron hounds bite their hearts, and they faint and die. Having died, they revive, and see the southern gate open, no different from before; and so it is likewise with the western gate and the northern gate. This period lasts for half a kalpa. Dying in the Avīci Hell, they are born in the Cold Ice Hell; dying in the Cold Ice Hell, they are born in the Dark Places, where for eighty million years their eyes see nothing, taking the bodies of large worms, writhing and crawling on their bellies, their senses darkened and blocked, understanding nothing, dragged and eaten by hundreds of thousands of foxes and wolves. After this life ends, they are born among animals, undergoing the forms of birds and beasts for fifty million lifetimes. They are born again among humans, deaf, blind, mute, afflicted with scabies, leprosy, and festering carbuncles, poor and base, adorned with every kind of misfortune; having endured these wretched forms for five hundred lifetimes, they are subsequently reborn in the realm of hungry ghosts (pretas). In the realm of hungry ghosts, they meet good spiritual friends, great bodhisattvas, who reproach them, saying: 'In your previous bodies, during immeasurable lifetimes, you committed groundless offenses, slandering and disbelieving. Sinners such as this who possess all offenses fill the Avīci Hell with their bodies, and their four limbs fill the eighteen compartments. Falling into this Avīci Hell, the afflictions and pains endured cannot be fully told. You must now give rise to the mind of loving-kindness and compassion.' When those hungry ghosts hear these words, they chant, 'Namo Buddhāya,' and invoke the power of the Buddha's grace. Immediately at the end of their lives, they are born in the realm of the Four Deva Kings. Having been born in that heaven, they repent their errors and reproach themselves, generating the bodhimind. The light of the Buddhas' minds does not abandon them; they gather and embrace such beings just as [the Buddha embraced] Rāhula, teaching them to avoid hell just as one cherishes one's own eyes. Therefore, in the Lokasthiti-sūtra (Qishi jing), the Bhagavat spoke in gāthā: