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What kind of inversion is this! Since I have merits, you should all follow me and become monks. Worldly friendships are mostly unstable like the behavior of dancers, without certainty. If one cannot abandon them with a firm mind, then with rational actions, in the forest of asceticism, with the principle that one should not obstruct with kinds of desires, lure them with extremely gentle words, go to the forest of asceticism oneself, and with diligence in virtuous deeds, perfect discipline and asceticism, thereby practicing meditation. In this way, even for a single word of a person who proclaims himself virtuous without having virtues, those who have virtues will not abandon it, let alone not allowing it to diminish after having obtained any virtue? Like this, proclaiming oneself virtuous with names such as monk, layperson, practitioner, realized one, etc., examine oneself, thinking that people expect this of me, I cannot deceive them. One must adorn oneself with those virtues, and feel ashamed until one possesses them, know that this is the conduct of a Bodhisattva. ༈ Again, in the past, in the city of Varanasi (ancient Indian place name, now Benares), there was a king named Brahma-given, who was rich and wealthy. There was a consort named Incomparable Mother, who was beautiful and beloved by the king. At that time, on the south side of the King of Mountains, the Snow Mountain, the Blessed One transformed into a peacock king named Golden Light. It had a graceful body and limbs, a jewel-like beak, and five hundred attendants following it. Once, the peacock king crowed over the city of Varanasi in the middle of the night, and the consort Incomparable Mother, who was staying on the roof, heard it and said to the king: Whose is this sound that is so pleasing and loving? The king said: Goddess, I have not seen it either, but I have heard that there is a peacock king named Golden Light on the south side of the Snow Mountain, and I have heard that its sound is beautiful and pleasing. The consort said: Please bring that peacock king here. The king said: How can one see that which flies in the sky, consort
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于是（她）说道：如果我没有见到孔雀王，我就会死去。国王因为对无双妃子生起了爱恋，就说：我将停止狩猎和捕鸟，暂时住下。于是对狩猎和捕鸟的人们说：你们用网捕捉到那孔雀王，然后到这里来。如果能抓到它，那就好，如果抓不到，你们所有人的性命都将丧失。然后那些狩猎和捕鸟的人们因为害怕丧命，就拿着鸟网和陷阱，前往雪山的南面，在那孔雀王居住的地方张网设陷，但是孔雀王凡是看到的地方，网都破裂，陷阱都断掉，即使是七天的时间里，精疲力尽，也没有抓到那孔雀王。然后孔雀王对他们生起了慈悲心，说道：以谷物为生的你们，为何在这片地方精疲力尽地停留？那些人回答说：请孔雀王知晓，国王梵授（梵天所赐）这样命令并派遣我们，我们因为害怕丧命，所以才这样努力。孔雀说道：我无法被陷阱和网捕捉。国王梵授如果想要见我，就请把城市打扫干净并用装饰品来庄严。七天后的白天，带着具有四支军队的队伍来到这里，我就会去那里。那些人听了之后，就像对国王梵授禀告的那样，国王把整个城市都装饰起来，用七宝装饰的马车，带着军队前往雪山的南面。那显现为金色的孔雀王就坐在珍宝的马车上。当它的声音响起时，国王和军队都非常高兴，以极大的敬意对待它，然后前往波罗奈斯城（Varanasi，今印度瓦拉纳西）。当孔雀的声音在那个城市的门口响起时，声音传遍了整个城市。所有居住在那里的人都非常高兴，为了观看而聚集而来。在那里，（国王）对无双妃子说：这孔雀会自己来到你这里。于是（她）感到高兴和尊敬。国王用鲜花和水果来供养那孔雀王。在其他时候，国王因为一件事情而忙碌，谁来照顾孔雀的
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Then (she) said: If I do not see the Peacock King, I will die. The king, having developed affection for the unparalleled queen, said: I will stop hunting and bird-catching, and stay for a while. Then he said to the hunters and bird-catchers: You capture that Peacock King with nets, and then come here. If you can catch it, that's good, but if you can't, all of you will lose your lives. Then those hunters and bird-catchers, fearing for their lives, took bird nets and traps, and went to the south side of the snow mountain, where they spread nets and set traps in the place where the Peacock King lived, but wherever the Peacock King looked, the nets broke and the traps were cut off, and even after seven days of exhaustion, they could not catch the Peacock King. Then the Peacock King felt compassion for them and said: You who live on grain, why are you staying in this place exhausted? Those people replied: Please know, Peacock King, that King Brahma-datta (Given by Brahma) has ordered and sent us in this way, and we are working hard in this way because we are afraid of losing our lives. The peacock said: I cannot be caught by traps and nets. If King Brahma-datta wants to see me, please clean the city and decorate it with ornaments. Come here on the seventh day with an army of four divisions, and I will go there. After listening to this, those people reported to King Brahma-datta as they had been told, and the king decorated the entire city and went to the south side of the snow mountain with a chariot decorated with seven treasures and an army. The Peacock King, who appeared as gold, sat on the precious chariot. When its voice sounded, the king and the army were very happy and treated it with great respect, and then went to the city of Varanasi (present-day Varanasi, India). When the peacock's voice sounded at the gate of that city, the sound spread throughout the city. All the people living there were very happy and gathered to watch. There, (the king) said to the unparalleled queen: This peacock will come to you by itself. Then (she) was happy and respectful. The king offered flowers and fruits to the Peacock King. At other times, the king was busy with something, who would take care of the peacock?
