摩訶止觀 5.129

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○二、發真正菩提心者，既深識不思議境，知一苦一切苦。自悲昔苦，起惑耽湎麁弊色聲，縱身口意作不善業。輪環惡趣縈諸熱惱，身苦心苦而自毀傷。而今還以愛繭自纏，癡燈所害，百千萬劫一何痛哉！設使欲捨三途，欣五戒十善，相心修福。如市易博換，翻更益罪，似魚入笱口、蛾赴燈中。狂計邪黠，逾迷逾遠，渴更飲鹹。龍須縛身，入水轉痛；牛皮繫體，向日彌堅。盲入棘林，溺墮洄澓。把刃把炬，痛那可言？虎尾蛇頭，悚焉悼慄；自惟若此，悲他亦然。

Second, concerning 'arousing the genuine aspiration for bodhi': having profoundly recognized the inconceivable realm, one knows that a single suffering is all suffering. One grieves for one's own past suffering: giving rise to delusions, indulging in crude and defiled sights and sounds, and indulging body, speech, and mind in performing unwholesome karma. Revolving through the evil destinies and entangled in various burning afflictions, suffering in body and mind, one brought harm upon oneself. And now, again entangling oneself in the cocoon of craving and harmed by the lamp of folly, throughout hundreds of thousands of kalpas, how painful it has been! Even supposing one wishes to abandon the three evil paths, delight in the five precepts and ten virtuous deeds, and cultivate merit with a calculating mind—this is like exchanging goods at a market, which on the contrary only increases guilt; it is like a fish entering the mouth of a basket trap, or a moth flying into a flame. Through wild calculations and crooked cleverness, the more one is confused, the further away one strays; being thirsty, one drinks more salt water. Bound by dragon's whiskers, entering water causes even greater agony; tied with ox hide, turning toward the sun makes it all the tighter. A blind person entering a bramble forest; a drowning person falling into a whirlpool; grasping a blade, grasping a torch—how can the pain be described? Stepping on a tiger's tail or a snake's head, one trembles in horror and grief. Reflecting on oneself in this way, one feels pity that others are also like this.