諸經要集 12.12

12.12

The faults of form being thus, the rest—smell, taste, touch, and so forth—are all likewise. That all sentient beings, since beginningless time, have perpetually sunk into birth and death and been unable to escape is truly because the fetters of female form are difficult to untie. Blind and without the eye of wisdom, seeing the pit of birth and death, they plunge into it. Now, considering that both monastics and laity do not observe the perils of desire, but rush headlong toward them—on what day will they turn back and escape this fault? Their minds are constantly defiled and cannot let go for a moment. When even the precepts do not survive, how could there be concentration, wisdom, or contemplation of the buddha-nature? Therefore, a verse in the Nirvāṇa Sūtra states: