（四）婦詐稱死喻
(4) The Woman Who Faked Her Death
昔有愚人，其婦端正，情甚愛重；婦無直信，後於中間共他交往，邪婬心盛欲逐傍夫捨離己婿，於是密語一老母言：「我去之後，汝可齎一死婦女屍安著屋中，語我夫言，云我已死。」老母於後伺其夫主不在之時，以一死屍置其家中。及其夫還，老母語言：「汝婦已死。」夫即往視，信是己婦，哀哭懊惱，大𧂐薪油燒取其骨，以囊盛之晝夜懷挾。婦於後時心厭傍夫便還歸家，語其夫言：「我是汝妻。」夫答之言：「我婦久死，汝是阿誰妄言我婦？」乃至二三猶故不信。如彼外道聞他邪說心生惑著，謂為真實永不可改，雖聞正教不信受持。
Once upon a time, there was a foolish man whose wife was very beautiful, and he loved and cherished her deeply. But his wife was unfaithful. Later, she began an affair with another man, and her lust grew so strong that she wanted to leave her husband and run off with her lover. So she secretly said to an old woman: "After I leave, you take a dead woman's corpse and place it in my house. Tell my husband that I have died."
Later, when the husband was away, the old woman put a dead corpse inside the house. When the husband returned, the old woman said, "Your wife has died." He went to look, and believing it was indeed his wife, he wailed in grief and distress. He piled up firewood and oil, burned the body to collect the bones, and put them in a pouch that he carried with him day and night.
In the meantime, the wife grew tired of her lover and came back home. She said to her husband, "I am your wife." But he replied, "My wife died long ago. Who are you to falsely claim to be my wife?" Even when she repeated herself two or three times, he still refused to believe her.
Just so are those outside the true path. When they hear false teachings from others, they become confused and attached, taking them as absolute truth that can never change. Even when they hear the correct teachings, they refuse to believe or accept them.