佛說五無返復經 1.9

1.9

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."