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English version: He woke up. It happened that Venerable Yunqi (a famous monk of Yunqi Temple) came to the city. Thereupon, he led his family to earnestly request the master's presence. The master ordered a four-day sutra chanting ceremony to be held first. He went there on the last day. The patient felt as if he had seen it in a dream, and then recovered. In the early years of Tianqi (the reign of Emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty, 1621-1627), the price of mulberry leaves in Wujiang soared. A resident raised several baskets of silkworms, because he calculated that the profit from making silkworms into cocoons was not as much as the profit from selling mulberry leaves directly. So he buried the silkworms and loaded the mulberry leaves to sell in Huzhou. When the boat passed Taihu Lake, a large carp jumped into the boat. The man picked up the fish and hid it in the bow of the boat. When he arrived at the mulberry leaf shop, the owner saw blood on the mulberry leaves and asked him why. He replied that it was fish blood. The fish was still in the bow of the boat, and he could take it out to have a look. As a result, when he took it out, it turned out to be a human head. Everyone was terrified. He was pressed again, and he replied that there was really no other reason, he just wanted to make more money by burying silkworms and selling mulberry leaves. So everyone went to the place where he buried the silkworms, and when they dug it up, they found another corpse, which matched the head exactly. So he was reported to the government. In the end, he was sentenced to death. Alas, because of karma, he became a silkworm, and he could not avoid the pain of being boiled into cocoons, which was already very miserable. What's more, he buried them alive for meager profits, so that they could not live out their lives. Where is the human heart? No wonder his retribution came so quickly. My uncle, Jin Chicheng, served as the garrison commander of Ganzhou (now Ganzhou, Jiangxi). Because he went to the capital to see the emperor and returned home, he contracted malaria in the summer. He rested on the desk and fell asleep in a daze. He dreamed that the yamen servants were lined up on his left, and the monks were lined up on his right. An old man said to him, you originally came from monastic practice, can you turn back and take this path again? If you can, you can still protect your old mother, if you can't, your old mother will send you away instead. My uncle thought to himself, my mother is already eighty-four years old, how can I let her send me away instead? He immediately replied, I should turn back. Before he finished speaking, the servants dispersed. He followed the monks chanting Sanskrit and left. Suddenly, he felt a sense of loneliness and regret, and woke up sadly. Later, he told me about this in the tomb hut in Yangshan. But because he was greedy for worldly feelings, he still went to Ganzhou to take office. Not long after, he was promoted to Yandong Bingdao. He went home and died after being ill for three or four days. In the end, his eighty-year-old mother cried her eyes dry. Alas! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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。蝇头蜗角。迷人心志如此。世出世法。两皆负堕。亦可为青云路上人作永鉴也。 姑苏南濠街有一人。常作阴隶。每数日辄往直班。邻有一人语曰。能带我至阴间游戏乎。隶曰。可。汝但静卧室中。敕家人勿开户。我当带汝去。仍送汝回。邻人如命卧室中。隶即摄其魂同至府城隍庙前。嘱令住石牌楼下相待。自乃持文书入中庭去。邻人待久生厌倦心。见一大车从西过东。载四娼女并二男子。中一娼女原有旧情。以手招之遂登车同去。隶出庙觅邻人不见。转问旁人。知登车去。乃回阳急至傅门外一居民。家见有新产小猪七头。其一即邻人也。以手掷之。猪毙而魂忽不见。次于田岸见大赤蛇仰卧。即知邻人所变。乃打杀之。捏其魂归房。掷醒因问曰。汝同我游阴府颇适意乎。答曰。汝初置我于庙前石牌楼下。入庙经久不出。我方厌倦。幸旧识娼女邀我出傅门外。同至一舍相与饮食欢乐。忽有人夺我食。打我项。我怒而出。外困而偃息。复闻人呼曰。赤蛇赤蛇。以手攫我。我便惊醒。有何乐乎。隶笑语其故。黄洪江亲闻其事。乃发心学道(洪江亦予在家时善友)。 泉州庄奇显。癸丑科榜眼。年少嗜酒。忽一日饮于承天寺。醉后往藏经所。见有法师讲大佛顶经。遂大怒取案上经掷地。以脚踏之。又仆韦䭾像于 蝇头蜗角（比喻极微小的事物）。迷惑人的心志竟然如此之深，无论是世间法还是出世间法，都因此而堕落沉沦。这件事也可以作为那些有志于飞黄腾达的人一个永远的鉴戒。 姑苏（今江苏苏州）南濠街有一个人，经常做阴间的差役，每隔几天就要去阴间值班。他的邻居有个人对他说：‘你能带我去阴间游玩吗？’差役说：‘可以。你只要安静地待在卧室里，吩咐家人不要开门，我就可以带你去，并且送你回来。’邻居按照他的话，待在卧室里。差役就摄取他的魂魄，一同来到府城隍庙前，嘱咐他待在石牌楼下等候。自己拿着文书进入中庭去了。邻居等了很久，心生厌倦。看见一辆大车从西向东驶来，载着四个妓女和两个男子。其中一个妓女是他的旧相识，用手招呼他，于是他就上了车一同离去。差役从庙里出来，寻找邻居不见，转而询问旁边的人，得知他上了车走了。于是急忙回到阳间，来到傅门外一户居民家，看见有新生的七只小猪，其中一只就是他的邻居变的。差役用手掷打那只小猪，猪死了，邻居的魂魄忽然不见了。后来在田埂上看见一条大红蛇仰卧着，就知道是邻居变的，于是打死了蛇，捏着他的魂魄回到房间，把他弄醒，问道：‘你同我游阴府，觉得快乐吗？’邻居回答说：‘你开始把我安置在庙前石牌楼下，进入庙里很久不出来，我正感到厌倦。幸好旧相识的妓女邀请我出傅门外，一同到一户人家相与饮食欢乐。忽然有人夺我的食物，打我的脖子，我生气地跑了出来，在外困倦而倒下休息。又听见有人喊道：赤蛇赤蛇，用手抓我，我就惊醒了。有什么快乐可言呢？’差役笑着把事情的经过告诉了他。黄洪江亲耳听说了这件事，于是发心学道（黄洪江也是我在家时的好朋友）。 泉州（今福建泉州）的庄奇显，在癸丑年（清顺治十年，1653年）考中榜眼，年少时嗜好饮酒。有一天在承天寺饮酒，醉酒后到藏经楼，看见有法师在讲解《大佛顶经》，于是大怒，拿起桌上的经书扔在地上，用脚踩踏，又推倒了韦驮（佛教护法神）像。
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'Fly heads and snail horns' (idiom for trivial matters). To think they can delude people's minds to such an extent, causing both worldly and otherworldly pursuits to fall into ruin. This can also serve as a perpetual warning to those who aspire to high positions. In Nanhao Street, Gusu (present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu), there lived a man who worked as a clerk in the underworld, going to work there every few days. A neighbor said to him, 'Can you take me to the underworld for fun?' The clerk said, 'Yes. Just stay quietly in your bedroom and tell your family not to open the door, and I will take you there and bring you back.' The neighbor did as he was told, staying in his bedroom. The clerk then took his soul to the front of the City God Temple, telling him to wait under the stone archway. He himself took the documents and went into the central courtyard. The neighbor waited for a long time and became bored. He saw a large cart coming from west to east, carrying four prostitutes and two men. One of the prostitutes was an old acquaintance, who beckoned him, so he got on the cart and left with them. The clerk came out of the temple, looking for the neighbor but couldn't find him. He asked the people nearby and learned that he had left on the cart. So he hurried back to the world of the living and came to a resident's house outside Fumen Gate, where he saw seven newborn piglets, one of which was his neighbor transformed. The clerk threw something at the pig, and the pig died, and the neighbor's soul suddenly disappeared. Later, he saw a large red snake lying on its back on the bank of a field, and he knew it was the neighbor transformed, so he killed the snake, grabbed his soul, returned to the room, and woke him up, asking, 'Did you enjoy your trip to the underworld with me?' The neighbor replied, 'You first placed me under the stone archway in front of the temple, and you went into the temple for a long time without coming out, and I was getting bored. Fortunately, an old acquaintance, a prostitute, invited me out of Fumen Gate, and we went to a house together to eat and drink and have fun. Suddenly, someone snatched my food and hit me on the neck, and I angrily ran out, feeling tired and falling asleep outside. Then I heard someone shouting, 'Red snake, red snake,' and grabbing me, and I woke up in fright. What fun was there?' The clerk laughed and told him what had happened. Huang Hongjiang heard about this incident firsthand and resolved to study the Dao (Huang Hongjiang was also a good friend of mine when I was at home). Zhuang Qixian of Quanzhou (present-day Quanzhou, Fujian) passed the imperial examination in the year Guichou (1653 AD) and became the second scholar, and he was fond of drinking when he was young. One day, he was drinking at Chengtian Temple, and after getting drunk, he went to the Sutra Repository and saw a Dharma master lecturing on the *Śūraṅgama Sūtra*. He became very angry, picked up the sutra from the table and threw it on the ground, trampled on it with his feet, and also knocked down the statue of Weituo (Skanda, a Buddhist guardian deity). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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地。后数月以脚踢一厮。误中柱上。脚指破裂成异疮。渐肿至身。楚痛异常。见韦驮诘责而死。 泉州张翰冲。丙辰进士也。任金坛知县。将行取一日坐堂。忽有缁流径诣公堂语曰。我与汝前生道友。见汝有难。特来救汝。汝可罢官同入山学道。不唯免难且出生死。张以为诞。缁遂历指其少时事数种。皆妻拏所不知者。张乃骇谔。欲如其言。竟为妻子所阻。缁寻别去。张赴京考选。甫至都门。脚忽生异痈。着靴不能脱。割靴调理。不愈而死。 晋江许兆馨。戊午举人。往福宁州谒本房座师。偶过尼庵。悦一少尼。遂以官势胁之强污焉。次日忽自啮舌两断而死。 晋江王某。以文名诸生间。携酒饮承天寺。入藏经堂。见少年沙弥某端坐阅经。强令饮酒。沙弥不从。复搂抱调弄之。归家三日。忽掌口自骂。家人不知所谓。半日啮舌而死。 孝丰县监生杨龚。所买鸟铳八把。养猎狗数只。随处损伤物命。一日欲往庄取稻。合家人俱得梦云。十年造业。恶报至矣。杨不信。复带铳到庄。见野鸡。以铳打之。误中己头。破脑而死。 泉州徐氏女。名三姐。年十六未嫁。忽得病。父母为觅医。女垂泪告父母曰。吾必死。无用医矣。盖吾前生为某家妇。夫宠一婢。吾以妒故谋杀之。今在冥官处诉。我 现代汉语译本： 某地，后来几个月，有人用脚踢一个仆人，不小心踢到柱子上，脚趾破裂形成奇怪的疮，逐渐肿胀到全身，疼痛异常，看见韦驮（佛教护法神）前来责备而死。 泉州人张翰冲，是丙辰年（具体年份需要查对，例如可能是明朝天启六年（1626年）或清朝顺治十三年（1656年））的进士。担任金坛县知县。将要进京等待选官时，有一天坐在公堂上，忽然有个僧人直接来到公堂说：‘我与你前世是道友，见你有难，特来救你。你可辞官一同入山学道，不仅能免除灾难，而且能了脱生死。’张翰冲认为这是荒诞之言。僧人于是历数他小时候的几件事，都是妻子儿女所不知道的。张翰冲非常惊讶，想要听从他的话，最终被妻子儿女所阻止。僧人随即离去。张翰冲赴京参加选官，刚到都城门口，脚上忽然生出奇怪的痈疮，穿着靴子无法脱下，割开靴子进行调理，没有好转就死了。 晋江人许兆馨，是戊午年（具体年份需要查对，例如可能是明朝万历四十六年（1618年）或清朝顺治十五年（1658年））的举人。前往福宁州拜见本房的座师（科举考试的主考官）。偶然路过一座尼姑庵，喜欢上一个年轻的尼姑，于是凭借官势胁迫她，强行奸污了她。第二天忽然自己咬断舌头而死。 晋江人王某，以文章出名于诸生之间。携带酒到承天寺饮酒，进入藏经堂，看见一个少年沙弥（小和尚）端坐着阅读经书，强迫他饮酒。沙弥不听从，又搂抱调戏他。回家三天后，忽然掌掴自己的嘴巴，自己骂自己，家人不知道他在说什么。过了半天，咬断舌头而死。 孝丰县监生杨龚，购买了八把鸟铳，养了数只猎狗，到处伤害生灵。有一天想要去庄上取稻谷，全家人都做了同一个梦，梦中说：‘十年造业，恶报就要来了。’杨龚不相信。又带着鸟铳到庄上，看见野鸡，用鸟铳打它，不小心打中了自己的头，脑浆迸裂而死。 泉州徐家的女儿，名叫三姐，十六岁还没有出嫁。忽然得了病，父母为她寻找医生。女儿流着眼泪告诉父母说：‘我必死无疑，不用找医生了。因为我前世是某家的媳妇，丈夫宠爱一个婢女，我因为嫉妒就谋杀了她，现在在冥官（阴间的官员）那里告我。’