[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 78.5 # 法苑珠林 78.5 法苑珠林 78.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [78.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.5) 夫四蛇躁動三毒奔馳。六賊相侵百憂總萃。或宿重相嫌伺求長短。素懷結忿專加相害。了無仁義頓失慈悲。殺法殺緣教死讚死。或復潛行毒藥密遣祝邪。遂使含毒府藏鴆裂肝心。令其銜悲長夜抱痛幽泉。宛轉何辭。煩怨誰訴。故經曰。長者宅中多生毒樹。羅剎海上屢乞浮囊。亦如乾薪萬束豆火能焚。暗室百年一燈便破。故知瞋心甚於猛火。行者應自防護。劫功德賊無過斯害。若起一念恚火便燒眾善功德。是以惡性之人人畜皆畏。不簡善人。語則成毒。好壞他心。令他厭惡。人無愛者。眾所畏棄。如避狼虎。現被輕賤。死墮地獄。是故智者。見此等過。以忍滅之。不畏眾苦也。 > Now, the four snakes agitate restlessly and the three poisons run rampant; the six thieves encroach upon one another and a hundred sorrows gather together. Sometimes people harbor mutual hatred from past encounters, spying for shortcomings; having long fostered resentment, they apply themselves solely to harming each other. Utterly devoid of humaneness and righteousness, they abruptly abandon loving-kindness and compassion: prescribing the methods of killing, providing the conditions for killing, instructing in death, and praising death. Or they secretly administer poisons, or privately dispatch evil curses, causing the internal organs to be filled with poison and heart and liver to be torn apart by venom, forcing the victim to harbor grief through the long night and endure anguish in the nether springs. How can such winding agony be expressed? To whom can such bitter grievances be appealed? Therefore, a sutra states: In the house of an elder, many poisonous trees grow; upon the ocean of rākṣasas, they repeatedly beg for a floating bladder. It is also like ten thousand bundles of dry firewood that a bean-sized flame can burn down, or a dark room of a hundred years that a single lamp can shatter. Thus we know that an angry mind is worse than a fierce fire; practitioners should guard themselves against it. No thief that plunders merits is more harmful than this. If a single thought of the fire of anger arises, it burns up all roots of goodness and meritorious virtues. Therefore, evil-natured persons are feared by both humans and beasts. Making no distinction of virtuous people, their speech turns into poison; they delight in destroying the minds of others and causing others to detest them. Loved by no one, they are feared and cast aside by all, just like avoiding wolves and tigers. In the present life they are despised, and after death they fall into hell. Therefore, the wise, perceiving such faults, extinguish them with patience (kṣānti) and do not fear the various sufferings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 78.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.4) - [Next: 78.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.6) - [Up: 78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.78.5) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.15.53) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.78.5) · Pramāṇa