Visuddhimagga IX-99

Karuṇābrahmavihārassa ‘‘cakkhuviññeyyānaṃ rūpānaṃ iṭṭhānaṃ kantānaṃ manāpānaṃ manoramānaṃ lokāmisapaṭisaṃyuttānaṃ appaṭilābhaṃ vā appaṭilābhato samanupassato pubbe vā paṭiladdhapubbaṃ atītaṃ niruddhaṃ vipariṇataṃ samanussarato uppajjati domanassaṃ, yaṃ evarūpaṃ domanassaṃ, idaṃ vuccati gehasitaṃ domanassa’’ntiādinā (ma. ni. 3.307) nayena āgataṃ gehasitaṃ domanassaṃ vipattidassanasabhāgatāya āsannapaccatthikaṃ.

「悲梵住」,(1)「未得愿望的好乐的爱的悦意的适意的与世间品质相应的眼所识之色,而忆念其未得(而起忧),或者忆念过去已得的而今已成过去消灭及变易的而起忧,此等忧名为世俗的忧」,像此等所说的世俗的忧为(悲梵住的)近敌,因见失败(与悲)同类故。

Ñ(IX,99): Compassion has grief based on the home life as its near enemy, since both share in seeing failure. Such grief has been described in the way beginning, 'When a man either regards as a privation failure to obtain visible objects cognizable by the eye that are sought after, desired, agreeable, gratifying and associated with worldliness, or when he recalls those formerly obtained that are past, ceased and changed, then grief arises in him. Such grief as this is called grief based on the home life' (M.iii,218).



Sabhāgavisabhāgatāya vihiṃsā dūrapaccatthikā.

2)害是远敌,(与悲的)性质不同故。

Ñ: And cruelty, which is dissimilar to the similar grief, is its far enemy.



Tasmā tato nibbhayena karuṇāyitabbaṃ. Karuṇañca nāma karissati, pāṇiādīhi ca viheṭhissatīti aṭṭhānametaṃ.

是故当以无恐怖而行悲悯。若行悲悯而同时以手等去加害是不可能的。

Ñ: So compassion must be practised free from fear of that; for it is not possible to practise compassion and be cruel to breathing things simultaneously.



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