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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.

　　当时就有小孩子，看到虚空里头有一个白胡子的老人，将一口袋一口袋的东西从天空倒下来；倒下来，就变成蝗虫了。蝗虫往地上一落，落到地上就有一尺多厚那么多的蝗虫。这么一落，不是就一个地方一尺多厚，而是几百里都有一尺多厚的蝗虫，你说这蝗虫有多少！人吃蝗虫，你说奇怪不奇怪！这真是共业啊！回来把这个蝗虫煮熟了，本来是蝗虫，拿到桌子上正要吃的时候，就变成人粪了；蝗虫自己就变成人粪，你说奇怪不奇怪？人再饿，也不敢吃自己的粪。不等着吃，就变成人的屎了，啊！业障就这么厉害！所以就有很多人逃难，由河南到西京长安八百里路，每一天在路上死的人不知有多少，这些都是饿死的。怎么饿死的？他越饿就越笑，在路上一笑，他就死了。这叫「同分妄见」，这是共业所感的报应。

　　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.

　　什么叫「别业妄见」？好像世界上有些人目有赤眚，就是在眼睛生有红色翳子，晚间看灯光时，就看见灯光四边有圆形的光晕。因为你眼睛有毛病，所以看见灯就生了变化了，那圆影里边花花绿绿的，青黄赤白黑什么色都有。你说这个圆影是真的？还是假的？这就好像现在有的人本来眼睛没有病，他自己要把它弄出毛病来。弄出什么毛病呢？就是看东西看得不清楚了，生出一种妄见，虚幻不实的那个见，啊！看墙上也变了色，五颜六色，花花绿绿的。

　　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.

　　我以前见过一个人，他大概不知吃了LSD(迷幻药)？还是其他的幻觉丸？他一边看着墙，一边哈哈地这么笑得不停止，我说：「你为什么这么笑？」他说：「你看！墙壁上有很多五光杂色！」你看！这和那个赤眚的人是不是一样呢？本来他眼睛没有毛病，他吃了这种药把自己弄得颠颠倒倒的，看这个墙也变了颜色了，你说这是真的？假的？那么他就认为这是真的，一般没有吃这个药的人就认为他是在说梦话，说呓语。上面的例子是「别业妄见」。

　　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.

　　什么又是「同分妄见」呢？同分妄见，就是所造的业是相同的，大家都有一样的业，可是这种业虽然是一样，但人的面貌、人的环境、行为都各有不同。虽然不同，可是同造一样的业，在这个不同的身分、不同的地方、不同的行为，又聚集到一起了，这叫同分妄见。这种见是由「业」而发生的，大家造什么业就受什么果报，又聚集到一起。所谓「善一伙，恶一群」，什么人就找什么人，什么人也遇着什么人，什么业也就遇见什么样的果报。在不同地方造的业，在同一个地方受果报，因为「人以类聚，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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