譬如五人共买一婢，其中一人语此婢言：「与我浣衣。」
For example, five persons together bought a servant. Among then, a person spoke to this servant, saying, ‘For me wash my clothes.’
次有一人复语浣衣。
Next, there was a person, who again said, ‘Wash my clothes.’
婢语次者：「先与其浣。」
The servant said to that next person, ‘I will first for that person wash.’
后者恚曰：「我共前人，同买于汝，云何独尔？」
The latter angrily said, ‘As I, together with the previous person, together bought you, why are you only for him washing thus?’
即鞭十下，如是五人各打十下。
Then whipping him ten times, thus with the five persons each beating him ten times.
五阴亦尔，烦恼因缘合成此身，而此五阴恒以生老病死无量苦恼搒笞众生。
The five aggregates are likewise thus, with afflictions as causes and conditions composing this body. And these five aggregates are constantly with birth, ageing, sickness, death, immeasurable suffering and afflictions beating and whipping sentient beings.
[Note 1: The five aggregates (五蕴) are (i) form (色), (ii) feelings (受), (iii) perception (想), (iv) mental formation (行) and (v) consciousness (识).]
[Note 2: When the five aggregates gather and are attached to, this creates the illusion of self (我), with this as the root of afflictions. Afflictions that arise, when attached to, then further fortify the illusion of self.
Despite this ‘self’ being with the five aggregates, the latter ‘sabotage’ the first with much suffering, that occur in this life (between birth and death), and recur from life to life (in many rebirths and ‘redeaths’).]
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