法苑珠林 93.22

93.22

"Liquor can confuse a person's mind,
Making people like sheep and the like;
Not knowing what should or should not be done,
Thus one should abandon liquor.
If a person is drunk on liquor,
They are no different from a dead person;
If one wishes never to die,
That person should abandon liquor.
Liquor is the abode of all faults,
Always bringing no benefit;
The stairway to all evil destinies,
The place where darkness resides.
Drinking liquor leads to hell,
And also leads to the realm of hungry ghosts;
Engaging in the karma of beasts,
One is deceived by the fault of liquor.
Liquor is the poison among poisons,
The hell within hells;
The great illness among illnesses—
This is what the wise have taught.
If a person drinks liquor,
They become joyful without cause;
They become angry without cause,
And perform evil without cause.
Toward the Buddha they give rise to folly,
Destroying worldly and supramundane matters;
It burns liberation like fire:
Namely, this single phenomenon of liquor.
If a person can abandon liquor,
And practice the Dharma and precepts correctly,
They will reach the foremost place,
The place free from death and free from birth."