《百喻经》
[The] Sūtra [Of A] Hundred Parables
（五一）五人买婢共使作喻
(51) Parable [Of The] Five Persons Buying [A] Servant [And] Together Ordering [Him To] Work
譬如五人共买一婢，其中一人语此婢言：「与我浣衣。」
For example, five persons together bought a servant. Among then, a person spoke [to] this servant, saying, ‘For me wash [my] clothes.’
次有一人复语浣衣。
Next, [there] was a person, [who] again said, ‘Wash [my] clothes.’
婢语次者：「先与其浣。」
[The] servant said [to] that next [person, ‘I will] first for that [person] wash.’
后者恚曰：「我共前人，同买于汝，云何独尔？」
The latter angrily said, ‘[As] I, together [with the] previous person, together bought you, why [are you] only [for him washing] thus?’
即鞭十下，如是五人各打十下。
Then whipping [him] ten times, thus [with the] five persons each beating [him] ten times.
五阴亦尔，烦恼因缘合成此身，而此五阴恒以生老病死无量苦恼搒笞众生。
[The] five aggregates [are] likewise thus, [with] afflictions [as] causes [and] conditions composing this body. Yet, these five aggregates [are] constantly with birth, ageing, sickness, death, immeasurable suffering [and] afflictions beating [and] whipping sentient beings.
[Note 1: The five aggregates (五蕴) are (i) form (色), (ii) feelings (受), (iii) perception (想), (iv) mental formation (行) and (v) consciousness (识).]
[Note 2: When the five aggregates gather and are attached to, this creates the illusion of self (我), with this as the root of afflictions. Afflictions that arise, when attached to, then further fortify the illusion of self.
Despite this ‘self’ being with the five aggregates, the latter ‘sabotage’ the first with much suffering, that occur in this life (between birth and death), and recur from life to life (in many rebirths and ‘redeaths’).]
Namo Amituofo : Translation and notes by Shen Shi’an
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