諸經要集 12.32

12.32

"Do not sleep embracing a dead corpse,
a temporary human designation of various impurities!
Like one with a severe disease, an arrow penetrating the body,
when all bitter pains have gathered, how can you sleep?
Like a person bound and led to execution,
when disaster is about to arrive, how can you sleep?
The thieves of the fetters are not yet slain, the danger not yet removed,
as if lodging in the same room with a venomous snake,
or like standing in battle amid naked blades—
at that time, how could one sleep?
Sleep is a great darkness in which nothing is seen;
day after day it cheats and deprives people of their clarity.
With sleep covering the mind, nothing is seen;
with such great loss, how can you sleep?"