[62] Within the Three States (Sangai), or universes, of Desire, Form, and Formlessness; and within the Six Worlds, or conditions of being,—_Jigokudō_ (Hell), _Gakidō_ (Pretas), _Chikushōdō_ (Animal Life), _Shuradō_ (World of Fighting and Slaughter), _Ningendō_ (Mankind), _Tenjōdō_ (Heavenly Spirits)—all existence is included. Beyond there is only Nirvâna. “There is no fence,” “no neighborhood,”—that is to say, no limit beyond which to escape,—no middle-path between any two of these states. We shall be reborn into some one of them according to our karma.—Compare with No. 74. 77.—_Sangé ni wa sannen no tsumi mo hōrobu._ One confession effaces the sins of even three years. 78.—_San nin yoréba, kugai._ Where even three persons come together, there is a world of pain.[63] [63] _Kugai_ (lit.: “bitter world”) is a term often used to describe the life of a prostitute. 79.—_San nin yoréba, Monjū no chié._ Where three persons come together, there is the wisdom of _Monjū_.[64] [64] Monjū Bosatsu [_Mañdjus’ri Bodhisattva_] figures in Japanese Buddhism as a special divinity of wisdom.—The proverb signifies that three heads are better than one. A saying of like meaning is,_ Hiza to mo dankō:_ “Consult even with your own knee;” that is to say, Despise no advice, no matter how humble the source of it. 80.—_Shaka ni sekkyō._ Preaching to Sâkyamuni. 81.—_Shami kara chōrō._ To become an abbot one must begin as a novice. 82.—_Shindaréba, koso ikitaré._ Only by reason of having died does one enter into life.[65] [65] I never hear this singular proverb without being re-minded of a sentence in Huxley’s famous essay, _On the Physical Basis of Life:_—“The living protoplasm not only ultimately dies and is resolved into its mineral and lifeless constituents, but is always dying, and, strange as the paradox may sound, _could not live unless it died_.” 83.—_Shiranu ga, hotoké; minu ga, Gokuraku._ Not to know is to be a Buddha; not to see is Paradise. 84.—_Shōbo ni kidoku nashi._ There is no miracle in true doctrine.[66] [66] Nothing can happen except as a result of eternal and irrevocable law. 85.—_Shō-chié wa Bodai no samatagé._ A little wisdom is a stumbling-block on the way to Buddhahood.[67] [67] _Bodai_ is the same word as the Sanscrit _Bodhi_, signifying the supreme enlightenment,—the knowledge that leads to Buddhahood; but it is often used by Japanese Buddhists in the sense of divine bliss, or the Buddha-state itself. 86.—_Shōshi no kukai hetori nashi._ There is no shore to the bitter Sea of Birth and Death.[68] [68] Or, “the Pain-Sea of Life and Death.” 87.—_Sodé no furi-awasé mo tashō no en._ Even the touching of sleeves in passing is caused by some relation in a former life. 88.—_Sun zen; shaku ma._ An inch of virtue; a foot of demon.[69]