諸經要集 12.10

12.10

Furthermore, the Dazhidulun states: "The bodhisattva contemplates the manifold impurities. Among all ruins, the ruin wrought by women is the gravest. Things like knives, fire, thunder, lightning, bolts, enemies, and poisonous snakes may still be briefly approached; but a woman's stinginess, jealousy, anger, flattery, seductive filth, quarreling, and covetousness cannot be approached. Why is this? Women and petty persons have shallow minds and meager wisdom; they are intimate only with desire, not considering wealth, status, wisdom, virtue, or reputation. Exclusively practicing lustful evil, they destroy people's roots of goodness. Wooden fetters and chains, being locked in prison—though said to be hard to loosen, are still easily opened; but the shackles of women bind a person, and the defiled attachment strikes so deep a root that there is no escape. It is the gravest of all diseases, as the Buddha said in verse: