法苑珠林 53.75

53.75

百喻經云。昔者夫婦有三番餅。夫婦共分各食一餅。餘一番在。共作要言。若有語者要不與餅。既作要已為一餅故各不敢語。須臾有賊入家偷盜取其財物。一切所有盡畢賊手。夫婦二人以先要故眼看不語。賊見不語即其夫前侵掠其婦。其夫眼見亦復不語。婦便喚賊。語其夫言。云何癡人為一餅故見賊不喚。其夫拍手咲言。咄婢。我家得餅不復與爾。世人聞之不無蚩咲。凡夫之人亦復如是。為小名利詐現靜默。為虛假煩惱種種惡賊之所侵掠。喪其善法遂墮三塗。都不悑畏求出世道。方於五欲耽著嬉戲。雖遭大苦不以為患。如彼愚人等無有異。

The Sūtra of One Hundred Parables says: Formerly, a husband and wife had three cakes. The husband and wife divided them, each eating one cake, with one cake remaining. They made an agreement together: 'Whoever speaks first must not be given the cake.' Having made this agreement, for the sake of the one cake neither dared to speak. In a short while, a thief entered the house, stole, and took their property; everything they possessed fell entirely into the thief's hands. Because of their prior agreement, the husband and wife looked on with their eyes and did not speak. Seeing that they did not speak, the thief violated his wife right in front of the husband. The husband saw it with his own eyes and still did not speak. The wife then cried out, 'Thief!' and said to her husband, 'Why, you fool, for the sake of one cake, do you see a thief and not call out?' Her husband clapped his hands and laughed, saying: 'Ha, wench! The cake in our house is mine; I will not give it to you!' When worldly people hear of this, none fail to mock and laugh. Ordinary people are also like this: for petty fame and gain they feign silence, and are plundered by the various evil thieves of artificial defilements, forfeiting their wholesome dharmas and consequently falling into the three destinies, not fearing at all to seek the supramundane path, but indulging in play and games among the five desires; though encountering great suffering, they do not consider it a calamity—no different from that fool.