（三）以梨打頭破喻
The Parable of Smashing a Head with a Pear
昔有愚人頭上無毛，時有一人以梨打頭，乃至二三悉皆傷破，時此愚人默然忍受不知避去。傍人見已而語之言：「何不避去，乃住受打致使頭破？」愚人答言：「如彼人者憍慢恃力癡無智慧，見我頭上無有髮毛謂為是石，以梨打我頭破乃爾。」傍人語言：「汝自愚癡，云何名彼以為癡也？汝若不癡，為他所打，乃至頭破不知逃避？」比丘亦爾，不能具修信、戒、聞、慧，但整威儀以招利養，如彼愚人被他打頭不知避去，乃至傷破反謂他癡，此比丘者亦復如是。
Once there was a foolish man who had no hair on his head. One day, someone hit him on the head with a pear, striking him two or three times until his scalp was bruised and broken. Yet the foolish man silently endured it and did not think to move away.
A bystander who saw this said to him, "Why didn't you avoid it? Why did you just stand there and let yourself be beaten until your head was injured?"
The foolish man replied, "That person is arrogant, relies on his strength, and is foolish and lacking in wisdom. Seeing that I have no hair on my head, he thought it was a stone and kept hitting me with a pear until my head was broken like this."
The bystander said, "You are the foolish one—how can you call him foolish? If you weren’t foolish, why would you let yourself be beaten until your head was injured without even trying to avoid it?"
So it is with some monks. They do not fully cultivate faith, morality, learning, and wisdom, but merely maintain an outward appearance of dignity to attract offerings. Like that foolish man who let himself be beaten on the head without avoiding it until he was injured, and then called the other person foolish—such monks are just the same.