[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) › [妙法蓮華經文句](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718) › 1.121 # 妙法蓮華經文句 1.121 妙法蓮華經文句 1.121 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.121) 且約乞食明抖擻者，乞易得生喜、難得生瞋，得好則愛、得惡則憂，憂喜依色而起即色陰，受此憂喜即受陰，取憂喜相即想陰，憂喜即是行陰，分別憂喜即識陰。憂喜即意法二入三界，界入陰即苦諦，我能乞食，計有我、無我，以乞為道以乞為實，如是諦當。讚喜毀瞋我能被呵即疑不了為癡，是為十使，歷三界四諦，即八十八使名集諦。若識乞食中四倒相似相續覆故謂常，適意謂樂，動轉所作覆故謂我，薄皮覆故謂淨，識四覆、無四倒，勤遮二惡、生二善，修四定根力覺道，是為道諦。於乞食中不計我則癡滅，癡滅故愛滅，愛滅故瞋滅，瞋滅故不自舉則慢滅，慢滅故被呵則無疑，無我故我見滅，我見滅故邊見滅，不執是道則戒取滅，不計為實故見取滅，不邪執故邪見滅，此十滅故則八十八滅，八十八滅故子縛滅，子縛滅故果縛滅，果縛滅故二十五有滅，是為滅諦。若於乞食中，不見四真諦，是故久流轉生死大苦海；若能見四諦，則得斷生死。生死既盡已，更不受諸有，是為乞食中抖擻觀慧；衣法、住處法亦復如是。是三藏頭陀也。 > Now, explaining dhūta in terms of begging for food: when begging, getting \[food\] easily gives rise to joy, while difficulty in getting it gives rise to anger; getting fine \[food\] brings longing, while getting bad \[food\] brings distress. Distress and joy arise in dependence on form, which is the aggregate of form; feeling this distress and joy is the aggregate of sensation; taking the signs of distress and joy is the aggregate of perception; distress and joy itself is the aggregate of volitional formations; discriminating distress and joy is the aggregate of consciousness. Distress and joy are the two sense bases of mind and dharmas, and the three realms of elements. The realms, sense bases, and aggregates are the truth of suffering. \[Thinking,\] "I can beg for food," calculating self and non-self, taking begging as the path, and taking begging as the real—such assertions, joy at praise, anger at censure, \[or thinking\] "I can be rebuked," which is doubt, and not understanding, which is delusion: these are the ten afflictions, which, passing through the three realms and Four Truths, make the eighty-eight afflictions, called the truth of origination. If one recognizes the four inversions in begging for food—taking the resemblance and continuity that conceal \[truth\] to be permanent, taking what pleases the mind to be pleasure, taking the concealing movements of actions to be self, and taking what is concealed by a thin skin to be pure—recognizing the four concealments and lacking the four inversions, diligently preventing the two evils and generating the two goods, and cultivating the four absorptions, faculties, powers, factors of awakening, and limbs of the path: this is the truth of the path. When begging for food, if one does not calculate a self, delusion is eliminated; because delusion is eliminated, craving is eliminated; because craving is eliminated, anger is eliminated; because anger is eliminated, not exalting oneself, conceit is eliminated; because conceit is eliminated, when rebuked there is no doubt; because of non-self, the view of self is eliminated; because the view of self is eliminated, extreme views are eliminated; not grasping this as the path, attachment to precepts and vows is eliminated; not reckoning it as the real, attachment to views is eliminated; not grasping errantly, wrong views are eliminated. Because these ten are eliminated, the eighty-eight are eliminated; because the eighty-eight are eliminated, the bond of afflictions is eliminated; because the bond of afflictions is eliminated, the bond of retribution is eliminated; because the bond of retribution is eliminated, the twenty-five states of existence are eliminated: this is the truth of cessation. If in begging for food one does not see the four noble truths, one will for a long time wander in the great ocean of suffering that is saṃsāra; if one can see the Four Truths, one can sever saṃsāra. When saṃsāra is exhausted, one no longer receives any existence. This is the contemplation-wisdom of dhūta in begging for food; the rules for clothing and the rules for dwelling places are also like this. This is the dhūta of the Tripiṭaka teaching. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.120](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.120) - [Next: 1.122](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.122) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718~en-mt.1.121) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.121](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1718.1.121) · Pramāṇa