《百喻经》
[The] Sūtra [Of A] Hundred Parables
（七七）构驴乳喻
[77] Parable [Of] Forming Donkey Milk
昔边国人不识于驴，闻他说言驴乳甚美，都无识者。
[In the] past, [a] border country’s people [did] not [have] understanding of donkeys. Hearing others say donkey milk [is] extremely delicious, [with] all without those understanding [it].
尔时诸人得一父驴，欲构其乳，诤共捉之，其中有捉头者、有捉耳者、有捉尾者、有捉脚者，复有捉器者，各欲先得于前饮之。
At that time, all people got a male donkey, desiring [to] form its milk. Disputing together [and] clutching it, within them having those clutching [the] head, those clutching [the] ears, those clutching [the] tail, those clutching [the] legs, also having those clutching [the] genitals, [with] each desiring [to] first get to [the] front [to] drink it.
中捉驴根谓呼是乳，即便构之望得其乳。
[One] within, clutching [the] donkey’s [male] organ, cried out [that it] is [the] ‘udder’, immediately [with the] hope of forming [and] getting its milk.
众人疲厌都无所得，徒自劳苦空无所获，为一切世人之所嗤笑。
All [the] people [became] weary, all without that gotten, in vain toiling [with] suffering, empty without that obtained, by all [the] world’s people as those sneered [at].
外道凡夫亦复如是，闻说于道不应求处，妄生想念，起种种邪见，裸形自饿投岩赴火，以是邪见堕于恶道，如彼愚人妄求于乳。
External paths’ ordinary beings [are] likewise thus. Hearing speaking of [the] path, [at] places [where there] should not [be] seeking [of it], falsely giving rise [to] thoughts, raising all kinds [of] evil views. [With] naked forms, self-starving, throwing [themselves off] cliffs [and] going [into] fires, with these evil views falling into evil paths, [they are] like those foolish persons [with] false seeking of [the] ‘udder’.
[Note: There should be learning for practising of the right path to liberation at the right places via the right teachers. Otherwise, with personal and/or others’ deluded speculations, there might be extreme ascetic practices from external paths learnt and practised, that not only lead away from liberation, but more deeply into the cycle of birth and death too.]
Namo Amituofo : Translation and notes by Shen Shi’an
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