大毘盧遮那成佛神變加持經 (Shubhakarasimha & Yixing 724) 2.21
The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sutra 2.21
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2.21
The practitioner should take him inside [the maṇḍala] and reveal
the samaya verses:
“Son of the Buddha, henceforth, not begrudging of life or limb,
You should never abandon the Dharma, forsake the bodhi-mind,
Be miserly with any dharmas, or do anything that does not benefit
beings.
The Buddha has taught the samaya for you who abide well in the
precepts,
And just as you guard your life, so too should you guard the precepts.”
With utmost sincerity and reverence [the disciple] should bow down
at the feet of the honored [ācārya],
And acting in conformity with the teaching, he must not engender
any doubting thoughts.
Thereupon Vajrapāṇi said to the Buddha, “World-honored One, if any men of good [family] or women of good [family] enter the samaya of this great king of maṇḍalas ‘Born of the Matrix of Great Compassion,’ how great an accumulation of merit will they obtain?”
When Vajrapāṇi had finished speaking thus, the Buddha addressed him, saying, “Lord of Mysteries, the total accumulation of merit [obtained] from the initial generation of the [bodhi-]mind through to becoming a Tathāgata is exactly equivalent to the accumulation of merit by these men of good [family] or women of good [family]. Lord of Mysteries, by means of this gateway to the Dharma you should know thus: that these men of good [family] and women of good [family] are children of the Buddha’s mind, born of the Tathāgata’s mouth. Wherever these men of good [family] and women of good [family] may be, there is a buddha performing buddha deeds. Therefore, Lord of Mysteries, should one wish to worship the Buddha, then one should worship these men of good [family] and women of good [family], and should one wish to see the Buddha, then one should look at them.”
Then the vajradharas headed by Vajrapāṇi and so on and the bodhisattvas headed by Samantabhadra and so on spoke in unison, saying, “Worldhonored One, from now on we shall revere and worship these men of good [family] and women of good [family]. Why? Because, World-honored One, seeing these men of good [family] and women of good [family] is the same as seeing the World-honored Buddha.”
Thereupon the World-honored One Vairocana again gazed upon the
entire assembly and addressed the vajradhara Lord of Mysteries and the
other vajradharas, as well as the great multitude, saying, “Good sirs, there
are mantra phrases [born of] the mark of the Tathāgata’s supramundane and
immeasurably vast speech-circle (i.e., tongue), which are like a variegated
maṇi, fulfill all wishes, accumulate immeasurable merit, abide in unimpeded
conduct, and have a power incomparable through the three ages.”
When he had finished speaking thus, Vajrapāṇi, the Lord of Mysteries,
and the other vajradharas, as well as the great assembly, spoke in unison,
saying, “World-honored One, now is the time! Sugata, now is the time!”
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