諸經要集 12.10

12.10

又智度論云。菩薩觀種種不淨。於諸衰中女衰最重。刀火雷電霹靂怨家毒蛇之屬。猶可暫近。女人慳妬瞋諂妖穢鬪諍貪嫉。不可親近。何以故。女子小人心淺智薄。唯欲是親。不觀富貴智德名聞。專行欲惡破人善根。桎梏枷鎖。閉繫囹圄。雖曰難解。猶尚易開。女鎖繫人。染著根深無可得脫。眾病最重。如佛偈言。

Furthermore, the Dazhidulun states: "The bodhisattva contemplates the manifold impurities. Among all ruins, the ruin wrought by women is the gravest. Things like knives, fire, thunder, lightning, bolts, enemies, and poisonous snakes may still be briefly approached; but a woman's stinginess, jealousy, anger, flattery, seductive filth, quarreling, and covetousness cannot be approached. Why is this? Women and petty persons have shallow minds and meager wisdom; they are intimate only with desire, not considering wealth, status, wisdom, virtue, or reputation. Exclusively practicing lustful evil, they destroy people's roots of goodness. Wooden fetters and chains, being locked in prison—though said to be hard to loosen, are still easily opened; but the shackles of women bind a person, and the defiled attachment strikes so deep a root that there is no escape. It is the gravest of all diseases, as the Buddha said in verse: