諸經要集 8.46

English (machine translation) 8.46

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8.46

"I am truly a beast, / Named a deer with a human head; / Though you have the body of a deer, / You are named a human with a deer's head. / Speaking according to principle, / It is not by bodily form that one is a human; / If one can have maitrī-karuṇā, / Though an animal, one is truly a human. / Beginning from this day, / I shall not eat any meat; / By bestowing fearlessness upon you, / For now I may set your mind at ease."

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諸經要集 — Classical Chinese