法苑珠林 52.16

52.16

The branches produced do not cease, / purely driven by eating and greedy desires. / Nourishing enemies only adds to burial mounds; / the foolish toils restlessly. / Though prisons have fetters and chains, / the wise do not call them secure; / the foolish, seeing wife and child adorned, / cling deeply to them, loving their prison. / The wise say that craving is a prison, / deep and secure, difficult to escape. / Therefore one must sever and abandon it; / keeping desires at a distance brings peace.