佛說五無返復經 1.25

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佛言：「不然，不如卿語。此之五人，最有返復，知命無常，非愁憂所逮，是故自定，無有愁慼；世間俗人，不識無常，懊惱啼哭，不能自勝。譬如人得熱病，不自覺知，恍惚妄語。良師與藥，熱即除愈，不復妄語。俗人愚癡，愁憂啼哭，不能自解；能知無常，不復愁憂，如熱病愈，此之五人，皆得道證。」

The Buddha said, "It is not so; it is not as you say. These five people possess the greatest human feeling. Knowing that life is impermanent and cannot be retrieved through sorrow and grief, they remain self-composed and free of distress. Worldly people do not understand impermanence; they fret, lament, and weep, unable to control themselves. It is like a person afflicted with a fever, who lacks self-awareness and deliriously babbles in confusion. When an able physician gives them medicine, the fever is eliminated and healed, and they no longer babble. Ordinary people are ignorant; they sorrow, grieve, and weep, unable to untangle themselves. If one can know impermanence, one will no longer sorrow or grieve, just as a fever is cured. These five people have all attained realization of the Way."