諸經要集 13.15

13.15

其人身中因風起病。有百一種。寒熱共合。各有百一。凡合計之。四百四病。在人身中。如木生火還自燒然。病亦如是。如木因體興。反來危人。如身中蟲。擾動不安。三十六物。假名為人。以偽蓋之誑惑凡愚。妄起愛念共相親附。智者視虛安可近之。譬如陶器終有破壞。此身虛偽會有夭壽。貴賤同迷。至死不知。譬如大城四門失火位次燒之。乃到東門皆令灰燼。生老病死亦復如是。

In a person's body, illnesses arising from wind amount to one hundred and one kinds; [those arising from] cold and heat combined each amount to one hundred and one kinds. In all, they total four hundred and four illnesses. Residing within the human body, just as fire arises from wood and burns it back, illnesses are also like this: just as [fire] arises dependent on the substance of the wood and turns back to endanger the person, so too the worms within the body stir and create unrest. Thirty-six components are nominally termed 'a person.' Covered by deception, they delude the foolish and ordinary, who falsely give rise to attachments and become intimate with one another. When the wise view it as empty, how could they approach it? It is like an earthenware vessel, which will eventually break; this body is false and deceptive, bound to face premature death or old age. The noble and the lowly are equally bewildered, not knowing it until death. It is like the four gates of a great city catching fire, burning in succession until reaching the eastern gate, reducing everything to ashes; birth, aging, illness, and death are also like this.