般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊 1.35

1.35

Next, one should cultivate practice. In this there are two kinds: first, summarized; second, extensive. The summarized again has three: first, the object; second, the practice; third, the fruit that is attained. Just as formerly one did not know the spheres of truth and falsity, giving rise to afflictions and so forth and thus suffering many pains, now one directly overturns them, and therefore there are also three. For this reason, one should first carefully contemplate the object; having known good and evil, the practice of cultivation and abandonment is accomplished; and the causal practices having been completed, the virtues of the fruit are thereupon realized. Although the holy teachings of the Buddhas are boundless, their explanation of the gates of cultivation does not exceed three kinds; therefore practitioners should train in reliance on this.