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The Book of Hundred Parables--The Son Wants to Stop at Home (6)

Buddhist allusions 2023-08-30

The son wants to stop at home

Original:

In the past, there were fools who raised seven sons. One son dies first. Then the fool saw that the Son was dead, and he wanted to lay it down in his house, and he wanted to abandon it.

When the people saw it, they said: "The way of life and death should be fast and solemn, and it will be buried in the distance." Why should the clouds be left behind, and they will be abandoned? ”

When the fool heard this, he thought to himself: "If you can't stay, if you want to be buried, you must kill one son and stop bearing both ends, and you can win." So he killed one of his sons and took it, and buried him in the wilderness.

When people saw it, they sneered deeply, no wonder there had never been.

For example, a bhikshu who violates a precept for himself repents of his feelings and hides it silently, saying that he is pure. Or someone who knows the words of the saying: "Those who are monks keep the precepts, like protecting the pearl, so that they will not be lost." Why do you not repent of what you have transgressed? The offender said, "Those who have to confess will commit it even more, and then they will be punished." Then he broke the vows, and did many bad deeds, and Ernai came out suddenly. Like a fool, when one son dies and kills another, so is the bhikshu today.

Translations:

The story of killing another son to make up the burden

Once upon a time there was a man with a very stupid brain who had seven sons, and when one of them died suddenly, he left the body at home and wanted to leave the house for somewhere else.

When the neighbors saw this, they told him: "Life and death are two different paths for man, and when a person dies, he should quickly stop the corpse and send it to a distant place for burial." How can you park at home and leave it? ”

At this time, the stupid man heard these words, and thought to himself: "If it cannot be parked, and it must be buried, how can a dead body be picked?" One more son had to be killed to balance the burden. He was sent to the cemetery smoothly, so he killed another son, carried the two corpses one by one, and sent them to the forest in the wild to be buried.

At that time, people were extremely hateful when they saw this kind of behavior, and they laughed deeply, thinking that it was a foolish thing that had never happened before.

To use this as an analogy, some bhikshus have violated a certain precept in private, and they are afraid to ask for repentance, so they refuse to change their mistakes, and secretly cover up their mistakes, saying only that they are pure. Some of the good knowledge said to him, "Monks keep the precepts like guarding the pearl and caring for the eyes, so that it will not be lost or damaged." If you have broken a certain vow, why don't you repent, and the transgressor says, "If you have to repent, wait until I break the vow a few more times and expose my mistakes together." "Those who break the vows are under the control of this wrong thinking, continue to break the vows, do more bad things, and are expelled from the sangha as a result. It's like the stupid man mentioned above, who killed a son and killed another. This bhikkhu in front of him is just like this stupid man.

2024-02-05 18:02
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