百喻經 4 婦詐稱死喻 The Wife Plays Dead
4 The Wife Plays Dead
Once there was a stupid man who was very much in love with his beautiful wife. She was unfaithful to him; however, and took a lover. Burning with deviant passion, she instructed an old woman, saying, 「After I leave, put a dead woman』s corpse in my room and tell my husband I am dead.」 The old woman waited until the husband was not at home and then placed a woman』s corpse inside the house. When he returned, she told him his wife was dead.
The husband saw the corpse and believed it to be his wife. He grieved and wept and prepared much firewood and oil for the cremation. He gathered the remains in a bag and carried them with him day and night.
The wife, meanwhile, grew tired of her lover and returned home, saying to her husband, 「I am your wife.」
The husband replied, 「My wife died long ago. Why do you falsely claim to be my wife?」 He refused to believe her even after her repeated explanations.
This is like those of externalist ways who learn deviant teachings and whose minds give rise to delusion and attachment. They claim that the teachings are true and they refuse to change. Afterwards even when they hear the orthodox teaching, they do not believe, accept, or uphold it.
4婦詐稱死喻
譯文
過去有位愚人，他的妻子生得端正，愚人心內很是愛重她。女人卻沒有貞潔忠信之情，中途與他人有了私通。邪淫的心意熾盛起來，欲追隨情夫而去，舍離自己的丈夫。于是就對一個老太婆密語道：「我離去之後，你可攜來一具死女人的尸體，安著于屋中，對我丈夫說我已死。」老太婆此後瞅準那丈夫不在家的時機，將一具死尸放置在他家中。待到那丈夫回家來了，老太婆告訴他道：「你妻子已經死了。」那丈夫即便前去查看，以為真是自己的妻子，便哀哭著，心情很是難受，積集了許多木柴和油，將死尸燒了，拾取了骨灰，用囊盛了，晝夜挾在懷中。女人後來對情夫起了厭倦之心，便回家來了，對她丈夫說：「我是你的妻子。」丈夫答道：「我妻子已死多時了，你是誰呢?亂說是我的妻子。」女人一而再、再而三地說，丈夫依然如故，不肯相信。
就如那些外道，聽聞了其他的邪說，心內產生了迷惑，就執著在這點上了，以為是真理，這種心念便永遠無法改轉過來，雖然後來聽聞了佛法正教，也不肯信而受持奉行。
原典
昔有愚人，其婦端正，情甚愛重。婦無貞信，後于中間，共他交往。邪淫心盛，欲逐傍夫，舍離己婿。于是密語一老母言：「我去之後，汝可齎①一死婦女尸安著屋中，語我夫言，云我已死。」老母于後伺其夫主不在之時，以一死尸置其家中。及其夫還，老母語言：「汝婦已死。」夫即往視，信是己婦，哀哭懊惱，大積薪油，燒取其骨，以囊盛之，晝夜懷挾。婦于後時心厭傍夫，便還歸家，語其夫言：「我是汝妻。」夫答之言：「我婦久死，汝是阿誰?妄言我婦。」乃至二三，猶故不信。
如彼外道，聞他邪說，心生惑著，謂為真實，永不可改，雖聞正教，不信受持。
注釋
①齎：攜。
源流
《鴦崛摩羅經》卷二：譬如有愚夫，見雹生妄想，謂是琉璃珠，取已執持歸，置之瓶器中，守護如真寶。不久悉融消，空想默然住，于余真琉璃，亦復作空想。(《中華大藏經》第二十三冊第五十七頁)
解說
假作真時真亦假。