法苑珠林 53.77

53.77

百喻經云。昔有一人娉娶二婦。若近其一為一所瞋。不能栽斷。便在二婦中間正身仰臥。值天大雨屋舍霖漏。水土俱下墮其眼中。以先有要不敢起避。遂令二目俱失其明。世間凡夫亦復如是。親近邪友習行非法。造作結業墮三惡道。長處生死喪智慧眼。如彼愚夫為其二婦故二眼俱失。

The Sūtra of One Hundred Parables says: Formerly, a man married two wives. If he drew close to one, he was resented by the other; unable to decide between them, he lay on his back with his body straight between the two wives. It happened that heavy rain fell, and the house leaked profusely; water and mud fell together into his eyes. Because of his prior agreement, he did not dare get up to avoid it, and consequently both eyes lost their sight. The ordinary people of the world are also like this: they associate with evil friends and practice non-Dharma, creating fettering karma and falling into the three evil destinies, remaining long in birth-and-death and forfeiting the eye of wisdom, just as that foolish man, for the sake of his two wives, lost both his eyes.