大方便佛報恩經 5.50

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爾時佛姨母憍曇彌比丘尼告一切比丘尼、式叉摩尼、沙彌尼、優婆夷及一切女人，而作是言：「佛法大利，一切功德，三種果報，唯有如來佛法海中乃具有之，一切眾生皆悉有分，而我等一切女人，如來不聽。以一切女人多諸疑惑，執著難捨。以執著故，使諸結業無量纏縛，癡愛覆心；覆心重故，愛水所沒，不能自出故；以二等智故，懈怠慢惰故，現身不能莊嚴菩提，獲得三十二相故；於生死中失轉輪聖王所有勝果，以十善法攝眾生故，亦失無上梵王之位；能為建立正法，勸發諮請，使一切眾生得利樂故；是故如來不聽女人樂為弟子。天魔、波旬及諸邪見一切外道，長夜惡邪，執著邪論，殘滅正法，毀佛法僧，是故如來不聽女人樂入佛法。我為一切諸女人故，三請如來，欲求佛法，如是至三，亦不聽許。時我不果所願，心懷悵恨，憂悲苦惱，即出祇桓，悲淚滿目。

At that time, the Buddha's maternal aunt, the bhikṣuṇī Gautamī, addressed all the bhikṣuṇīs, śikṣamāṇās, śrāmaṇerikās, upāsikās, and all women, saying: "The great benefit of the Buddha's Dharma, all its merits, and its three kinds of retribution are fully possessed only within the ocean of the Tathāgata's Buddha-Dharma. All sentient beings have a share in it, yet for all of us women, the Tathāgata did not give permission. This is because all women have many doubts and perplexities, and are attached and find it hard to let go. Because of attachment, their various fettering karmas bind them boundlessly, and delusion and craving cover their minds. Because the covering of their minds is heavy, they are submerged in the waters of craving and cannot emerge on their own. Because of their two-finger wisdom and because of their indolence and arrogance, in their present bodies they cannot adorn bodhi or attain the thirty-two marks. Within saṃsāra, they lose the superior fruition possessed by a wheel-turning sage king of gathering sentient beings with the ten virtuous dharmas, and they also lose the unsurpassed position of a Brahmā king who is able to establish the true Dharma and encourage, inspire, and beseech so that all sentient beings obtain benefit and joy. For this reason, the Tathāgata does not permit women who delight in being disciples. Māra Pāpīyān and all non-Buddhists with wrong views have, through the long night, harbored evil and crookedness, clinging to false doctrines, destroying the true Dharma, and defaming the Buddha, Dharma, and Saṅgha; for this reason, the Tathāgata did not permit women who delight in entering the Buddha-Dharma. For the sake of all women, I requested the Tathāgata three times, wishing to seek the Buddha-Dharma, and even up to three times he would not grant permission. At that time, when my wish was not fulfilled, I harbored grief and regret in my heart, sorrowful, sad, and distressed. I then left the Jetavana, my eyes filled with tears of sorrow.