昔有一人至妇家舍，见其捣米，便往其所偷米唵之。
In the past, there was a person who arrived at his wife’s family house. Seeing their hulled rice, then going to that place, stealing rice by holding it in his mouth.
妇来见夫欲共其语，满口中米都不应和，羞其妇故不肯弃之，是以不语。
The wife, seeing her husband, desired to speak to him. With his mouth within full of rice, to all he did not respond. Ashamed that his wife knows thus, not willing to give it up, with this not speaking.
妇怪不语，以手摸看谓其口肿，语其父言：「我夫始来卒得口肿，都不能语。」
The wife, finding it strange that he did not speak, with her hand touching and looking, thinking his mouth was swollen, spoke to her father, saying, ‘My husband who just came suddenly got his mouth swollen, with all not able to speak.’
其父即便唤医治之。时医言曰：「此病最重，以刀决之可得差耳。」即便以刀决破其口，米从中出其事彰露。
Her father immediately called a doctor to cure him. Then, the doctor said, ‘This sickness is most serious. Only with a knife breaching it, can he get recovery.’ Immediately with a knife breaching open his mouth, the rice from within fell out, with this matter clearly exposed.
世间之人亦复如是，作诸恶行犯于净戒，覆藏其过不肯发露，堕于地狱畜生饿鬼。
People of the world are likewise thus, doing all evil practices, with violating of the pure precepts, covering to hide their faults, not willing to reveal them, falling to be hell-beings, animals and hungry ghosts.
如彼愚人以小羞故不肯吐米，以刀决口乃显其过。
Like that foolish person with a small shameful matter, thus not willing to spit out the rice, with a knife breaching his mouth, thus revealing his faults.
[Note 1: There should be swift confession of faults, even those small, to the relevant persons, followed by remedial actions. The swifter these are done, the less the evil karmas (恶业) leading to suffering in the present and future lives there will be.]
[Note 2: When there is a precept broken, there should immediately be the 3R‘s – sincere Repentance (忏悔) for the precept broken, Resolution to not break it again, and ‘Revival’ of the precept, by not letting it remain ‘dead’, and by not ‘killing’ the other precepts. Instead, there should be better observation of all precepts after. (True Repentance should already include Resolution and Revival as above, but they are at times forgotten.)]
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