法苑珠林 69.60

69.60

Fourth: with parents, siblings, household, relatives, friends, and acquaintances, cherished affection, glory, and pleasure, wealth, riches, honor, official rank, and emoluments, riding horses and sightseeing, wives, concubines, sons, and daughters, thereby indulging oneself in arrogance; eating and drinking to one's heart's content, with boys, guests, and servants hurrying about, casting alluring glances, admiring one's shadow as one walks, despising the multitude, considering oneself without equal, abusing slaves and hirelings, treating them like beasts and domestic animals, coming and going freely without limit or measure, never reflecting on what went before or what will come after, believing that one's retinue and servants can be kept forever—yet when past retribution suddenly arrives, like hot water melting snow, one's heart is seized with fear, begging and seeking for relief from the disaster, but how could one get one's wish? With an inhalation and exhalation life is severed, and the spirit departs alone; parents, siblings, wives, children, relatives, friends, acquaintances, and beloved retinue all stay behind on their own; official ranks, wealth, and servants scatter, fleeing like shooting stars: wishing to seek not to die is utterly unattainable."