諸經要集 10.70

10.70

'How strange, that approaching the end of my life, / You would break the necklace of my precepts! / Adorning the body with the precepts, / One has no need of funeral equipment. / Since a human body is hard to obtain, / Encountering the precepts is even harder. / I would rather give up a hundred thousand lives / Than violate and break the prohibitive precepts. / Over boundless hundreds of thousands of kalpas, / Only occasionally does one encounter the precepts. / In the world of Jambudvīpa, / A human body is exceedingly hard to obtain. / Even if one obtains a human body, / Encountering the True Dharma is twice as hard. / When at times one encounters the jewel of the Dharma, / The foolish do not know to grasp it. / One who is able to distinguish it well— / Such a thing is also difficult. / The jewel of the precepts has entered my hand; / Why would you seek to rob it again? / Truly you are one who harbors enmity, / And not my relative!'