好生救劫编
杀生之罪。由于男子者居多。而本于妇女者。亦复不少。盖妇女职司中馈。刀七是供。
鳖脍鲤。多出其手。此为见生致死。闻声食肉。惨尤甚焉。世间闺阁。慈柔恻隐之性。
每胜于男。而于此溺于习俗。独有漫不知警者。抑思人生得女人身。五漏之体。劣于
男子。若复多害物命。夙愆未洗。恶业又加。则罪报尤重。尝观女流。易罹 瘕。痨瘵胎
产诸患。根寻其理。杀业与焉。昔 崛摩罗。巡乞至一人家。适妇以难产求救。摩罗归
问佛。佛曰。汝可于产母榻前抗声曰。我从贤圣法中来。未曾杀生。儿闻此言。无不产
者。摩罗如教。儿果诞生。又法师梵臻夜坐。见一妇人。哀恳曰。请师到家。师从至其门。
见数人舁此妇床上。大刀斫之如泥。少时复活。泣曰。外家生前善作 。今受此报。师为
授戒。遂得超脱。嗟乎。杀生还报。不杀度厄。罪福彰彰。秋毫弗爽矣。抑更有进者。兵革
之世。妇女罹殃。荼苦尤甚。或全城遇掠。或阖家系累。死别生离。谁非孽报耶。盖有情
之类。眷属无异。至于突遭屠割。俯就烹 。存雌去雄。弃子存母。衔冤蓄恨。饮泣吞声。
天道好还。出尔反尔。徒以信宿轮回。改易躯壳。倘令慧眼观之。正如投桃报李耳。夫
闺闱贤达。自能戒杀放生。造福无涯。允臻善果。倘在中庸以下。积习昏沉。吾愿慈母
贤姑。哲夫孝子。苦口缓颊。曲陈罪报。感触天性。庶几听从悔改。使门内杀业永消。冤
仇不立。凡诸疾苦夭横。殃祸流离。俱可禳解矣。岂不自他兼利也哉。
《好生救劫编》
杀害生灵所获的罪过，大多由男子造成。但源于妇女的，也不在少数。因为妇女的职责在于主持家务烹饪，刀砧之事是她们的工作。切好的鳖肉和鲤鱼片，多出自她们之手。这是亲眼看着活物致死，听着叫声便吃肉，其残忍程度尤为严重。世间闺阁之中，妇女慈爱温柔、恻隐之心，往往胜过男子。然而在此事上却沉溺于习俗，唯独没有人感到警醒。
试思考一下，人得以获得女人身，已是“五漏”之体（指女性生理缺陷或福报不足），比男子低劣。如果再加上多害物命，过去的罪愆未洗，新的恶业又加，那么罪报将更加深重。曾见女子容易罹患瘕积（腹中结块）、痨瘵（肺结核等慢性消耗性疾病）、胎产等各种疾病。追根溯源其道理，其中就有杀业的因素。
从前，崛摩罗外出乞食到一户人家，恰好遇到一位妇人因难产求救。崛摩罗回去问佛，佛说：“你可以站在产母床前大声说道：‘我从贤圣法中来，未曾杀生。’婴儿听到这句话，没有不能出生的。”崛摩罗照做，婴儿果然出生。
又有法师梵臻夜间打坐，看见一个妇人哀求道：“请师父到我家去。”法师跟随她到了门口，看见几个人抬着这位妇人放在床上，用大刀砍她像切泥一样。过了一会儿妇人复活，哭着说：“娘家生前善于制作面食（此处原文可能有缺字或通假，结合语境推测为某种祭祀或食物制作相关的善行或恶行，通常此类故事指杀生供神或类似行为，此处依原文直译‘善作...’，但根据后文‘受此报’及佛教因果，通常指杀生。鉴于原文‘善作 ’中间有空格或缺字，暂译为‘擅长制作[某物]’，但在佛教故事中常指杀生祭神或类似。此处严格按字面‘善作’翻译，保留原意模糊性，或理解为‘善于做[导致果报的事]’。注：原文‘善作 ’后似有脱文，常见版本为‘善作齑’或类似。此处依现有文本处理）。”如今遭受这样的报应。法师为她传授戒律，她便得以超脱。
唉！杀生会有还报，不杀能度过厄难，罪与福的报应清清楚楚，丝毫不差。
更进一步说，在战乱兵革之世，妇女遭受的灾殃，痛苦尤其深重。有的全城被掠夺，有的全家被捆绑囚禁，死别生离，难道不是孽障的报应吗？有情众生之间，眷属并无不同。至于突然遭遇屠割，俯首接受烹煮，留下雌性留下雄性，抛弃孩子保全母亲，含着冤屈积蓄怨恨，哭泣吞声。天道喜好循环往复，你怎样对待别人，别人就怎样对待你。仅仅因为信宿轮回，改变了躯壳罢了。如果用慧眼观看，这正如投桃报李一样自然。
闺阁中的贤德女子，自然能戒杀放生，造福无边，必定达到善果。如果是中等资质以下的人，积习昏沉，我希望慈爱的母亲、贤惠的姑嫂、明智的丈夫、孝顺的儿子，苦口婆心、委婉地陈述罪报的道理，触动她们的天性，或许就能听从并悔改，使家门内的杀业永远消除，冤仇不再建立。所有的疾苦、夭折横死、灾祸流离，都可以禳解消除。这岂不是自利利他吗？
*Hao Sheng Jie Jie Bian* (Compilation on Preserving Life and Saving from Calamity)
The sin of killing living beings is committed mostly by men. However, those originating from women are also not few. Since women's duty lies in managing the household kitchen, handling knives and chopping boards is their work. Sliced turtle meat and carp sashimi often come from their hands. This constitutes watching living creatures die and eating meat while hearing their cries; the cruelty is particularly severe. Within households, women naturally possess a gentler, more compassionate nature than men. Yet, in this matter, they indulge in customs without any sense of alarm.
Consider that obtaining a female body is already considered a "Five-Leak Body" (a term indicating physiological or karmic inferiority compared to males), which is inferior to the male form. If one further harms many lives, failing to cleanse past sins while adding new evil karma, the retribution will be even heavier. It is observed that women are prone to various ailments such as *xia* (abdominal masses), *lao zhai* (consumptive diseases like tuberculosis), and difficulties in pregnancy and childbirth. Tracing the root cause, killing karma plays a role.
