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# 法苑珠林 90.37

法苑珠林 90.37

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [90.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.90.37)

又像法決疑經云。未來世中一切俗人輕賤三寶。正以比丘比丘尼不如法故。身披法服經理俗緣。或復市肆販賣自活。或復涉路商賈求利。或作畫師經生像匠工巧之業。或占相男女舍屋田園種種吉凶。或飲酒醉歌舞作樂圍棊六博。或貪財求利延時歲月廢忘經業。或呪術治病假託經書修禪占事以邪活命。或行醫鍼炙合和湯藥診脈處方男女交雜。因斯致染敗善增惡。招俗譏謗良由於此。夫出家之人為求解脫先須離罪。以戒為首。若不依戒眾善不住。如人無頭諸根亦壞名為死人。故解脫道論云。如人無頭一切諸根不能取塵。是時名死。如是比丘以戒為頭。若頭斷已失諸善法。於佛法為死。亦如死屍大海不納。

> Furthermore, the Xiangfa jueyi jing says: In future worlds, all secular people will look down upon and despise the Three Jewels precisely because bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs do not act according to the Dharma. They put on the kāṣāya but manage worldly affairs, or do business in the marketplace to support themselves, or travel along the roads as merchants seeking profit; or work as painters, scribes, statue-makers, and craftsmen; or practice divination concerning men and women, houses, fields, and gardens, prognosticating various kinds of fortune and misfortune; or drink alcohol, get drunk, sing and dance, make music, and play weiqi and liubo; or covet wealth and seek gain, idling away the days and months while neglecting and forgetting their scriptural study; or cure sicknesses with spells, falsely citing the scriptures while practicing dhyāna and divination to make a wrong livelihood; or practice medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, concocting herbal decoctions, taking pulses, and prescribing remedies, mingling promiscuously with men and women. In this way they incur defilement, ruining their good roots and increasing evil. It is indeed because of this that they invite the ridicule and slander of the worldly. Now, those who leave household life to seek liberation must first keep distant from sin, taking the precepts as foremost. If one does not rely upon the precepts, the manifold goods will not abide—just as when a person lacks a head, the sense faculties are ruined and he is called a dead man. Thus the Vimuttimagga says: 'Just as when a person has no head, all his sense faculties cannot grasp their objects, and at that time he is called dead; so too, a bhikṣu has the precepts as his head. If his head is severed, he loses all wholesome dharmas and is dead to the Buddha's Dharma, just as a corpse is not received by the great ocean.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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