諸經要集 20.11

20.11

佛告諸比丘。眾生無始生死長夜輪轉。不知苦之本際。無有一處不生不死者。如是長夜無始生死。不知苦之本際。亦無有一處。無父母兄弟妻子眷屬宗親師長者。譬如大雨滴泡一生一滅。如是眾生無明所蓋。愛繫其頸。長夜輪轉。不知苦之本際。譬如普天大雨洪澍。東西南北無斷絕處。如是四方無量國土。劫成劫壞。如天大雨普雨天下無斷絕處。長夜輪轉。不知苦之本際。譬如擲杖空中。或頭落地。或尾落地。或中落地。如是無始生死長夜輪轉。或墮地獄。或墮畜生。或墮餓鬼。

The Buddha addressed the bhikṣus: 'Sentient beings wander through the long night of beginningless saṃsāra, not knowing the original limit of suffering. There is no single place where one has not been born and has not died. Such is the wandering through the long night of beginningless saṃsāra, not knowing the original limit of suffering. Nor is there any place where one has not had parents, brothers, wives, children, dependents, kinsmen, teachers, and elders. Just as when heavy rain falls, bubbles arise and vanish, so too are sentient beings veiled by ignorance and with craving binding the neck; they wander through the long night, not knowing the original limit of suffering. Just as when heavy rain pours over the whole sky, without interruption in the east, west, south, or north, so too in the immeasurable lands of the four directions, in the formation and destruction of kalpas, just as heavy rain pours across all under heaven without interruption, they wander through the long night, not knowing the original limit of suffering. Just as when a stick is thrown into the air, sometimes the tip hits the ground, sometimes the tail hits the ground, and sometimes the middle hits the ground, so too in wandering through the long night of beginningless saṃsāra, sometimes one falls into hell, sometimes into the animal realm, and sometimes into the hungry ghost realm.'