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心想或许能侍奉孔雀王。王妃无有比（དཔེ་མེད་མ་）既贤明又智慧广大，心想她定能做到，（佛）说：“天女，你像我一样侍奉这孔雀王吧。”她也如是，用鲜花和果实来侍奉。之后，有一段时间，王妃无有比（དཔེ་མེད་མ་）爱上了别的男子，约定的时间在孔雀居住的庭院里，孔雀为那人说法，那人因贪欲而舍弃邪淫，然后离开了。王妃心想：我的行为孔雀知道了，这孔雀王会说人语，如果告诉梵天施（རྒྱལ་པོ་ཚངས་བྱིན་）国王，我一定会被杀死。这样想着，就给孔雀王有毒的饮食，孔雀王因此变得更加美丽动人。王妃心生疑虑之时，孔雀王说：“我知道你爱上了别的男子，即使给我有毒的食物，你也无法杀死我。”王妃无有比（དཔེ་མེད་མ་）吐血，得了重病而死，转生到号叫地狱。孔雀王安乐解脱，回到自己的住所，为众生说法。当时的梵天施（ཚངས་པས་བྱིན་）国王就是比丘舍利子，当时的王妃无有比（དཔེ་མེད་མ་）就是现在的婆罗门女幻母。” 又，过去无量劫之前，有位国王名为车乘女（ཤིང་རྟ་ནི་མོ་），统治着八万四千小国，后来他生了一个儿子，名为智慧光（ཤེས་རབ་འོད་），那时世尊便转生于此。他具有聪慧的头脑，超越他人，因此被立为王储。之后，父王去世，当要为王子举行登基大典时，王子对大臣们说：“我不能当国王，如果我对这些不守规矩的众生处以杀戮等刑罚，我会有过失。如果国民能够行持十善业，我才会当国王。”大家都说好，说：“你来做见证。”于是为他举行了登基大典。他下令要行持十善业，这时魔
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Thinking that perhaps he could serve the peacock king. Queen Matchless (དཔེ་མེད་མ་) was both wise and of great intelligence, thinking that she would surely be able to do it, (the Buddha) said, "Goddess, serve this peacock king as I have done." She did so, serving with flowers and fruits. Then, after some time, Queen Matchless (དཔེ་མེད་མ་) fell in love with another man, and the appointed time was in the garden where the peacock lived. The peacock taught the Dharma to that man, and the man, out of desire, abandoned his evil deeds and left. The queen thought, "The peacock knows about my actions. This peacock king speaks human language, and if he tells King Brahma-given (རྒྱལ་པོ་ཚངས་བྱིན་), I will surely be killed." Thinking this, she gave the peacock king poisoned food and drink, and the peacock king became even more beautiful and attractive. When the queen became suspicious, the peacock king said, "I know that you have fallen in love with another man, and even if you give me poisoned food, you will not be able to kill me." Queen Matchless (དཔེ་མེད་མ་) vomited blood, became seriously ill, and died, and was reborn in the Hell of Wailing. The peacock king was liberated in peace, returned to his own abode, and taught the Dharma to all beings. The king Brahma-given (ཚངས་པས་བྱིན་) of that time was the disciple Shariputra, and the queen Matchless (དཔེ་མེད་མ་) of that time is now the Brahmin girl Maya." Again, in the past, beyond immeasurable eons, there was a king named Chariot Woman (ཤིང་རྟ་ནི་མོ་), who ruled over eighty-four thousand small kingdoms. Later, he had a son named Wisdom Light (ཤེས་རབ་འོད་), and at that time, the Blessed One was born there. He had an intelligent mind and surpassed others, so he was appointed as the crown prince. Later, when the father king passed away and they were about to hold the enthronement ceremony for the prince, the prince said to the ministers, "I cannot be king. If I inflict punishments such as killing on these unruly beings, I will have faults. If the people of the country can practice the ten virtuous actions, then I will be king." Everyone said, "That's good, you be the witness." So they held the enthronement ceremony for him. He ordered them to practice the ten virtuous actions, and at that time, the demon
