四十二章經 1.36

1.36

佛言：「人有患婬，情不止，踞斧刃上，以自除其陰。佛謂之曰：『若斷陰不如斷心，心為功曹，若止功曹，從者都息；邪心不止，斷陰何益？斯須即死？』」佛言：「世俗倒見，如斯癡人。」

The Buddha said: "There was a man afflicted with lust whose passions did not cease; he squatted over the edge of an axe to cut off his own genitals. The Buddha said to him: 'Severing your genitals is not as good as severing your mind. The mind is the officer-in-charge; if you halt the officer-in-charge, his followers will all cease. If the perverse mind does not cease, what benefit is there in severing the genitals? You would die in an instant.'" The Buddha said: "The inverted views of the worldly are like this foolish man."