《百喻经》
[The] Sūtra [Of A] Hundred Parables
（七一）为二妇故丧其两目喻
[71] Parable [Of] Because Of Two Wives Thus Losing His Two Eyes
昔有一人娉取二妇，若近其一，为一所瞋。
[In the] past, [there] was a person [who] married [to] obtain two wives. If approaching [the] first, [it would] make that [other] one angry.
不能裁断，便在二妇中间正身仰卧。
Not able [to] consider [and] decide [upon one, he] then, at [the] two wives’ in between, straightened [his] body, lying supine.
值天大雨屋舍霖漏，水土俱下堕其眼中，以先有要不敢起避，遂令二目俱失其明。
Encountering [a] day [with] great rain, [the] house, [with] copious raining leaked, [with] water [and] mud together falling down within his eyes. With [his] prior agreement, [he did] not dare [to] arise [for] avoiding [them], thereupon causing [his] two eyes [to] together lose their sight.
世间凡夫亦复如是，亲近邪友习行非法，造作结业堕三恶道，长处生死丧智慧眼，如彼愚夫为其二妇故二眼俱失。
[The] world’s ordinary beings [are] likewise thus, getting close [to] evil friends, practising practices [that are] not [of the] Dharma, creating fettering karmas, falling [into the] three evil paths, long dwelling [in the cycle of] birth [and] death, [and] losing wisdom’s eye, like that foolish husband, because of his two wives thus, [with his] two eyes completely lost.
[Note: There should not be, for juggling between many trivial worldly benefits to maintain them out of greed, forsaking the wise course of action (e.g. learning and practising the Right Dharma (正法) from good-knowing friends (善知识). Otherwise, not only will the worldly benefits be lost soon, there will be no spiritual benefits from liberation attained too.]
Namo Amituofo : Translation and notes by Shen Shi’an
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