諸經要集 10.100

10.100

"Because we guard the prohibitive precepts, / We dare not pull and snap [the grass]. / The Buddha taught that all grasses and trees / Are the villages of ghosts and spirits; / We dare not disobey, / And therefore cannot snap them. / Just as in an arena of incantations, / A boundary is drawn for a snake, / And through the power of the divine mantra / The venomous snake dare not cross; / So the boundaries drawn by the Munīndra / We dare not transgress. / This is the bridge and ford to attaining sagehood, / The foremost chief of all benefits; / Who that possesses wisdom / Would wish to break the vase of preceptive virtue?"