[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) › [佛說盂蘭盆經疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792) › 2.17 # 佛說盂蘭盆經疏 2.17 佛說盂蘭盆經疏 2.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792.2.17) 又云「其兒遙見母來，或在欄車搖頭弄腦，或復曳腹隨行嗚呼向母。母為其子曲身下就，長舒兩手摩拭塵土，嗚和其口、開懷出乳，以乳乳之。母見兒歡、兒見母喜，二情相交恩愛慈重莫復過是（云云）。既生長大，朋友相隨，梳頭摩髮，欲得好衣覆蓋其身，敝衣故破父母自著，新好綿帛先與其子。至于行來官私急疾，傾心南北、逐子東西，橫簪頭上。子漸長大，為與索妻，得他女子父母轉疎，私房室內共相語樂。父母年老氣力衰微，終朝至暮不來借問。或復父孤母寡獨守空房，猶如客人寄止他舍，常無恩愛。或無襦被寒凍苦辛，厄難遭之太甚。年老色衰多饒蚤蝨，夙夜不臥長吟歎息：『何罪宿愆，生此不孝之子。』或時呼喚，瞋目驚怒盡不從順。婦兒罵詈，低頭含笑（云云）。帝釋梵王諸天人民，一切眾會聞經歡喜發菩提心，號哭動地淚下如雨。」評曰：細思其事，誠哉是言。或有母不如此、兒不如彼者，百中無一也。良繇眾生無始無明迷真執妄，既根本顛倒，故枝末一一皆然。禍哉凡愚，云何可度。 > It also says: 'The child sees the mother coming from afar; either in the railed cart shaking its head and tossing its brain, or crawling on its belly following along, crying out toward the mother. For her child, the mother bends her body down low, stretches out both hands, wipes away the dust and dirt, makes cooing sounds to its mouth, opens her bosom to bring forth milk, and nurses it with milk. The mother is delighted to see the child, and the child is joyful to see the mother; their two feelings intermingle, and their kindness, love, compassion, and affection are so weighty that nothing surpasses this (and so forth). Once grown to adulthood, following friends, combing the hair and rubbing the locks, desiring good clothes to cover their bodies, the parents wear the tattered and old garments themselves, while first giving the new and fine cotton and silk to their child. As for rushing about on official or private urgent matters, their hearts incline north and south, following their child east and west, the hairpin crooked upon the head. As the child gradually grows up, they seek a wife for him; having obtained another's daughter, he grows increasingly distant from his parents, speaking and rejoicing together inside the private bedchamber. When the parents are old and their strength has declined, from morning until evening he does not come to inquire after them. Or the father is solitary and the mother a widow, keeping lonely vigil in an empty room, just like guests staying temporarily in another's house, constantly devoid of love and kindness. Or having no jacket or quilt, suffering the bitterness of freezing cold, their hardships and distress are excessive. Old in age and withered in countenance, infested with many fleas and lice, through morning and night they do not sleep, groaning long and sighing: "What sin, what past transgression, has brought forth such an unfilial child?" Sometimes calling him, he glares with startled fury, entirely refusing to comply. Yet when wife and children scold him, he bows his head with an accommodating smile (and so forth). Śakra, the Brahmā kings, all the devas, and humans—all in the great assembly, having heard the sūtra, rejoiced, gave rise to the bodhicitta, wept and wailed shaking the earth, their tears falling like rain.' In evaluation, I say: Thinking carefully upon these matters, truly these words are so! Even if there are mothers not like this or children not like that, they are not one in a hundred. This is truly because sentient beings, through beginningless ignorance, are deluded about the real and cling to the false; since the root is inverted, the branches and twigs are all likewise without exception. How calamitous are the ordinary and foolish! How can they ever be delivered? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792.2.16) - [Next: 2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792.2.18) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792~en-mt.2.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1792.2.17) · Pramāṇa