[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.752) › 1.25 # 佛說五無返復經 1.25 佛說五無返復經 1.25 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752.1.25) 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." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752.1.24) - [Next: 1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752.1.26) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752~en-mt.1.25) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [佛說五無反復經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751a.1.26) — Classical Chinese - [佛說五無返復經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.751b.1.23) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.752.1.25) · Pramāṇa