Samyuktagama (Sanskrit fragments) 38.5

38.5

「諸比丘！譬如一器，有一處人，名為揵茨，有名鉢，有名匕匕羅，有名遮留，有名毘悉多，有名婆闍那，有名薩牢。如彼所知，我亦如是說。所以者何？莫令我異於世人故。如是，比丘！有世間法，我自知自覺，為人分別演說顯示，知見而說，世間盲無目者不知不見；世間盲無目者不知不見，我其如之何！

“Monks, take for example a vessel in a person’s dwelling that’s called a ghaṭī. Some call it a pātra, some call it a pipīla, some call it a jvāla, some call it a vistha, some call it a vacana, and some call it a śarāva. However they know it, I also thus speak. Why is that? It’s so I’m not set apart from worldly people.

Thus, monks, there’s a mundane rule of the world that I myself know and realize and that I discern, explain, and demonstrate for people. Knowing and seeing it, I say: ‘The world is blind, without eyes, and doesn’t know or see it.’ How am I like the world that’s blind, without eyes, and doesn’t know or see it?