In the past, Ju Mo Luo (Kumaraloca?) went begging to a household and happened upon a woman suffering from difficult labor. He returned to ask the Buddha, who said, "You may stand before the parturient bed and loudly declare: 'I come from the Dharma of the Sages and have never killed.' The child, hearing these words, will surely be born." Kumaraloca followed this instruction, and the child was indeed born.
Another instance involves the monk Fan Zhen. While meditating at night, he saw a woman pleading, "Please, Master, come to my home." The monk followed her to the door and saw several people carrying the woman onto a bed, hacking at her with large knives as if cutting mud. After a short while, she revived and wept, saying, "My natal family was skilled in making [missing text/food items] in life, and now I suffer this retribution." The monk bestowed precepts upon her, and she attained liberation.
Alas! Killing brings retribution; refraining from killing helps one overcome calamities. The distinctions between sin and virtue are clear and precise, not missing by a hair's breadth.
Furthermore, in times of war and turmoil, women suffer calamities with exceptional bitterness. Some cities are plundered entirely; some families are bound and imprisoned. Death and separation—could these not be retributions for past misdeeds? Sentient beings regard their relatives as no different from themselves. To suddenly face slaughter, submitting to cooking, leaving females behind while taking males, abandoning children to save mothers, harboring grievances and hatred, weeping silently. The Heavenly Dao favors reciprocity; what you do to others returns to you. It is merely due to the cycle of reincarnation over brief periods that the shell changes. If viewed through the wisdom eye, it is just like giving a peach and receiving a plum in return.
Virtuous women within the inner quarters can naturally abstain from killing and release lives, creating boundless merit and surely attaining good fruits. For those of average capacity or below, weighed down by habitual obscurity, I wish that loving mothers, virtuous sisters-in-law, wise husbands, and filial sons would earnestly and gently explain the principles of retribution, touching their innate nature, so that they might listen and repent. Thus, the killing karma within the household will be forever eliminated, and grudges will not arise. All illnesses, premature deaths, disasters, and displacements can then be averted. Is this not benefiting both oneself and others?