佛說五無返復經 1.9

1.9

梵志便行入城，詣耕者家，見死兒母，即便語之：「卿兒已死。父言：『但持一人食來。』何以不念子耶？」兒母逆為梵志說譬喻言：「子者如客，來依人止。來亦不却，去亦不留。此兒本我亦不喚來自來過我生，死亦自去。非我力乃使進退，隨其本行追命所生。」

The brahmacārin then walked into the city and went to the plowman's house. Seeing the dead boy's mother, he immediately told her, "Your son is already dead. His father said, 'Bring food for only one person.' Why do you not think of your son?" In response, the boy's mother spoke a parable for the brahmacārin, saying, "A child is like a guest who comes to stay relying upon someone. When he comes, one does not turn him away; when he leaves, one does not detain him. Originally, I did not call this child; he came of himself to be born to me, and in dying he has departed of himself. It is not within my power to bring about his coming or going; following his own past actions, he is born according as his destiny dictates."