法苑珠林 71.39

71.39

述曰。夫論欲過者。謂五欲弊魔六塵惡賊。佛判邪惑。迷障佛性故。涅槃經云。眾生五識雖非一念。然是有漏。復是邪倒。增長諸漏為一切凡夫。取著於色乃至著識。以著色故則生貪心。生貪心故為色繫縛。乃至為識之所繫縛。以繫縛故則不得免。於生老病死憂悲大苦一切煩惱。又云。若有菩薩自言戒淨。雖復不與女人和合言語嘲調。聽其音聲。然見男子隨逐女時。或見女人隨逐男時。便生貪著。如是菩薩成就欲法。毀破淨戒。污辱梵行。令戒雜穢。不得名為淨戒具足。又智度論云。菩薩觀種種不淨。於諸衰中女衰最重。刀火雷電霹靂怨家。毒蛇之屬猶可暫近。女人慳妬瞋諂妖穢。鬪諍貪嫉不可親近。何以故。女子小人心淺智薄。唯欲是親。不觀富貴智德名聞。專行欲惡破人善根。桎梏枷鎖閉繫囹圄。雖曰難解猶尚易開。女鎖繫人染著根深。無可得脫。眾病最重。如佛偈言。

It is stated: Regarding the faults of desire, they refer to the five desires as ruinous Māras and the six dust-objects as evil thieves. The Buddha judged them to be deviant delusions, confusing and obstructing the Buddha-nature. Therefore, the *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra* says: 'Sentient beings' five consciousnesses, though not arising in a single thought-moment, are nevertheless defiled and perverse, increasing all defilements for all ordinary beings. They grasp and cling to visible form, and so on up to clinging to consciousness. Because of clinging to visible form, they give rise to a mind of greed; because of giving rise to a mind of greed, they are bound by form, and so on up to being bound by consciousness. Because of being bound, they cannot escape from birth, old age, sickness, death, worry, sorrow, great suffering, and all afflictions.' It also says: 'If there is a bodhisattva who claims his precepts are pure, yet although he does not join with a woman, speak or joke with her, or listen to her voice, when he sees a man pursuing a woman or a woman pursuing a man, he gives rise to covetous attachment—such a bodhisattva accomplishes the dharmas of desire, breaking the pure precepts, defiling the pure conduct, and polluting the precepts, and cannot be called endowed with pure precepts.' Furthermore, the *Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra* says: 'The bodhisattva contemplates various impurities. Among all ruins, the ruin of women is the gravest. Swords, fire, thunderbolts, lightning, and bitter enemies, as well as poisonous snakes and the like, can still be approached temporarily; but a woman's stinginess, jealousy, anger, flattery, bewitching filth, quarreling, and covetous envy must not be approached. Why is this? A woman is petty-minded, shallow in heart and thin in wisdom, intimate only with desire, taking no regard of wealth, noble status, virtue of wisdom, or fame. She specializes in practicing lustful evil, destroying people's good roots. As for shackles, cangues, chains, and confinement in prison, though called difficult to undo, they are still easily opened; but the chain of woman that binds a person has defiled attachment rooted so deeply that nothing can free him from it—of all illnesses, it is the gravest.' As the Buddha's verse says: