善なれども大善をやぶる小善は悪道に堕つるなるべし - even if one performs a good deed, should it be an act of lesser good that destroys great good, it will cause one to fall into the evil paths.

本文
　
当世は正・像二千年すぎて末法に入つて二百余年、見濁さかりにして悪よりも善根にて多く悪道に堕つべき時刻なり悪は愚癡の人も悪としればしたがはぬ辺もあり火を水を以てけすが如し、善は但善と思ふほどに小善に付いて大悪の起る事をしらず、所以に伝教・慈覚等の聖跡あり・すたれあばるれども念仏堂にあらずといひて・すてをきて・そのかたはらにあたらしく念仏堂をつくり彼の寄進の田畠をとりて念仏堂によす、此等は像法決疑経の文の如くならば功徳すくなしとみへはべり、これらをもつてしるべし善なれども大善をやぶる小善は悪道に堕つるなるべし
　

南条兵衛七郎殿御書（慰労書）（１４９５頁）　文永元年１２月

通解（意訳）
　
末法に入った今は、悪い事をして悪道に落ちるよりも、善い行いをしたことによって多くの人が悪道に堕ちる時である。
悪い事は、愚かな人でも従わない。これは火を水で消すようなもので、世間の道理に適っている事であるから、分かり易い。
しかし、善い行いをする事は、世間の道理の上ではただ善い事であるとしか思わないので、小さな善行によって、仏法上では大悪を起こしていることを知らないのである。
例えば、はるか昔に建立された法華経の聖堂（寺院）があり、その寺院が荒れ果てているのを知って、「この荒れた寺院の隣に法華経以外の立派な寺院を造って、古い寺院を取り壊して、そこを田畑にし、新しい寺院に寄与しよう」という事である。
世間上では、古い寺院を新しくして、寄付しようとする善行に見える。しかし、仏法の道理で見れば、法華経の寺院を取り壊し、法華経以外の寺院を建立することは、大きな謗法であり、これが大悪であるという事を知らないが故の事である。
これらのことから、善い事であっても大善を破るような小善は、悪道に堕ちることを知るべきである。
　
意訳
　
　
English Translations

" Encouragement to a Sick Person "
　
Now the two thousand years of the Former and Middle Days of the Law have passed, and it has been more than two hundred years since the Latter Day began. Now is the time when, because the impurity of thought prevails, more people fall into the evil paths with the intention of creating good causes than they do by committing evil. As for evil acts, even ignorant people, if they recognize them for what they are, may refrain from committing them. This is like extinguishing a fire with water. But people think that good deeds are all equal in their goodness; thus they adhere to lesser good and do not realize that, in doing so, they bring about major evil. Therefore, even when they see sacred structures related to Dengyō, Jikaku, and others that are neglected and in disrepair, they leave them as they are for the simple reason that they are not halls dedicated to the Nembutsu. Instead, they build Nembutsu halls beside those sacred structures, confiscate the lands that have been donated to them, and offer them to the halls they have erected. According to a passage of the Sutra on Resolving Doubts about the Middle Day of the Law, such deeds will bring few benefits. You should understand from the above that even if one performs a good deed, should it be an act of lesser good that destroys great good, it will cause one to fall into the evil paths.
 

"The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin", Vol.1, P 78 - 79

Interpretation (liberal translation)
　
 Present is latter age, so many people are when it falls in a hell, by doing a bad thing and doing conduct better for a hell than the person who falls. Even a stupid person doesn't follow a bad thing. Because this is to put out the fire for water and is to be suitable for the reason of the people, it's easy to understand.  The person who doesn't know a Lotus Sutra thinks it's that the reason of the people is fine to do good conduct. But I don't know that this is a serious villainy by the reason of the Buddhism.
 For example , there is a temple of a built Lotus Sutra in the far past, but the temple has begun to collapse in now. The person who thought he did a good thing there. A wonderful temple besides the Lotus Sutra was made, an old cathedral was demolished and there was made the fields next to the temple which has begun to collapse, and contributed to a new temple.  This is seen to improve it by the reason of the people. But when judging by the reason of the Buddhism, person doesn't know that it's the big villainy which makes the Lotus Sutra shabby, so it falls in a hell.
 Even a good thing should learn from these things that the small goodness which destroys big goodness falls in a hell.

参考文献：「御書をひもとく」「英語で学ぶ御書」　第三文明社
Bibliography : "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin"
"The Record of The Orally Transmitted Teachings"

御書をひもとく 英語で学ぶ御書 The Writings of NICHIREN DAISHONIN Vol.1 The Writings of NICHIREN DAISHONIN Vol.2

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