法苑珠林 53.44

53.44

One who cherishes one's own body / Should carefully protect what one guards; / Desiring and hoping for liberation, / One learns what is correct and does not sleep. / The body is primary; / One should encourage oneself to learn. / Once benefited, one may instruct others; / If unwearied, one is wise. / In learning, first rectify oneself, / And then rectify others. / Disciplining the body to enter wisdom, / One will surely return to being superior. / If one cannot benefit oneself, / How can one benefit others? / With the mind disciplined and the body upright, / What wish will not be attained? / Formerly made by myself, / Afterward I cherish myself; / Doing evil, one suffers it oneself, / Like a hard drill boring into a pearl.