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国王生起嫉妒心，写了一封责骂信给所有的小国，信中说：“以前做善事也没有明显的征兆，从今以后行持十不善吧。”所有的人都不相信，就去禀告国王。国王感到奇怪，惊呼：“我没有写过这样的话，为什么会变成这样？”国王亲自去查看人们是否和以前一样。在路上，魔王让国王听到一个在燃烧的火焰中痛苦挣扎的人的声音。国王问他：“你有什么罪过？”那人回答说：“我以前让这些人行持十善，所以现在我非常痛苦。”国王说：“如果劝人行善会遭受这样的痛苦，那是不可能的。你劝人行善，那些人得到快乐的果报了吗？”那人说：“他们是得到了，只有劝人行善的我变成了这样。”国王听了非常高兴，说：“如果其他人得到善的果报，我受苦也没有后悔。”说完，那个魔立刻消失了。国王到各个地方去，向所有的人民宣扬十善，赞叹行善的功德，所有的人都一心向善。那时，国王变成了具有金轮等七宝的转轮王，四大部洲都被安置在善法之中。像这样，自己安住于十善，也劝他人行持十善，所以现在成佛的时候，脚底有千辐轮的相。这样说。 又，以前所有的商队首领，名叫救和善成，每个人都有四万商人的眷属。善成喜欢出离，所以在仙人那里出家，最终现证了独觉的菩提。那些商人没有见到善成，就开始寻找他，但没有找到。所有的商队首领都对救这样说，救说：“我去寻找吧。”于是带着八万商人四处寻找，看到了那个独觉，就说：“你为什么把商人们
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The king became jealous and wrote a letter of rebuke to all the small kingdoms, saying, "Even though I have done good deeds in the past, there are no obvious signs, so from now on, practice the ten non-virtues." Everyone disbelieved and reported it to the king. The king was surprised and exclaimed, "I have not written such words, why has it become like this?" The king himself went to see if the people were the same as before. On the road, the demon king made the king hear the voice of a person struggling in pain in a burning fire. The king asked him, "What is your offense?" The man replied, "I used to make these people practice the ten virtues, so now I am very painful." The king said, "If encouraging people to do good deeds will suffer such pain, it is impossible. Did those who you encouraged to do good deeds receive the fruit of happiness?" The man said, "They did receive it, only I who encouraged them to do good deeds became like this." The king was very happy to hear this and said, "If others receive the fruit of goodness, I have no regrets even if I suffer." After saying this, that demon immediately disappeared. The king went to various places, proclaimed the ten virtues to all the people, and praised the merits of doing good deeds, and all the people were devoted to doing good deeds. At that time, the king became a wheel-turning king with the seven treasures such as the golden wheel, and all the four continents were placed in the good Dharma. In this way, he himself abided in the ten virtues and also encouraged others to practice the ten virtues, so now when he becomes a Buddha, there is the sign of a thousand-spoked wheel on the soles of his feet. So it is said. Also, in the past, all the caravan leaders, named Savior and Well-Accomplished, each had a retinue of forty thousand merchants. Well-Accomplished liked to renounce, so he became a monk at the hermitage of a sage, and eventually manifested the Bodhi of a Pratyekabuddha. Those merchants did not see Well-Accomplished and began to search for him, but could not find him. All the caravan leaders said this to Savior, and Savior said, "I will search for him." So he took eighty thousand merchants and searched everywhere, saw that Pratyekabuddha, and said, "Why did you leave the merchants