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[54] The Parable Of The Snake’s Head And Tail Together Disputing Who To Be At The Front From The Sūtra Of A Hundred Parables《百喻经》之蛇头尾共争在前喻

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譬如有蛇,尾语头言:「我应在前。」

For example, there is a snake, with the tail speaking to the head, saying, ‘I should be at the front.’

头语尾言:「我恒在前,何以卒尔?」

The head spoke to the tail, saying, ‘As I am constantly at the front, why do you suddenly want thus?’

头果在前,其尾缠树不能得去,放尾在前,即堕火坑烧烂而死。

With the head resolutely at the front, that tail wound around a tree and the snake was not able to get going. Placing the tail at the front, then failing into a fire pit, he burnt completely and died.

师徒弟子亦复如是,言师耆老每恒在前,我诸年少应为导首。

Teachers and disciples are likewise thus, with the disciples saying, ‘As our teachers are elderly and each is constantly at the front, I and all the young should be the guiding leaders.’

如是年少不闲戒律多有所犯,因即相牵入于地狱。

Thus are the young, who are not proficient with the precepts and rules, with many having those violated, because of this leading one another to have entering of the hells.

[Note: As the foolish have inverted (颠倒) thinking, they are easily deluded with arrogance, assuming they are already very capable in their Dharma learning and practice, when they are still very incapable. Thus making many ethical mistakes, leading themselves and others to much suffering.]

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