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(61) BRAHMA'S DISCIPLE CAN CREATE ALL THINGS


Brahmans say that the Great Brahma was both father of the world and creator of all things. One of the Great Brahma's disciples once said he also had the power to create things. He was too stupid to be wise.
To the great Brahma, he said, "I can create everything."
The Great Brahma replied, "Don't talk like that. You can't. Since you don't listen to me, I wonder how you do it."
After seeing what his disciple had created, the Great Brahma said, "The man's head that you have made is too big and the neck too thin. The hands are too long and the arms too bony. The feet are too small and the legs too fat. It looks like a Pisacah devil."
Through the Great Brahma's words, we should realize that human beings are created by their own deeds resulting from Karma and not by the power of the Great Brahma.
Buddha's preaching is not ambiguous. As they preach the Eightfold Noble Path, they cling neither to the view of total annihilation nor that of permanence. On the contrary, the heretics do cling to the view of annihilation and permanence. They cheat the world by performing ceremonies and creating images. What they preach really is not Buddhism.

61梵天弟子造物因喻
婆羅門眾皆言:「大梵天王是世間父,能造萬物。」造萬物主者有弟子,言我亦能造萬物,實是愚癡自謂有智。語梵天言:「我欲造萬物。」梵天王語言:「莫作此意,汝不能造。」不用天語便欲造物。梵天見其弟子所造之物,即語之言:「汝作頭太大,作項極小,作手太大,作臂極小,作脚極小,作踵極大,作如似毘舍闍鬼。」
以此義當知,各各自業所造,非梵天能造,諸佛說法不著二邊,亦不著斷亦不著常,如似八正道說法。諸外道見斷見常事已,便生執著,欺誑世間作法形像,所說實是非法。

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