Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 263.4

263.4

爾時，佛告諸比丘：「我以知見故，得諸漏盡，非不知見。云何以知見故，得諸漏盡，非不知見？謂此色、此色集、此色滅；此受、想、行、識，此識集、此識滅。不修方便隨順成就，而用心求：『令我諸漏盡，心得解脫。』當知彼比丘終不能得漏盡解脫。所以者何？不修習故。不修習何等？謂不修習念處、正勤、如意足、根、力、覺、道。譬如伏鷄，生子眾多，不能隨時蔭餾，消息冷暖，而欲令子以觜、以爪啄卵自生，安隱出㲉，當知彼子無有自力，堪能方便以觜、以爪安隱出㲉。所以者何？以彼雞母不能隨時蔭餾，冷暖長養子故。

It was then that the Buddha addressed the monks, “It was because of knowing and seeing that I reached the end of the contaminants, not because of not knowing or seeing. How was it because of knowing and seeing that I reached the end of the contaminants and not because of not knowing or seeing? I mean: ‘This is form, this is the formation of form, and this is the cessation of form. This is feeling … conception … volition … awareness, this is the formation of awareness, and this is the cessation of awareness.’

“[Suppose] one doesn’t cultivate this method or follow through with it, and they apply their mind to this goal: ‘Let my contaminants come to an end and my mind be liberated.’ You should know that that monk will never be able to reach the end of the contaminants or be liberated. Why is that? Because he doesn’t train himself. What doesn’t he train himself in? He doesn’t train in the abodes of mindfulness, right effort, spiritual abilities, faculties, powers, factors of awakening, or the path.

“He’s like a brooding hen that lays a clutch of eggs but can’t keep them warm at the proper times. She takes breaks when it’s too cold or hot, but she wants her chicks to use their beaks and claws to hatch themselves by pecking at their eggshells. You should know that her chicks won’t have the strength to break out of their shells with their beaks and claws. Why is that? Because that mother hen wasn’t able to keep them warm at the proper times when it was too cold or hot.”