佛說五無返復經 1.8

1.8

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，非我力乃便進退，隨其本行，追命所生。」

The boy's mother spoke a parable in response to the brahmacārin, saying, "A child is like a guest who comes to stay with someone; when he comes, he is not turned away, and when he leaves, he is not detained. Originally, I did not call this child to come; he came of himself to be born through me, and in dying he has departed of himself. It was not through my power that he came or went; he follows his own past actions, pursued by the lifespan destined for his birth."