諸經要集 5.55

5.55

如昔有樹提伽長者。造栴檀鉢。著絡囊中。懸高象牙杙上。作是言。若沙門婆羅門。不以梯杖能得者。即與之。諸內外道。知欲現神通。皆挑頭而去。賓頭盧聞是事。問目連言。實爾不。答言。實爾。汝師子吼中第一。便往取之。其目連懼佛教不肯取。賓頭盧即往其舍入禪定。便於坐上。伸手取鉢。依四分律。當時坐於方石。縱廣極大。逐身飛空。得鉢已還去。佛聞呵云。比丘為外道鉢。而於未受戒人前。現神通力。從今盡形擯汝。不得住閻浮提。於是賓頭盧。如佛教勅。往西瞿耶尼。教化四眾。廣宣佛法。閻浮提四部弟子。思見賓頭盧。白佛。佛聽還座。現神足故。不聽涅槃。勅令為末世四部眾作福田。其亦自誓。三天下有請悉赴。又阿育王經。海意比丘。從鑊乘空。為王說偈云。

For instance, of old there was the elder Jyotiṣka, who made a sandalwood bowl, placed it in an openwork net bag, hung it high on an ivory peg, and said: 'If any śramaṇa or brāhmaṇa can obtain it without using a ladder or staff, I shall give it to him.' The various Buddhist and non-Buddhist practitioners, knowing he wished to see supernormal powers, all shook their heads and walked away. When Piṇḍola heard of this, he asked Maudgalyāyana: 'Is it really so?' He replied: 'It is really so. You are foremost among those who roar the lion's roar; go and take it.' Maudgalyāyana feared the Buddha’s instruction and was unwilling to take it. Piṇḍola then went to his house and entered meditative absorption; right from his seat, he extended his hand and took the bowl. According to the Dharmaguptaka-vinaya, at that time he was sitting on a square rock of immense breadth, which followed his body and flew through the air; having obtained the bowl, he departed. When the Buddha heard this, he rebuked him: 'A monk, for the sake of a non-Buddhist’s bowl, has displayed supernormal power before an unordained person! From this day until the end of your life, you are expelled; you may not dwell in Jambudvīpa.' Thereupon, Piṇḍola, in accordance with the Buddha’s injunction, went to Western Aparagodānīya to teach and transform the fourfold assembly and broadly propagate the Buddha's Dharma. When the four groups of disciples in Jambudvīpa yearned to see Piṇḍola, they addressed the Buddha. The Buddha permitted his return to his seat, but because he had displayed supernormal faculties, he was not permitted to enter nirvāṇa, and was commanded to serve as a field of merit for the fourfold assembly of the latter age. He also made a vow himself: wherever invited in the three continents, he would go. Furthermore, in the Aśokāvadāna, the monk Samudra flew into the air from a caldron and spoke a verse for the king: