佛說觀佛三昧海經 5.26

5.26

佛告阿難：「云何名五百億刺林地獄？刺林地獄者：八千由旬滿中鐵刺，一一刺端有十二劍，樹上復有大熱鐵鉗。世間自有愚癡眾生，惡口、兩舌、綺語、不義語，調戲無節枉說是非，說經典過、毀論義師。如此罪報命欲終時，咽燥舌乾，即作此念：『得一利刺刺頸出血，令眾脈間流注眾水不亦快乎！』作是念時，獄卒羅剎化作父母，手執月珠，珠頭生刺持用擬口，如水欲渧，罪人歡喜：『我所願者今已得果。』作是念已氣絕命終，如大電頃生刺林間。既生之後，獄卒羅剎手執鐵鉗拔舌令出，八十鐵牛有大鐵犁耕破其舌，刺林諸樹有風吹來撲打其軀，一日一夜六百生六百死。過是已後得生人中，脣咃面皺語言𡄓吃。如此罪人，體生諸創膿血盈流，經五百世人所惡見。過是已後，雖有所說人不信受，遇善知識發菩提心。」

The Buddha said to Ānanda: "What is meant by the hell of fifty billion thorny forests? As for the Thorny-Forest hell, it spans eight thousand yojanas, filled with iron thorns; at the tip of each thorn are twelve swords, and above on the trees are large, red-hot iron tongs. In this world there are foolish sentient beings who engage in harsh speech, divisive speech, frivolous speech, and unrighteous speech; they engage in unrestrained teasing, falsely proclaim right and wrong, speak of the faults of the scriptures, and disparage masters of scholastic debate. When such sinful retribution is about to bring about death, their throat parches and their tongue dries up, and they at once have this thought: 'If only I could obtain a sharp thorn to pierce my neck and draw blood, causing streams of water to flow through all my veins, would that not be pleasant?' As they have this thought, the rākṣasa hell-wardens transform themselves into the person's parents, holding in their hands a moon-pearl with a thorn growing at its tip, which they hold up toward his mouth as if water were about to drip. The sinner is delighted: 'What I wished for has now come to fruition!' Having had this thought, his breath is cut off and his life ends; in the time of a great flash of lightning, he is born amidst the thorny forest. After being born, the rākṣasa hell-wardens take iron tongs in their hands and pull out his tongue; eighty iron oxen with great iron plows plow and tear his tongue apart. Wind blows through the trees of the thorny forest, violently buffeting his body, so that in a single day and night he undergoes six hundred births and six hundred deaths. After this has passed, he gains rebirth among humans with hanging lips and a wrinkled face, his speech stammering and stuttering. Such a sinner has sores breaking out all over his body with pus and blood overflowing, and for five hundred lifetimes he is loathed by people. After this has passed, even if he speaks, people do not believe or accept it. Eventually, he encounters a kalyāṇamitra and generates bodhicitta."