法苑珠林 5.37

5.37

夫論人道之中。身形浮偽多諸罪業。喜造𮘧瑕。仁智道消恩良義絕。所以崔杼弑君。商臣害父。七雄並爭。萬國連蹤。互騁憍奢各衒婬蕩。淳風永盡美化不行。三毒競興十纏爭發。四流浩漫五蓋幽深。顛倒無明轉復滋甚。遂使生同險樹命等危城。口蜜易消井藤難久。壠頭松下哭響摧殘。廣巷重門悲聲嗚咽。今為人中悉皆懺悔。絓是圓首方足上智下愚。西盡瞿耶東極于逮。北窮單越。南罄閻浮。乃至板屋氈帷。文身被髮。飲血茹毛。巢居穴處。雕蹄黑齒。倒住傍行。弱水毛浮。危峯繩度。邊城遠戍。裝甲負戈。繫縛鎖囚。擔金捧木。並願各修禮讓。人氣孝慈。息放蕩之心。斷荒婬之色。質齊金石體類嵩華。八苦不侵九橫長遣也。

Now, concerning the human realm, physical forms are fleeting and false, with many sinful karmas, and people take pleasure in creating flaws and blemishes. The way of benevolence and wisdom perishes, and kindness, goodness, and righteousness are severed. Hence Cui Zhu assassinated his lord, and Shangchen harmed his father; the Seven Warring States contended together, and the myriad states followed in their wake. They vied in pursuing arrogance and extravagance, and each flaunted wanton licentiousness. The pure and simple customs were ended forever, and fine transformations ceased to operate. The three poisons contend to arise, and the ten entanglements strive to burst forth; the four floods are vast and overflowing, and the five hindrances are deep and dark. Perversion and ignorance flourish all the more, so that life is like a tree on a precipice, and existence equals an endangered city. Honey on the blade is easily licked, and the well-vine is hard to maintain for long. Atop the mounds and beneath the pines, weeping sounds are broken and ruined; in broad alleys and behind layered gates, sorrowful voices choke with tears. Now, on behalf of those in the human realm, we completely repent: all those with round heads and square feet, from the highest wisdom down to the lowest folly, reaching to Aparagodānīya in the west and Pūrvavideha in the east, exhausting Uttarakuru in the north and draining Jambudvīpa in the south; even down to those in wooden houses and felt tents, tattooed and unkempt, drinking blood and eating raw meat, living in nests and dwelling in caves, with carved hooves and black teeth, living upside-down and walking sideways; those where weak waters float feathers, crossing perilous peaks by ropes; those at frontier fortresses and distant garrisons, clad in armor and carrying spears; those bound in chains and imprisoned, carrying cangues and holding wooden yokes—may they all cultivate courtesy and deference, humaneness, filial piety, and kindness; may they quell unrestrained minds and cut off wild and licentious passions; may their character equal metal and stone, their bodies resemble Mounts Song and Hua, untouched by the eight sufferings and forever rid of the nine untimely deaths.