[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) › [勸發菩提心集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862) › 2.4 # 勸發菩提心集 2.4 勸發菩提心集 2.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.2.4) 《智度論》十三云：若慈愍眾生故，為度眾生故，亦知戒實相故，心不倚著。如此持戒，將來令人得至佛道，如是名為得無上佛道戒。若人求大善利，當堅持戒，如惜重寶，如護身命。何以故？譬如大地，一切萬物有形之類，皆依地而住。戒亦如是，戒為一切善法住處，譬如無足欲行，無翅欲飛，無船欲度，是不可得。若不持戒欲得好果，亦復如是。若人棄捨此戒，雖山居苦行食果服藥，與禽獸無異。人雖貧窮而能持戒，勝於富貴。而破戒者華香木香不能遠聞，持戒之香周遍十方。持戒之人具足安樂，名聲遠聞，天人愛敬，現世常得種種快樂。若欲天上人中富貴長壽，取之不難，持戒清淨所願皆得。復次，持戒之人常得今世人所敬養，心樂不悔，衣食無乏，死得生天，後得佛道。持戒之人無事不得，破戒之人一切皆失。譬如有人常供養天，其人貧窮，一心供養，滿十二歲，求索富貴。天愍此人，自現其身（廣說如常也）。復次，持戒之人，人所樂施不惜財物，不修世利而無所乏，得得生天上十方佛前，入三乘道而得解脫。唯種種邪見而持戒者，後無所獲。復次，持戒之人，雖無兵杖，眾苦不加。持戒之財，無能奪者。持戒親親雖死不離，持戒莊嚴勝於七寶。以是之故，當護於戒如護身命，如愛重寶。破戒之人受苦萬端，如向貧人破瓶失物。以是之故，應持淨戒。 > The Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa, fascicle thirteen, says: If, out of compassionate pity for sentient beings, for the sake of delivering sentient beings, and also knowing the true mark of the precepts, the mind does not depend or cling, upholding the precepts in this way will lead one in the future to attain the Buddha Way; this is called attaining the precepts of the unsurpassed Buddha Way. If a person seeks great and wholesome benefit, they should firmly uphold the precepts, as if cherishing a precious jewel, as if protecting bodily life. Why is this? For example, it is like the great earth: all things possessing form abide relying on the earth. The precepts are also like this; the precepts are the abiding place for all wholesome dharmas. For example, wishing to walk without feet, wishing to fly without wings, or wishing to cross over without a boat—these are impossible. Wishing to obtain good fruits without upholding the precepts is also like this. If a person discards these precepts, even though they dwell in the mountains practicing austerities, eating fruits and taking herbs, they are no different from birds and beasts. Even though a person is poor, if they can uphold the precepts, they are superior to the rich and noble. But for one who breaks the precepts, flower incense and wood incense cannot be smelled from afar, whereas the fragrance of upholding the precepts pervades the ten directions. A person who upholds the precepts is endowed with peace and bliss, their fame is heard from afar, they are loved and respected by devas and humans, and in the present life they constantly obtain various joys. If one wishes for wealth, nobility, and long life in the heavens or among humans, obtaining them is not difficult; when upholding the precepts purely, all that is wished for is obtained. Furthermore, a person who upholds the precepts is constantly respected and supported by people of the present world, their mind is joyful without remorse, they lack neither clothing nor food, at death they attain rebirth in heaven, and later they attain the Buddha Way. For a person who upholds the precepts, there is nothing they do not attain; for a person who breaks the precepts, everything is lost. For example, it is like a person who constantly made offerings to a deva: that person was poor, and with single-minded devotion made offerings for a full twelve years, seeking wealth and nobility. The deva took pity on this person and manifested its body to them (explained at length as usual). Furthermore, a person who upholds the precepts is one to whom people delight to give, not begrudging wealth; without pursuing worldly gain they lack nothing, they are repeatedly reborn in the heavens and before the Buddhas of the ten directions, and they enter the path of the three vehicles to attain liberation. It is only those who uphold precepts with various wrong views who attain nothing in the end. Furthermore, for a person who upholds the precepts, even without weapons, multiple sufferings do not afflict them. As for the wealth of upholding the precepts, none can rob it. The close kin of upholding the precepts are not separated even in death. The adornment of upholding the precepts is superior to the seven jewels. For this reason, one should protect the precepts as one protects one's bodily life, and cherish them as one loves a precious jewel. A person who breaks the precepts undergoes ten thousand kinds of suffering, like the poor man who broke the vase and lost his possessions. For this reason, one should uphold the pure precepts. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.2.3) - [Next: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.2.5) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862~en-mt.2.4) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1862.2.4) · Pramāṇa