杀生造业亲人减寿/Retribution for Killing and Breaking a Vow
2020-10-05

南宋时期,河南平舆县南函头村有位张老汉,以捕鸟为业,他只有一个年纪很小的儿子。一天他儿子突然死去了。张老汉自念老无所倚,每日恸哭不绝。埋葬后第三天,老汉正在儿子坟边哀哭时,听到墓中有呻吟声,老汉惊曰:吾儿还魂矣!打开坟墓一看,儿子果然复活了。


张家小儿复活后说,死时被人摄往冥司之后,他苦苦哀求冥官自己爹娘已老,请求还魂为爹娘养老送终,尽为人子女的孝道后再来冥间,死而无憾。冥官颇为可怜他说道:今日放你回去,你要告诉你父亲,若能不干打猎捕鸟的杀生之事,则可延长你的寿命!张老汉听闻此语,立刻将捕鸟网等各种猎具尽数焚毁,又带著儿子入寺供佛。


寺中有一位俗姓吕的僧人,年不到四十,仪表殊伟。张家小儿即上前问他道:你也还魂了吗?吕姓僧说:我何曾死过?张家小儿便说,我在冥间时见过你,只见你被绑在殿角铜柱上,铁链系足,狱卒往来棒击腋下,鲜血淋漓,我被冥官放归时,曾问狱卒,你何故在此受罪?狱卒乃说:他答应为斋主念诵经文,然而却有很多遗漏不念,故受此恶报。吕姓僧听闻后大为惊骇,原来他腋下得了漏疮病,已有三年了,张家小儿是不可能知道他得病之事的。吕姓僧从此便洁居一室,每日补诵经文,三年后,腋下漏疮方好。


从这则历史记载中,我们可以看到杀生行为真的会造成业力,造了业就肯定会有报应,可能是以让亲人减寿的形式遭报,也有可能是以其他形式遭报;同时冥间对人的孝道也是很重视的,张家小儿就是很重孝道才获得冥官怜悯还魂的;吕姓僧人作为一个佛门弟子,答应给别人念经,却又不兑现,因此遭到了冥罚,幸亏后来改过弥补了。


Retribution for Killing and Breaking a Vow


During the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an older man named Zhang in Nanhantou Village, Pingyu County, Henan Province. He used to make a living by catching birds and had only one young son. One day his son died unexpectedly. Zhang thought he had nobody to rely on and cried by the grave every day. On the third day after the burial, while Zhang was crying, he heard groans in the tomb. Zhang was shocked and said: My son is back! When he opened the grave, his son was resurrected.

 

After the resurrection, Zhang's son said that after his death, somebody led him to Hell. He begged Hell's official, saying that his parents were old, asking for going back to the human world to conduct filial piety to his parents, and he would die with no regret after completing their funerals. 


The Hell official pitied him and said:” I will let you go back today. You must tell your father that if he can stop hunting and killing birds, I would prolong your life!” On hearing this, Zhang immediately burned all his hunting gear, such as bird netting, and took his son to the temple to worship the Buddha.

 

There was a monk named Lu in the monastery, who was less than forty years old and had a great presence. On seeing the monk, Zhang's son stepped forward and asked him: “Were you also resurrected?” The monk said: “How did I ever die?”

The young man said: “In the underworld, I saw you were tied to a bronze pillar on the corner of the palace, with iron chains around your feet, and the jailer struck your armpits so they were bleeding. When the underworld officer released me, I asked the jailer why you suffer here. The jailer said that you promised to recite the scriptures for the benefactor, but there were many omissions, so you suffered evil retribution in this form.”


The monk was shocked when hearing that. It turned out that he had a leaky sore under his arm. It had been for three years, and the young man couldn't possibly know about his illness. So, the monk cleaned up one room, reciting the scriptures every day, and three years later, the sore under his arm disappeared.

 

From these two stories, we can see that the act of killing causes karma, and there will be retribution if karma exists, retribution may come through shortening the relative's life or in other forms. At the same time, the underworld also stresses filial piety toward parents. 


Zhang's little son got the Hell officer's mercy because he demonstrated filial piety towards his parents. 


As a Buddhist disciple, the monk named Lu promised to recite the scriptures for others but failed to fulfil his vow, and thus he received punishment. Fortunately, he corrected the matter later on.

 

 

Translated by Joseph Wu

Edited by Helen 


https://visiontimes.com/2020/09/07/retribution-for-killing-and-breaking-a-vow.html

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