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　　The swarm of locusts blocked the sun, darkening the sky. There were so many that one could scoop them up with a small net to take home and eat. Having nothing else to eat, the people thought of eating locusts: The locusts had eaten their crops, and so now they were going to eat the locusts.

　　當時就有小孩子，看到虛空裏頭有一個白胡子的老人，將一口袋一口袋的東西從天空倒下來；倒下來，就變成蝗蟲了。蝗蟲往地上一落，落到地上就有一尺多厚那麼多的蝗蟲。這麼一落，不是就一個地方一尺多厚，而是幾百裏都有一尺多厚的蝗蟲，你說這蝗蟲有多少！人吃蝗蟲，你說奇怪不奇怪！這真是共業啊！回來把這個蝗蟲煮熟了，本來是蝗蟲，拿到桌子上正要吃的時候，就變成人糞了；蝗蟲自己就變成人糞，你說奇怪不奇怪？人再餓，也不敢吃自己的糞。不等著吃，就變成人的屎了，啊！業障就這麼厲害！所以就有很多人逃難，由河南到西京長安八百裏路，每一天在路上死的人不知有多少，這些都是餓死的。怎麼餓死的？他越餓就越笑，在路上一笑，他就死了。這叫「同分妄見」，這是共業所感的報應。

　　At that time, there was a child who saw a white-bearded old man in the sky pouring down bag after bag of stuff that turned into locusts.

　　The locusts kept falling until they covered the ground a foot thick for several hundred miles around. Imagine how many locusts there were! Just think how strange it was-people were eating locusts. It was truly a case of collective karma! They caught the locusts, cooked them, and set them on the table, but when they were about to eat them, the locusts turned into human excrement. No matter how hungry people are, no one would eat his own excrement. Before they could be eaten, the locusts turned into excrement! That”s how terrible karmic retribution can be!

　　Therefore, many people fled from Henan to Chang”an, a distance of about 270 miles. Countless people starved to death along the way. What is it like to die of starvation

　　 The hungrier they felt, the more they laughed, and they died laughing on the road. That”s known as "commonly held false views." It”s a case of retribution resulting from collective karma.

　　什麼叫「別業妄見」？好像世界上有些人目有赤眚，就是在眼睛生有紅色翳子，晚間看燈光時，就看見燈光四邊有圓形的光暈。因爲你眼睛有毛病，所以看見燈就生了變化了，那圓影裏邊花花綠綠的，青黃赤白黑什麼色都有。你說這個圓影是真的？還是假的？這就好像現在有的人本來眼睛沒有病，他自己要把它弄出毛病來。弄出什麼毛病呢？就是看東西看得不清楚了，生出一種妄見，虛幻不實的那個見，啊！看牆上也變了色，五顔六色，花花綠綠的。

　　What is the false view associated with inpidual karma

　　 It can be compared to people who have cataracts in their eyes. When they look at a lamp at night, they see circular reflections around them. Because their eyes are diseased, their perception of the lamp is distorted and they see a halo of rainbow colors encircling the lamp. Are these reflections real or illusory

　　It”s like some people right now with perfectly good eyes who want to distort their own vision. How do they do this

　　 They cause themselves to not see clearly, they view things falsely and have an illusory perception of them. They may look at a blank wall and see the colors of a rainbow there.

　　我以前見過一個人，他大概不知吃了LSD(迷幻藥)？還是其他的幻覺丸？他一邊看著牆，一邊哈哈地這麼笑得不停止，我說：「你爲什麼這麼笑？」他說：「你看！牆壁上有很多五光雜色！」你看！這和那個赤眚的人是不是一樣呢？本來他眼睛沒有毛病，他吃了這種藥把自己弄得顛顛倒倒的，看這個牆也變了顔色了，你說這是真的？假的？那麼他就認爲這是真的，一般沒有吃這個藥的人就認爲他是在說夢話，說呓語。上面的例子是「別業妄見」。

　　Once I met a person who had taken LSD or some other hallucinogen. He stared at the wall and couldn”t stop laughing. I asked him what he was laughing about, and he said, "Look! Beautiful colors of the rainbow on the wall!" Wasn”t he just like the person with cataracts

　　 His eyes were fine to begin with, but after taking that drug, he became confused and saw the wall changing colors.

　　Would you say his state was real

　　 He certainly thought it was, but people who hadn”t taken the drug thought he was delirious. The above examples illustrate the false view associated with inpidual karma.

　　什麼又是「同分妄見」呢？同分妄見，就是所造的業是相同的，大家都有一樣的業，可是這種業雖然是一樣，但人的面貌、人的環境、行爲都各有不同。雖然不同，可是同造一樣的業，在這個不同的身分、不同的地方、不同的行爲，又聚集到一起了，這叫同分妄見。這種見是由「業」而發生的，大家造什麼業就受什麼果報，又聚集到一起。所謂「善一夥，惡一群」，什麼人就找什麼人，什麼人也遇著什麼人，什麼業也就遇見什麼樣的果報。在不同地方造的業，在同一個地方受果報，因爲「人以類聚，物以群分。」

　　What is meant by "commonly held false views"

　　 This refers to the situation where many people create the same kind of karma. Although their karma is similar, they may look different, behave differently, and come from different envir…

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