觀音玄義 1.25

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但前明人法，凡聖不同；今辯慈悲，大小亦異。若三藏行人，觀分段生老病死八苦，即起誓願：眾生無邊誓願度；若觀分段顛倒結業，而起誓願：煩惱無量誓願斷；欲令眾生觀此因果無常生滅念念流動，修於道品，即起誓願：法門無量誓願知；若觀真諦無為之理，即起誓願：無上佛道誓願成。如此慈悲緣有作四諦所起也。

However, previously it was clarified that person and dharma differ between ordinary beings and sages; now in distinguishing benevolence and compassion, the great and the small are likewise different. If a practitioner of the Tripiṭaka contemplates the eight sufferings of birth, old age, sickness, and death in fragmentary [samsāra], he immediately raises the vow: 'Sentient beings are boundless, I vow to deliver them.' If he contemplates the inverted fettering karma of fragmentary [samsāra], he raises the vow: 'Afflictions are measureless, I vow to sever them.' Wishing to cause sentient beings to contemplate these causes and effects as impermanent, arising and ceasing, and flowing from thought to thought, and to cultivate the aids to the path, he immediately raises the vow: 'Dharma gates are measureless, I vow to know them.' If he contemplates the unconditioned principle of the truth of emptiness, he raises the vow: 'The unsurpassed Buddha path, I vow to achieve it.' Such benevolence and compassion arise in connection with the constructed four truths.