法苑珠林 71.41

71.41

色過既爾。自餘香味觸等例皆如然。一切眾生無始已來。永沈生死不能出離者。寔由女色。繫縛難脫。盲無慧眼。見生死坑致之陷墜。今惟道俗不觀欲患。向之馳走。何日返之。得免斯過。心常被染不能暫捨。戒尚不存焉有定慧。佛性觀哉。故涅槃經偈云。

The faults of visible form being such, the rest—scents, tastes, touch, and so on—are all likewise. That all sentient beings from beginningless time have forever sunk into saṃsāra and been unable to escape is truly due to feminine form, by which they are bound and find it difficult to break free. Blind and devoid of the eye of wisdom, they do not see the pit of saṃsāra, causing them to plunge into it. Considering now that neither monastics nor laypeople contemplate the perils of desire, but instead rush toward them, on what day will they turn back and be able to escape this fault? Their minds are constantly defiled and cannot relinquish them even for a moment; when even the precepts are not preserved, how could there be concentration, wisdom, or contemplation of the Buddha-nature? Therefore, a verse from the *Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra* says: