法苑珠林 5.58

5.58

故賓頭盧尊者語王云。大王。宜善觀察。何有五欲而得常者。何有王位而得久停。何有國界而不遷滅。何有珍寶而不散失。何有欲樂常恒不變。何有合會而不離散。一切五欲體。性實苦。皆從妄想而生於樂。故王位亦苦無安。如夢所見覺則知虛。是故智者應生厭離。即知一切內外所遷皆是無常。雖可麁細似異。然剎那不住是住是同。故經說。由色苦故。十時差別。一者膜時。二者泡時。三者皰時。四者肉團時。五者肢時。六者嬰孩時。七者童子時。八者少年時。九者盛壯時。十者衰老時。若非時無常。不應從膜乃至老死。良由三毒猛火燒心熾然不絕。故受斯苦（依經云人亦多種。具如前三界篇中四天下洲品類廣說也）。

Therefore the venerable Piṇḍola said to the king: “Great King, you should examine this well. How could the five desires ever be permanent? How could the royal station ever endure for long? What realm is there that does not undergo destruction? What treasures are there that will not be scattered and lost? What sensual pleasure is eternal and unchanging? What union is there that does not end in parting? The intrinsic nature of all five desires is truly suffering; it is entirely from deluded thoughts that pleasure is produced. Thus the royal station is also suffering and without safety, like what is seen in a dream, which upon waking is known to be hollow. For this reason the wise should give rise to revulsion. One should know that everything internal and external subject to change is impermanent. Though the coarse and the subtle may appear different, their failure to abide for a single instant is one and the same. Thus the sūtra states: ‘Because form is suffering, there is a differentiation of ten stages: first, the stage of the kalala (embryonic membrane); second, the stage of the arbuda (bubble); third, the stage of the peśī (fleshy vesicle); fourth, the stage of the ghana (mass of flesh); fifth, the stage of limbs; sixth, the stage of infancy; seventh, the stage of childhood; eighth, the stage of youth; ninth, the stage of prime vigor; and tenth, the stage of decrepit old age.’ Were it not for the impermanence of time, one would not progress from the embryonic membrane through to old age and death. It is truly because the fierce fire of the three poisons blazes in the heart without ceasing that one experiences such suffering.” (According to the sūtras, there are also many kinds of humans, as set forth in detail previously in the section on the species of the four continents in the Chapter on the Three Realms.)