法苑珠林 82.9

82.9

怪哉臨命終　破我戒瓔珞
以戒莊嚴身　不用殯葬具
人身既難得　遭值戒復難
願捨百千命　不毀破禁戒
無量百千劫　時乃值遇戒
閻浮世界中　人身極難得
雖復得人身　值正法倍難
時復值法寶　愚者不知取
善能分別者　此事亦復難
戒寶入我手　云何復欲奪
乃是怨憎者　非我之所親

'How strange that as I approach the end of life,
You would break the necklace of my precepts!
I adorn my body with the precepts,
With no need for funeral accoutrements.
Since a human body is already hard to obtain,
To encounter the precepts is even harder.
I would rather surrender hundreds of thousands of lives
Than violate and break the restrictive precepts.
Only once in immeasurable hundreds of thousands of kalpas
Does one ever encounter the precepts.
Within the world of Jambudvīpa,
A human body is extremely hard to obtain.
Though one may again obtain a human body,
To encounter the saddharma is doubly hard.
And when one occasionally encounters the treasure of Dharma,
The foolish do not know to take it.
One who is able to distinguish it well—
This matter is also difficult.
The treasure of precepts has entered my hands;
Why would you wish to snatch it away?
This is to act as an enemy,
Not as one dear to me.'