Visuddhimagga VIII-35

175. Addhānaparicchedatoti manussānaṃ jīvitassa nāma etarahi paritto addhā.

（七）「以生命时间的限制」──现在人的生命的时间是很有限的。

Ñ(VIII,35): 7. As to the limitedness of the extent: the extent of human life is short now.

Yo ciraṃ jīvati, so vassasataṃ, appaṃ vā bhiyyo.

如果长寿者，亦不过百岁上下。

Ñ: One who lives long lives a hundred years, more or less.

Tenāha bhagavā –

所以世尊说：

Ñ: Hence the Blessed One said:

‘‘appamidaṃ, bhikkhave, manussānaṃ āyu,

「诸比丘，人寿短促，

Ñ: 'Bhikkhus, this human life span is short.

gamanīyo samparāyo,

不久便至来世。

Ñ: There is a new life to be gone to,

kattabbaṃ kusalaṃ,

故当作善，

Ñ: there are profitable [deeds] to be done,

caritabbaṃ brahmacariyaṃ,

当行梵行。

Ñ: there is the life of purity to be led.

natthi jātassa amaraṇaṃ.

生者决无不死。

Ñ: There is no not dying for the born.

Yo, bhikkhave, ciraṃ jīvati, so vassasataṃ, appaṃ vā bhiyyoti.

诸比丘，彼长寿者，百岁上下而已••••••」。

Ñ: He who lives long lives a hundred years, more or less …

Appamāyumanussānaṃ, hīḷeyya naṃ suporiso;

Careyyādittasīsova, natthi maccussa nāgamoti. (saṃ. ni. 1.145);

人寿甚短促，

善人时轻蔑；

如行救头燃；

无有死不来。

Ñ: 'The life of humankind is short;

A wise man holds it in contempt

And acts as one whose head is burning;

Death will never fail to come' (S.i,108).

Aparampi āha – ‘‘bhūtapubbaṃ, bhikkhave, arako nāma satthā ahosī’’ti sabbampi sattahi upamāhi alaṅkataṃ suttaṃ vitthāretabbaṃ.

又说：「诸比丘！往昔有师名阿罗迦」，一切亦在以七种譬喻庄严的经中详说。

Ñ: And he said further: 'Bhikkhus, there was once a teacher called Araka ...' (A.iv,136), all of which sutta should be given in full, adorned as it is with seven similes.