佛說佛名經 26.10

26.10

"Though the heavens are joyful, they inevitably end in ruin; when life ends, the spirit falls into the three evil paths. Therefore, the Buddha said to Subhadra: 'Your master, Udraka Rāmaputra, was of sharp faculties and clever, able to subdue afflictions up to the sphere of neither-perception-nor-non-perception; yet when his life ended, he returned to take the body of a flying cat in the animal destiny. How much more so for others?' Thus we know that before one realizes the noble fruit, all must cycle through and experience every evil destiny. If one is not careful, suddenly one morning one will personally encounter this affair, and it will be too late for regrets. Just as nowadays, being charged with a crime and brought before the magistrates is already a minor suffering, yet the mind and spirit are panicked and terrified, and kin fearfully seek rescue by a hundred means; compared with this, the various sufferings of hell are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of times greater, beyond all metaphor.