諸經要集 13.77

13.77

"The fifth is called addiction to alcohol. Liquor is a toxic vapor that primarily brings about all evils: the ruler's way is ruined and benevolent grace extinguished; ministers slight superiors and loyalty and respect decay; fathers lose etiquette and mothers lose compassion; sons are violent and tyrannical and filial piety collapses; husbands lose trustworthiness and wives become extravagant and wanton; the nine degrees of kin squabble and family estates are squandered. There is no ruining of the state or endangering of the person that does not stem from it. The ways in which liquor causes disorder are thirty-five. Seeing this, I have severed liquor and do not drink: this is my fifth teacher." The Buddha thereupon spoke in verse: