[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛說五無返復經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b) › 1.10 # 佛說五無返復經 1.10 佛說五無返復經 1.10 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b.1.10) 又語其姊：「卿弟已死，何不啼哭？」姊即向梵志說喻言：「我等兄弟，譬如工師入山斫林縛作大筏，安置水中，卒逢大風吹破筏散，隨水流去，前後分張不相顧望。我弟亦爾，如是宿命因緣，一時共合會在一家生。隨命長短，生死無常，合會有離。我弟命盡，各自隨行。無常對至，隨其本行，不能相救。」 > He also spoke to his elder sister: "Your younger brother is already dead; why do you not weep?" The sister then spoke a parable to the brahmacārin, saying, "We brothers and sisters are like a carpenter going into the mountains, felling trees, binding them into a great raft, and setting it upon the water: suddenly encountering a great wind, the raft breaks apart and disperses, drifting away with the flow of the water, separating fore and aft without looking back to one another. My brother and I are also like this: by past karmic causes and conditions, we were brought together at one time to be born in the one family. Following the span of our lives, birth and death are impermanent; where there is gathering, there is parting. Now that my brother's life has reached its end, each of us must follow our own deeds. When the retribution of impermanence arrives, each follows their own past actions; we cannot save one another." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b.1.9) - [Next: 1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b.1.11) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b~en-mt.1.10) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.52.26) — 道世, Classical Chinese - [佛說五無反復經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751a.1.12) — Classical Chinese - [佛說五無返復經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752.1.10) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b.1.10) · Pramāṇa