[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大方便佛報恩經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156) › 3.41 # 大方便佛報恩經 3.41 大方便佛報恩經 3.41 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.41) 「爾時大王報夫人言：『未曾有也！吾不及汝。』夫人言：『貪恚所生，皆由嫉妬。諫惡以忍，諫怒以順。我從生已來未曾與物共諍，諸夫人者自生惱害。譬如有人夜行見杌，便起賊想，或起惡鬼之想。尋時驚怖，四散馳走，或投高巖，或覆水火，荊棘叢林傷壞身體。因妄想故，禍害如是。一切眾生亦復如是，自生自死，如蠶處繭，如蛾赴燈，無驅馳者。一切眾惡從妄想起，諸夫人者亦復如是。我今不應與彼群愚，起諸諍訟。』五百夫人即前禮鹿母夫人，自謝悔過，奉事鹿母，如蒙賢聖，如母姉妹，所養太子，如所生不異。 > "Then the great king said to the lady: 'It is unprecedented! I am not your equal.' The lady said: 'The arising of greed and anger is entirely due to jealousy. Admonish evil with patience; admonish wrath with compliance. Since my birth, I have never contended with anyone; the consorts brought affliction and harm upon themselves. For example, when someone walking at night sees a tree stump, they immediately conceive the thought that it is a thief, or they conceive the thought that it is an evil ghost. At once terrified, they flee in all directions, sometimes throwing themselves from high cliffs, or plunging into water or fire, or injuring their bodies in brambles and thickets. Due to false conceptualisation, disaster comes about in this way. All sentient beings are also like this: they are born of themselves and die of themselves, like a silkworm in a cocoon or a moth flying into a flame, with no one driving them. All evils arise from false conceptualisation; the consorts are also like this. I should not engage in dispute and contention with those foolish people.' The five hundred consorts then came forward, bowed to Lady Deer-Mother, apologised, and repented their faults. They served Deer-Mother as if honouring a worthy or holy one, and as a mother and elder sister. The princes they reared were no different from their own offspring. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.40) - [Next: 3.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.42) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156~en-mt.3.41) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [ཐབས་མཁས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་སངས་རྒྱས་དྲིན་ལན་བསབ་པའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.353.3.19) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.156.3.41) · Pramāṇa