坐禪三昧經 1.43

1.43

「從胎中來生常苦，是中眾生莫瞋惱；
若念瞋惱慈悲滅，慈悲瞋惱不相比。
汝念慈悲瞋惱滅，譬如明闇不同處；
若持淨戒念瞋恚，是人自毀破法利。
譬如諸象入水浴，復以泥土塗坌身；
一切常有老病死，種種鞭笞百千苦。
云何善人念眾生，而復加益以瞋惱？
若起瞋恚欲害彼，未及前人先自燒；
是故常念行慈悲，瞋惱惡念內不生。
若人常念行善法，是心常習佛所念；
是故不應念不善，常念善法歡樂心。
今世得樂後亦然，得道常樂是涅槃；
若心積聚不善覺，自失己利并害他。
是謂不善彼我失，他有淨心亦復沒；
譬如阿蘭若道人，舉手哭言賊劫我。

"Ever since emerging from the womb, life is always suffering; / do not become angry and annoyed toward sentient beings within it! / If you think of anger and vexation, loving-kindness and compassion are destroyed; / loving-kindness and compassion do not match with anger and vexation. / When you contemplate loving-kindness and compassion, anger and vexation are extinguished, / just as light and darkness do not dwell in the same place. / If one upholds pure precepts yet thinks with ill-will, / this person destroys himself and ruins the benefit of the Dharma. / Just as when elephants enter the water to bathe, / and then again smear their bodies with mud and dust. / All beings always have old age, sickness, and death, / various kinds of floggings, and hundreds of thousands of sufferings. / How could a good person, thinking upon sentient beings, / further augment these with anger and vexation? / If you give rise to malice wishing to harm another, / before you reach the other person, you yourself will be burned first. / Therefore constantly be mindful of practicing loving-kindness and compassion, / so that evil thoughts of anger and vexation do not arise within. / If a person constantly thinks of practicing good dharmas, / this mind will constantly cultivate what the Buddha is mindful of. / Therefore one should not think of what is unwholesome, / but constantly think of good dharmas with a joyful mind. / One will obtain happiness in this life and the same hereafter; / obtaining the path, eternal joy is nirvāṇa. / If the mind accumulates unwholesome thoughts, / one loses one's own benefit and harms others as well. / This is called unwholesome: both self and other are lost, / and the pure minds of others are also ruined. / It is like an araṇya practitioner / raising his hands and weeping, saying, 'Thieves have robbed me!'