[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123) › 10.70 # 諸經要集 10.70 諸經要集 10.70 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.70) 怪哉臨命終　破我戒瓔珞 以戒莊嚴身　不用殯葬具 人身既難得　遭值戒復難 願捨百千命　不毀破禁戒 無量百千劫　時乃值遇戒 閻浮世間中　人身極難得 雖復得人身　值正法倍難 時復值法寶　愚者不知取 善能分別者　此事亦復難 戒寶入我手　云何復欲奪 乃是怨憎者　非我之所親 > 'How strange, that approaching the end of my life, / You would break the necklace of my precepts! / Adorning the body with the precepts, / One has no need of funeral equipment. / Since a human body is hard to obtain, / Encountering the precepts is even harder. / I would rather give up a hundred thousand lives / Than violate and break the prohibitive precepts. / Over boundless hundreds of thousands of kalpas, / Only occasionally does one encounter the precepts. / In the world of Jambudvīpa, / A human body is exceedingly hard to obtain. / Even if one obtains a human body, / Encountering the True Dharma is twice as hard. / When at times one encounters the jewel of the Dharma, / The foolish do not know to grasp it. / One who is able to distinguish it well— / Such a thing is also difficult. / The jewel of the precepts has entered my hand; / Why would you seek to rob it again? / Truly you are one who harbors enmity, / And not my relative!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.69) - [Next: 10.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.71) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.10.70) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.10.70) · Pramāṇa