諸經要集 8.67

8.67

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: