时间：12/13/2025 12/14/2025
地点：星河禅修中心
主讲：黄云全
佛法修行
为度人而破戒的焰光菩萨
很久以前，有个一心求菩萨道的人，名字叫焰光。他清心寡欲，摆脱了世俗种种名利烦恼，独自在深山中修行已经四百二十多万年了。如今他修行已满，于是安然地走出森林，来到人世间。
他走啊走，下午时到了沙竭国境。他看到街上充满着人，人们在街上忙着各自的事情，但是这么大的沙竭国竟然连一间佛寺也没有。
焰光菩萨来到一家陶器铺前，见里面有各式各样的陶器，五光十色，精致美观，便停下来观赏。
「这位顾客，要买陶器吗？」一声清脆的嗓音在他耳边响起。
焰光菩萨抬头一看，只见一个美女站在他面前，忙回答：
「多谢老板，我只是看看。这陶器真不错呀！」
「买几个回家用吧！很方便的。」女人笑得像朵花似的。
「我家很远，带着陶器走路不方便，还是不买了。」焰光菩萨说完就准备离开。
「不买也行，你就拿一个去玩玩吧！」那女子开玩笑似的挡住去路，脸上红扑扑的，一心缠住不让他走。
「我怎么能白要这么好的东西？」焰光菩萨说。
「放心！我不要你的钱。」说完那女子便塞给他一个大陶罐。
「这怎么行？」焰光菩萨一看，那陶罐可是其中最值钱的，连忙拒绝。
「只要你喜欢，我什么都舍得给你。」女子说着就将门关上，转过身来，脸上的笑意更加甜蜜。
焰光菩萨看着天色就要暗了，着急地说：
「女老板，我得赶路，你不能强留我这个修行人呀！」
「什么女老板？这里没有女主人，我是主人的女儿，专门在这里卖陶器的。你说修行的人是什么？我只知道你是美男子。」美女说完就拉着焰光菩萨的衣服往室内的床上拖。
「不行！我已经受戒四百多万年了，我不能破戒！我是行善求佛的人，哪能做这事？」焰光菩萨紧抱着屋柱不放。
女子被拒绝后，恼羞成怒，开始哭泣嚎叫，竟然在菩萨面前脱光自己的衣服，想用美妙动人的身体打动菩萨。谁知焰光菩萨依然抱着屋柱，一眼都不看她。
「你算什么行善求佛之人！」绝望使女子疯狂了，她高声叫着：
「我要自虐至死！让你做个见死不救的菩萨。」说完就在身上乱抓，抓出道道血痕。她还嫌不够，又抓起一只陶器摔在地上，捡起锋利的陶片在身上乱割，口中骂着：
「你这个十恶不赦的坏人，你好好看着我，我死了你就高兴了！」
女子不停的哀叫，焰光菩萨被逼得走投无路，只得大发善心，决定破戒救人，于是放开屋柱，长叹一声说：「别折磨自己了，我答应就是。」
那女子听了立即拋下碎片，破涕为笑，扑上来搂住菩萨。
「等等！待我向佛许了愿，就跟你到室内去。」
菩萨说完就离开那女子七步，对天许愿：
「尊贵的佛陀啊！今天我不忍见死不救，只得破戒救人，满足这女子的愿望，让她欢喜一场。下辈子我甘愿到地狱去受苦，但愿佛菩萨慈悲怜悯我。」
那女子见他许完愿，立刻上前挽住菩萨的手臂往房间里走。
三个月后，那女子心满意足，不再以死相逼了。
因为违背了梵行，焰光菩萨因此多苦修了十二年，也因为这十二年的苦行让菩萨意外地度过一场劫难。
十二年后，焰光菩萨寿终升到梵天之上，那女子因为使菩萨度过劫难，死后也升到梵天之中。
佛陀说：「你们知道吗？那苦苦修行，却破戒救人的焰光菩萨，就是我的前生，那美丽的女子就是瞿夷佛的前生啊！」
Date: 12/13/2025 12/14/2025
Location: Star River Meditation Center
Teacher: Yunquan Huang
Dharma Talk
The Bodhisattva Flame-Radiance Who Broke the Precepts for the Sake of Saving Others
Thus have I heard:
In ages long past, there was one who aspired with single mind to the Bodhisattva Path. His name was Flame-Radiance (Yen-guang). Pure in heart and free from desire, he had abandoned all worldly fame and gain, dwelling alone in the deep mountains for more than four million two hundred thousand years. Having completed his practice, he came forth peacefully from the forest and entered the world of men.
As he journeyed, he came to the land of Śākya. There, in the city streets, he beheld multitudes of people, yet not a single monastery was to be seen.
Passing by a shop of earthen wares, he paused to look upon the pots and vessels, fair and finely made.
A woman’s voice sounded at his side:
“Honored sir, will you buy a vessel?”
Looking up, he beheld a woman of striking beauty. He answered:
“I thank you, but I only look. These vessels are fine indeed.”
The woman smiled:
“Then take one for your use. It will serve you well.”
The Bodhisattva said:
“How may I take such a thing without offering payment?”
But the woman pressed a costly jar into his hands, saying:
“Do not trouble. I ask no money. If you like it, I gladly give it.”
So speaking, she closed the door of the shop, her smile growing ever more alluring.
The Bodhisattva, seeing the day draw to dusk, grew anxious and said:
“Good woman, I must be on my way. Do not detain me, for I am one who keeps the holy precepts.”
But she laughed and said:
“What care I for precepts? You are but a handsome man.”
So saying, she seized his robe, seeking to draw him into the inner chamber.
The Bodhisattva clung firmly to a pillar, declaring:
“I have upheld the precepts for over four million years. How can I break them now? I seek the Way of the Buddha—how can I commit such a deed?”
The woman, enraged at his refusal, cast off her garments and threw herself upon the ground, crying aloud:
“You claim to be a holy man, yet you let me die before your eyes! Behold, I shall destroy myself, and you shall be guilty of my death.”
Seizing shards of pottery, she cut her flesh and bled, wailing:
“Cruel man! You rejoice in my suffering!”
The Bodhisattva, pressed to the utmost, was moved with great compassion. He released the pillar, sighed deeply, and said:
“Cease your torment! I consent.”
The woman at once cast aside the shards, her tears turning to laughter, and embraced him.
The Bodhisattva said:
“Wait. Let me first make a vow before the Buddha.”
Then stepping aside seven paces, he raised his hands to the sky and vowed:
“O Blessed Buddha! Today, unable to endure seeing one perish before me, I break the precepts to save her. In my next life, may I fall into hell as the fruit of this act. May the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas look upon me with pity.”
Having spoken, he returned, and the woman drew him within.
For three months she pressed upon him, until at last her mind was satisfied and she ceased to threaten her own life.
Because he had broken the precepts, Flame-Radiance Bodhisattva endured twelve further years of bitter austerity. Yet through that hardship he was delivered from a great calamity, and his vow remained firm.
At the end of his life, he ascended to the Brahmā Heaven. And that woman too, because she had been the cause of his passing beyond disaster, was reborn in the Brahmā Heaven.
The Blessed One said:“Know you this? That Bodhisattva Flame-Radiance, who broke the precepts in compassion to save a life—that was I in a former birth. And that woman was the former life of the Buddha Kauṇḍinya.”
