[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) › 12.12 # 諸經要集 12.12 諸經要集 12.12 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.12.12) 色過既爾。自餘香味觸等例皆如然。一切眾生。無始已來永沈生死。不能出離者。寔由女色繫縛難脫。盲無慧眼。見生死坑致之陷墜。今惟道俗不觀欲患。向之馳走。何日返之得免斯過。心恒被染不能暫捨。戒尚不存。焉有定慧佛性觀哉。故涅槃經偈云。 > The faults of form being thus, the rest—smell, taste, touch, and so forth—are all likewise. That all sentient beings, since beginningless time, have perpetually sunk into birth and death and been unable to escape is truly because the fetters of female form are difficult to untie. Blind and without the eye of wisdom, seeing the pit of birth and death, they plunge into it. Now, considering that both monastics and laity do not observe the perils of desire, but rush headlong toward them—on what day will they turn back and escape this fault? Their minds are constantly defiled and cannot let go for a moment. When even the precepts do not survive, how could there be concentration, wisdom, or contemplation of the buddha-nature? Therefore, a verse in the Nirvāṇa Sūtra states: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.12.11) - [Next: 12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.12.13) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123~en-mt.12.12) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.12.12) · Pramāṇa