The Awakening of Mahāvairocana 6.28

6.28

「復次祕密主！真言門修菩薩行諸菩薩如是自身影像生起無有殊勝過三菩提，如眼耳鼻舌身意等四大種攝持集聚，彼如是自性空，唯有名字所執，猶如虛空，無所執著，等於影像。彼如來成正覺，互相緣起無有間絕。若從緣生，彼即如影像生。是故諸本尊即我、我即本尊，互相發起身所生身尊形像生。祕密主！觀是法緣通達慧、通達慧緣法，彼等遞為作業，無住性空。祕密主！云何從意生？意能生影像。祕密主！譬如若白若黃若赤，作意者作時染著意生，彼同類如是身轉。祕密主！又如內觀意中漫荼羅療治熱病，彼眾生熱病即時除愈無有疑惑。非漫荼羅異意，非意異漫荼羅。何以故？彼漫荼羅一相故。祕密主！又如幻者幻作男子，而彼男子又復作化。祕密主！於意云何？彼何者為勝？」時金剛手白佛言：「世尊！此二人者，無相異也。何以故？世尊！非實生故。是二男子本性空故，等同於幻。如是祕密主，意生眾事及意所生，如是俱空，無二無別。」

He will see his own figure to be serene with the characteristics of a

Perfectly Awakened One.

[His] body produces the body-image [of a buddha], and [the mirror

of] the mind is produced by the mind,

And they always give rise to his own actions, pure and varied.

Then light rays emerge from him and completely illuminate [all

places] like flashes of lightning,

And the mantrin is able to perform all buddha deeds.

If his vision achieves purity, his hearing and so on will also be thus,

And he will be able to perform any deeds in accordance with what

he thinks in his mind.

“Next, Lord of Mysteries, bodhisattvas cultivating bodhisattva practices

via the gateway of mantras generate the [deity] image from their own body

in this manner: there is none so special as to surpass a saṃbuddha. Just as

the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind, and so on are an assemblage and

agglomeration of the four elements, so too is it thus empty of own-nature,

and there is only that which is grasped by name; it is just like empty space,

and there is nothing to be attached to, like a reflection. That Tathāgata accom-

plishes perfect awakening in uninterrupted mutual dependent arising. If some-

thing arises from conditions, then it arises like a reflection. Therefore, the

deity is oneself and oneself is the deity, and they generate each other. The

body[-image] produced by the body arises as the image of the deity.

“Lord of Mysteries, observe how this Dharma is dependent on the penetrating wisdom [of realization] and the penetrating wisdom [of realization] is dependent on the Dharma. They interact with each other, but are non-abiding and by nature empty.

“Lord of Mysteries, how does there arise from the mind the image produced by the mind? Lord of Mysteries, it is, for instance, just as when someone applies the mind to either white or yellow or red, and a mind imbued [with that color] arises. In the same way the body also operates. Lord of Mysteries, again it is like when one internally visualizes a maṇḍala in one’s mind and treats [someone’s] fever [with it], whereupon that being’s fever will be cured instantly, without any doubt. The maṇḍala is not different from the mind, and the mind is not different from the maṇḍala. Why? Because [the mind] has the selfsame characteristic as the maṇḍala. Lord of Mysteries, again it is as if an illusionist illusorily created a man, and that man again created an apparition. Lord of Mysteries, what do you think? Which of them would be superior?”

Thereupon Vajrapāṇi said to the Buddha, “World-honored One, there would be no difference between these two. Why? World-honored One, because they have not actually arisen, and because these two men are by their original nature empty, they are the same as illusions.”

“So it is, Lord of Mysteries. The mind producing things and that which is produced by the mind are in this manner both empty, nondual, and not separate.”

Chapter XXII

Recitation for the Accomplishment

of the Hundred Letters

Thereupon the World-honored One addressed the vajradhara Lord of Mys-