[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [釋氏要覽](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127) › 3.186 # 釋氏要覽 3.186 釋氏要覽 3.186 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.3.186) 佛在逝多林。見地不淨。欲令樂福眾生。於勝福田植淨業故。佛即自執篲欲掃。時大聲聞見。皆執篲共掃。佛言凡掃。地有五勝利。一自心清淨。二令他心清淨。三諸天歡喜。四植端正業。五命終當生天上○阿含經云。佛教朱利槃特誦掃帚字。復教執掃帚。佛言汝誦此字。為目何等。然此掃帚。復名除垢。槃特作是思惟。垢者灰土瓦石也。除者清淨也。佛以此教誨我令思惟。結縛是垢。智慧是除。今可以智慧之帚除結縛垢。因此便成阿羅漢○增一經云。夫掃地有五事不得福。謂不知逆風。不知順風。不作聚不除糞。不淨潔○四分云。逆風掃不滅迹不除糞不復帚本處○正法念經云。若掃如來塔命終生意躁天身。香氣熏百由旬。 > When the Buddha was in the Jeta Grove, he saw that the ground was unclean. Wishing to cause living beings who delight in merit to plant pure karma in the supreme field of merit, the Buddha personally took a broom and wished to sweep. When the great śrāvakas saw this, they all took brooms and swept together. The Buddha said: 'Sweeping the ground has five supreme benefits: first, one's own mind becomes pure; second, it causes the minds of others to become pure; third, the devas are pleased; fourth, it plants karma of handsome appearance; fifth, at the end of life, one will be reborn in the heavens.' The Āgama sūtras state: 'The Buddha taught Cūḍapanthaka to recite the words 'broom' (sao-zhou), and also taught him to hold a broom. The Buddha said: "When you recite these words, what do they refer to? This broom is also named 'remover of dirt'." Panthaka contemplated thus: "Dirt refers to dust, earth, tiles, and stones; removal refers to purity. The Buddha instructed me with this to make me contemplate that fetters are dirt and wisdom is removal. Now I can use the broom of wisdom to remove the dirt of fetters." Because of this, he immediately became an arhat.' The Ekottarika-āgama states: 'Sweeping the ground has five things whereby one does not obtain merit: namely, not knowing against the wind, not knowing with the wind, not making heaps, not removing dung, and not making it clean.' The Dharmaguptaka states: 'Sweeping against the wind, not obliterating footprints, not removing dung, and not returning the broom to its original place.' The Saddharmasmṛtyupasthāna-sūtra states: 'If one sweeps a Tathāgata stūpa, at the end of life one will be born into a mind-pleasing deva body, and its fragrance will perfume a hundred yojanas.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.3.185) - [Next: 3.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.3.187) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127~en-mt.3.186) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.3.186](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2127.3.186) · Pramāṇa