一個人來拜見悉達多，也想要跟他一樣的修學，悉達多很欣慰，終於有人願意學習，日子一天天過去，悉達多偶而會看見跟他學習的人，有時候會完全變成狼的樣子，那樣子連他都畏懼，但他始終不知道該怎麼面對變成狼的人?他受的教導都說：動物也可以有神聖情操的。他一直相信狼在他身邊久了，一定會被他同化完全變成人。
人變成狼以後出外覓食，牠很清楚變成狼後牠要的吃的食物，不是悉達多給的那些聖旨，牠要吃食物，而且是很多很多的食物。
悉達多吃聖旨為食，雖然也會感到饑餓，但他已習慣常常處於饑餓的狀態，在他的世界裡，不曾想過不吃聖旨的人是怎麼活著的？他一直沒空去想，人皮膚有好多種顏色，動物的樣種更是數不清，這一切會活動的人、動物，真的都吃聖旨就可以活著？
他吃下去的食物完全改變他的腦力思考，左右他的眼睛、耳朵，他實在不知道不吃聖旨維生的人、動物要吃什麼過活？
半寄
Siddhartha was visited by a man who was keen on engaging in spiritual practice, and asked to become his disciple. Pleased at the prospect of finally having an eager and motivated protégé, he readily agreed. After some time, however, Siddhartha discovered that his disciple occasionally took on the appearance of a fearsome wolf, leaving him at a loss as to how he should deal with this most unusual situation. However, he had read in the scriptures that even animals could have noble sentiments, so he decided to keep him as his disciple, confident that his good example would rub off and that one day he would stop turning into a wolf.
Whenever the disciple turned into a wolf, he would go out hunting for the kind of food he liked to eat, which was very different from the kind Siddhartha gave him to eat---and he indulged to his heart’s content.
Siddhartha only ate shengzhi, and although doing so sometimes left him feeling hungry, he had already become quite accustomed to it. In fact, living on shengzhi had become so much a part of his life that he had never even considered what it would be like to do otherwise. It had never occurred to him that living beings are extremely diverse in their ways of life, and that it’s simply not possible for all of them to eat shengzhi.
His diet had changed his way of thinking and perceiving, such that he had begun to believe that shengzhi is the only food in the entire world.
Master Ban Ji
Translated by Ken Kraynak
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