[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [金剛般若波羅蜜經略疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704) › 2.51 # 金剛般若波羅蜜經略疏 2.51 金剛般若波羅蜜經略疏 2.51 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704.2.51) 就第五、利他說法勝用，文中有二：初長行，總說生起；二偈頌，釋成。就偈文中有三段經：初一句，舉其法；次有二句，九義顯其觀相；三有一句，結以觀成。言九義者：一星映不見，喻能見心法有而不見。二翳者，見毛輪等色，有為法亦爾，以顛倒見故。三燈者，識亦如是，依止貪愛法住故。四幻者，所依住處亦如是，以器世間種種差別無一體實故。五露者，身亦如是，以少時住故。六泡者，所愛事亦如是，以受想行三法不定故。七夢者，過去法亦如是，以唯有念故。八電者，現在法亦如是，剎那不住故。九雲者，未來法亦如是，以於種子時，阿梨耶識與一切法為種子根本，無先因相故如雲。餘文可知。異現如星，無實如翳，速滅剎那若燈。緣成比幻，無常喻露，體空況泡，見實如夢，有用象電，無本並雲，二法中皆有九義不成實耳。 > Regarding the fifth \[part\], the supreme function of teaching the Dharma to benefit others, there are two \[sections\] in the text: First, the prose, generally stating the arising \[of the teaching\]. Second, the verse, explaining and completing it. Within the verse text, there are three segments of the sūtra: The first single line introduces the dharmas. Next, there are two lines using nine meanings to reveal their contemplative marks. Finally, there is one line concluding with the completion of the contemplation. As for the nine meanings: 1. Outshone by stars and unseen: an analogy for the mental dharmas capable of seeing being present yet unseen. 2. Cataracts: seeing hair-nets and other forms; conditioned dharmas are also like this, because of inverted views. 3. Lamps: consciousness is also like this, because it abides relying on the dharma of craving. 4. Illusions: the places depended upon for dwelling are also like this, because the various distinctions of the container world are without a single real substance. 5. Dewdrops: the body is also like this, because it abides for a brief time. 6. Bubbles: things that are loved are also like this, because the three dharmas of sensation, conception, and volition are impermanent. 7. Dreams: past dharmas are also like this, because there is only memory. 8. Lightning: present dharmas are also like this, because they do not abide for a kṣaṇa. 9. Clouds: future dharmas are also like this, because at the time of the seeds, the ālayavijñāna serves as the fundamental seed for all dharmas, without prior causal marks, hence it is like clouds. The rest of the text is understandable. Manifesting differently like stars, lacking reality like cataracts, swiftly extinguished in a kṣaṇa like lamps. Formed by conditions compared to illusions, impermanence likened to dew, empty of substance compared to bubbles, seeing reality like dreams, having function like lightning, lacking foundation like clouds—in both dharmas there are nine meanings that are not real. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704.2.50) - [Next: 2.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704.2.52) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704~en-mt.2.51) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (3) - [金剛般若經疏論纂要](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1701.2.278) — Classical Chinese - [金剛般若波羅蜜經論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.vajracchedika!vajracchedikaprajnaparamitasutrasastra*zh-bodhiruci.3.80) — Classical Chinese - [འཕགས་པ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གཅོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.prajnaparamita.vajracchedika*bo.24) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704.2.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1704.2.51) · Pramāṇa