諸經要集 17.23

17.23

“Liquor can derange people's minds, / making people like sheep and the like. / Not knowing what should or should not be done, / thus one should abandon liquor. / If a person is intoxicated with liquor, / they are no different from a dead corpse. / If one wishes to be forever deathless, / that person should abandon liquor. / Liquor is the source of all faults, / constantly bringing no benefit, / the stairway to all evil destinies, / the place where darkness resides. / Drinking liquor leads to hell, / and also leads to the realm of hungry ghosts; / one performs the deeds of animals, / deceived by the faults of liquor. / Liquor is the poison among poisons, / the hell within hells, / the great disease among diseases; / this is what the wise proclaim. / If a person drinks liquor, / they rejoice without cause, / they rage without cause, / and they do evil without cause. / Toward the Buddha they generate foolish delusion, / ruining worldly and supramundane affairs; / it burns liberation like fire, / this single dharma that is called liquor. / If a person can abandon liquor / and practice uprightly in the Dharma and precepts, / they will arrive at the supreme place, / the place of no death and no birth.”