时间：01/03/2026 01/04/2026
地点：星海禅修中心
主讲：净诚
佛法修行
贪着触欲的祸害
一日，世尊为比丘们讲述自己过去的本生故事：久远以前，波罗㮈国的山中住着一位仙人。春天时分，他在澡盘中小便时，正好看见两只鹿在交会，心中起了淫心，精液便流进澡盘里。
后来，母鹿喝了澡盘中的水，当下便有了身孕。怀胎满月后，母鹿回到仙人的草庵旁生产，当它看见所生的孩子身形似人，便将孩子留给仙人后，就离开了。
仙人出门见到这个孩子，头上顶着一支鹿角、双脚也像鹿蹄，由于过去的因缘，仙人知道这是自己的儿子，于是将他留下来抚养。随着孩子渐渐长大，仙人殷勤教导他各种学问，使他通达十八种经典；又教他坐禅、修习四无量心，于是，他得到了五种神通，也成了仙人，因头顶一支鹿角，故称一角仙人。
有一次，一角仙人上山时遇到大雨，山路泥泞湿滑，他的双脚难以站稳，不慎跌倒，不但摔破了净水瓶，自己的脚也受伤了。他生气地捡起破水瓶盛水，咒诅让天空不再下雨。由于仙人的福德之力，诸天龙神便不再降雨，国境之内，五谷不生，果物干枯，百姓贫穷困乏，生活难以为继。
国王为此忧愁苦恼，召集群臣商议降雨的对策。一位明理的大臣说：「听说在山中有位一角仙人，因为鹿足行走不便，上山时不慎跌伤了脚。当时他生气地咒诅，让此地十二年不下雨。」国王思索道：「如果十二年都不下雨，国家就要灭亡了！人民也不复存在！」于是宣告招募：「若有人能让一角仙人失去神通，使他归顺我国，我愿将国土分他一半，与他共同治理国家。」
国中有一位名叫扇陀的女子，容貌端正，举世无双。她应募前来，询问道：「这位仙人是人？还是非人？」众人回答：「他是人，是一位仙人所生。」扇陀说：「如果是人，我就能破坏他的神通。」说完，扇陀就拿金盘盛满珍贵的宝物，对国王说：「我会骑在这位仙人的脖子上回来！」
扇陀随即向国王要了五百辆车乘，载着五百位美女；又请求了五百辆鹿车，满载各种欢喜丸──这些丸子是以多种药材调制而成，彩绘装饰得像各种瓜果；同时还带了许多颜色清澈、味道如同清水的大力美酒。随后，她们披上树皮，穿着草衣，装扮成仙人的模样在山林间行走，并在一角仙人的草庵旁，也搭了一座草庵，就此住了下来。
一天，一角仙人外出游行时，见到这座草庵，女子们纷纷出来迎接，供养上好的香、花，让仙人大为欢喜。她们以软语问候仙人，邀请他进入房中，坐在舒适的床席上，并奉上清澈的「净水」与鲜美的「瓜果」。
一角仙人吃饱喝足后，对她们说：「我从出生以来，从来没吃过这么美味的果子，也没喝过这么甘甜的清水！」女子们回应：「这是因为我们一心行善，感得上天实现我们的心愿，赐给我们这些美果和甘泉。」仙人再问：「为什么你们的肌肤如此丰润光泽？」女子们说：「就是因为吃了这些美果、喝了这些甘泉，才能如此啊！」
女子们对仙人说：「您何不住下来呢？」仙人回答：「当然可以住下来！」女子们提议：「我们可以一起沐浴！」仙人也同意了。碰触到女子们柔软的双手，仙人便动了欲心；再与她们一同沐浴，欲心转增，便有了淫欲的行为。仙人顿时失去神通，天空也下起了大雨。
接下来的七天七夜，她们让仙人尽情享用美食。七天之后，所有美酒、瓜果都吃完了，女子们改以山泉、野果供养仙人，然而味道并不鲜美。仙人再向她们索求先前的美食，扇陀回答：「已经吃完了！」又说：「我们可以一起出发，在不远的地方就能找到这些美食。」仙人说：「就照你的意思。」便和扇陀一同上路。
走到离城不远处时，扇陀假装累倒在路中，说道：「我太累了，走不动了！」仙人说：「既然走不动，就骑到我的脖子上吧，我背着你走！」
扇陀早已事先派人禀告国王：「请大王来看看我的成果。」国王于是下令准备车马，亲自出城观看。此时，果真看到扇陀骑在一角仙人的脖子上进城，国王惊讶地问：「你是怎么办到的？」扇陀回答：「我用了方便之计。现在一角仙人就像凡人一般，再也没有神通了。」国王下令让仙人住在城中，恭敬供养，让他尽享五欲之乐，还封他为大臣。
仙人住在城中不久，身体日渐消瘦，他思念着禅定的安乐，厌倦了世俗的欲望。国王问道：「您为何不快乐？为何身体日渐消瘦？」仙人回答：「我虽然在这里享受五欲之乐，心中却时常怀念山林间闲静的生活，无法忘怀仙人们游历的地方。」
国王心想：「如果强行违背他的心志，他会非常痛苦，痛苦到极点就会死去。我本是为了解除旱灾，如今目的已经达成，为何还要强留他呢？」于是就让他回去了。一角仙人回到山中精进修道，不久后，又恢复了五种神通。
世尊告诉比丘们：「当时的一角仙人，就是我的前身；女子扇陀，则是耶输陀罗。当时她用欢喜丸迷惑我，那时因未断尽烦恼，所以被欲望所迷惑。如今烦恼已漏尽，是绝对不可能再被迷惑了！」
Date: 01/03/2026 01/04/2026
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Jason
Dharma Talk
The Perils of Attachment to Sensual Contact
One day, the World-Honored One related to the bhikṣus a story from one of His former lives. Long ago, in the mountains of the Kingdom of Bārāṇasī, there lived an ascetic.
In the springtime, while urinating into a bathing vessel, he happened to see two deer copulating. Lust arose in his mind, and his semen flowed into the vessel. Later, a doe drank the water from the vessel and immediately conceived.
When the term of pregnancy was complete, the doe returned to the vicinity of the ascetic’s hermitage to give birth. Upon seeing that the newborn had a human-like form, the doe left the child with the ascetic and departed.
When the ascetic came out and saw the child—with a single deer’s horn on his head and hooves like those of a deer—he understood, through past causal connections, that this was his own son.
He therefore kept the child and raised him. As the child grew up, the ascetic diligently instructed him in various branches of learning, enabling him to master the eighteen classes of scriptures.
He also taught him seated meditation and the cultivation of the Four Immeasurable Minds. As a result, the youth attained the five kinds of supernormal powers and himself became an ascetic. Because he had a single horn on his head, he was known as the One-Horned Ascetic.
On one occasion, when the One-Horned Ascetic went up into the mountains, he encountered heavy rain. The mountain paths were muddy and slippery, and his feet could not gain firm footing.
He accidentally fell, breaking his water vessel and injuring his foot. In anger, he picked up the broken vessel, filled it with water, and uttered a curse that the sky should cease raining.
By virtue of his ascetic merit, the devas, nāgas, and spirits no longer caused rain to fall. Within the kingdom, crops failed to grow, fruits withered, and the people became impoverished and destitute, finding it difficult to sustain their lives.
The king was deeply troubled by this and summoned his ministers to deliberate on ways to bring about rain.
A wise minister said, “It is said that in the mountains there is a One-Horned Ascetic who, because his deer-like feet make walking difficult, injured himself when climbing the mountain. In his anger, he uttered a curse that this land would have no rain for twelve years.”
The king reflected, “If there is no rain for twelve years, the kingdom will perish, and the people will be wiped out!” He therefore issued a proclamation: “If anyone can cause the One-Horned Ascetic to lose his supernormal powers and submit to our kingdom, I am willing to give him half of my realm and rule the country together with him.”
In the kingdom there was a woman named Śaṇḍā, whose appearance was upright and incomparable in the world. She responded to the call and asked, “Is this ascetic a human being or a non-human?”
The others replied, “He is human, the son of an ascetic.” Śaṇḍā said, “If he is human, then I can destroy his supernormal powers.” Having said this, she filled golden trays with precious treasures and said to the king, “I will return riding on this ascetic’s neck.”
Śaṇḍā then asked the king for five hundred carts to carry five hundred beautiful women. She also requested five hundred carts drawn by deer, loaded with various ‘Delight Pills’—pills compounded from many medicinal substances and painted and decorated to resemble different kinds of melons and fruits.
In addition, she brought large quantities of potent fine wine, clear in color and tasting like pure water. They then draped themselves in tree bark, wore grass garments, and disguised themselves as ascetics, wandering through the forests. Near the One-Horned Ascetic’s hermitage, they built another grass hut and took up residence there.
One day, when the One-Horned Ascetic was traveling about, he saw this hermitage. The women came out to greet him, offering excellent incense and flowers, which greatly delighted him.
They addressed him with gentle words, invited him into the hut, seated him on a comfortable couch, and offered him clear “pure water” and delicious “melons and fruits.”
After he had eaten and drunk his fill, the ascetic said, “Since my birth, I have never eaten such delicious fruits or drunk such sweet water!” The women replied, “Because we wholeheartedly practice good deeds, heaven has fulfilled our wishes and bestowed upon us these fine fruits and sweet springs.”
The ascetic then asked, “Why is your skin so plump and lustrous?” The women answered, “It is precisely because we eat these fine fruits and drink this sweet water that we are so.”
The women said to the ascetic, “Why don’t you stay here?” The ascetic replied, “Certainly, I can stay.” The women then suggested, “We can bathe together.” The ascetic agreed.
When he touched the women’s soft hands, lust arose in his mind; and when he bathed together with them, his desire increased further, leading to sexual conduct. At that moment, the ascetic immediately lost his supernormal powers, and rain began to fall from the sky.
For the next seven days and seven nights, the women allowed the ascetic to indulge freely in fine food and drink. After seven days, all the wine, fruits, and delicacies were exhausted.
The women then offered him mountain spring water and wild fruits, but their taste was not pleasant. The ascetic asked again for the former delicacies. Śaṇḍā replied, “They have all been used up,” and added, “We can set out together—before long we will find such foods again.”
The ascetic said, “So be it,” and set out with Śaṇḍā. When they reached a place not far from the city, Śaṇḍā pretended to collapse on the road from exhaustion, saying, “I am too tired to walk any further!” The ascetic said, “If you cannot walk, then ride on my neck, and I will carry you.”
Śaṇḍā had already sent word to the king in advance: “Please, Your Majesty, come and see my achievement.” The king then ordered carriages and horses to be prepared and personally went out of the city to observe. Indeed, he saw Śaṇḍā riding on the One-Horned Ascetic’s neck as they entered the city.
The king asked in astonishment, “How did you manage to do this?” Śaṇḍā replied, “I employed skillful means. Now the One-Horned Ascetic is just like an ordinary person; he no longer possesses any supernormal powers.”
The king ordered that the ascetic be lodged in the city and respectfully supported, allowing him to fully enjoy the pleasures of the five sensual desires, and even appointed him as a minister.
After living in the city for some time, the ascetic’s body gradually wasted away. He longed for the bliss of meditative concentration and grew weary of worldly desires.
The king asked him, “Why are you unhappy? Why is your body becoming increasingly emaciated?” The ascetic replied, “Although I enjoy the pleasures of the five desires here, my heart constantly yearns for the tranquil life of the forests and cannot forget the places where ascetics once roamed.”
The king reflected, “If I force him to act against his own will, he will suffer greatly; and if his suffering reaches an extreme, he may die. My original purpose was to put an end to the drought, and now that goal has been achieved, why should I detain him any longer?” He therefore allowed him to return.
The One-Horned Ascetic went back to the mountains and diligently cultivated the path; before long, he regained the five kinds of supernormal powers.
The World-Honored One then told the bhikṣus, “At that time, the One-Horned Ascetic was my former self, and the woman Śaṇḍā was Yaśodharā. At that time, she used the Delight Pills to delude me, and because the afflictions had not yet been completely eliminated, I was led astray by desire. Now that the afflictions have been entirely exhausted, it is absolutely impossible for me to be deluded again.”
