安樂集 1.108

1.108

答曰：「如《涅槃經》說：『取三千大千世界草木，截為四寸籌，以數一劫之中所受身父母頭數，猶自不澌。』或云：『一劫之中所飲母乳，多於四大海水。』或云：『一劫之中所積身骨，如毘富羅山。』如是遠劫已來，徒受生死，至於今日猶作凡夫之身，何曾思量傷歎不已？」

The answer is: 'As the Nirvāṇa-sūtra states: "Take the grasses and trees of a trichiliocosm and cut them into four-inch tallies to count the heads of the fathers and mothers of the bodies received in a single kalpa, and they would still not be exhausted." Or it is said: "The mother’s milk drunk in a single kalpa is more than the water in the four great oceans." Or it is said: "The bones accumulated from bodies in a single kalpa are like Mount Vipula." Since such distant kalpas beings have undergone saṃsāra in vain, down to the present day still bearing the body of an ordinary mortal; how could one ever reflect on this without endless sorrow and lamentation?'