盲龜遇浮木難,以譬受人身難,值佛教難。見浮木條。
It is as easy for a blind turtle to find a floating long as it is for a man to be reborn as a man, or to meet with a buddha and his teaching.
盲龜 《阿含》云:佛告諸比丘:‘如大海中有一盲龜,壽無量劫,百年一過出頭,浮有一木,正有一孔,漂流海浪,隨流東西。盲龜百年一出,得過此孔,至海東。浮木或至海西,團繞亦爾,雖復差違,或復相得。凡夫漂流五趣之海,還復人身,甚難於此。’”又《莊嚴論》云:“有一小兒,聞佛說人身難得,如盲龜直浮木孔。小兒穿板作孔,置池水中,以頭出入,終不能入,曰‘盲龜在海,百年一出,何日值耶?我今為人,有於面目,一日百出,值木孔猶難。’”
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