諸經要集 8.67

8.67

又雜阿含經云。爾時世尊告諸比丘。過去世時。有一鳥。名曰羅婆。為鷹所捉飛騰虛空。於空鳴喚言。我不自覺忽遭此難。我坐捨離父母境界而遊他處。故遭此難。如何今日。為他所囚不得自在。鷹語羅婆。汝當何處自有境界而得自在。羅婆答言。我於田耕壟中。自有境界。足免諸難。是為我家父母境界。鷹於羅婆起憍慢言。放汝令去。還耕壟中。能得脫不。於是羅婆得脫鷹爪。還到耕壟大塊之下。安住止處。然復於塊上欲與鷹鬪。鷹則大怒。彼是小鳥敢與我鬪。瞋恚極盛峻飛直博。於是羅婆入於塊下。鷹鳥飛勢臆衝堅塊。碎身即死。時羅婆鳥深伏塊下。仰說偈言。

Furthermore, the Saṃyuktāgama states: At that time the Bhagavat told the bhikṣus: In the past, there was a bird named Lava. Captured by a hawk, it flew soaring into the sky, crying out in the air: 'Unaware, I suddenly met with this disaster! Because I departed from the domain of my parents to roam elsewhere, I encountered this disaster. Why today am I imprisoned by another, lacking freedom?' The hawk said to the Lava: 'Where was your own domain where you had freedom?' The Lava replied: 'In the furrows of plowed fields, I have my own domain sufficient to escape all disasters; that is the domain of my parents.' The hawk became arrogant toward the Lava and said: 'I release you to go back to the plowed furrows; can you escape or not?' Thereupon the Lava escaped the hawk's talons, returned to the large clods of earth in the plowed furrows, and settled in its dwelling. But on the clod it wished to fight the hawk. The hawk was enraged: 'That little bird dares to fight me!' With raging wrath, it dived swiftly straight down. Thereupon the Lava entered beneath the clod. The rushing force of the hawk's flight crashed its chest against the hard clod, shattering its body and killing it instantly. Then the Lava bird, deeply hidden beneath the clod, looked up and spoke a verse: