觀音玄義 1.26

1.26

復次，通教觀老死八苦如幻如化，眾生顛倒謂為真實，即起誓願；貪、恚、癡等如幻如化，眾生顛倒為之受惱，即起誓願；觀即色是空、即識是空，即貪、癡等是空，非色滅空，色性自空，空亦不可得，而眾生不能即色是空，即起誓願；又觀涅槃，若有一法過涅槃者我亦說如幻化，而眾生謂有佛道可求，即起誓願。是約無生四諦起慈悲誓願也。

Furthermore, the Shared teaching contemplates the eight sufferings of old age and death as like an illusion and like a transformation; seeing that sentient beings are inverted and consider them real, one immediately raises the vows. Greed, anger, delusion, and so forth are like an illusion and like a transformation; seeing that sentient beings are inverted and suffer distress because of them, one immediately raises the vows. Contemplating that form itself is empty, consciousness itself is empty, and greed, delusion, and so forth are themselves empty—that it is not through the destruction of form that there is emptiness, but the nature of form is empty of itself, and emptiness also cannot be obtained—yet sentient beings cannot realize that form itself is empty, one immediately raises the vows. Furthermore, contemplating nirvāṇa, [one knows that] even if there were any dharma surpassing nirvāṇa, I would also say it is like an illusion and like a transformation; yet sentient beings consider that there is a Buddha path to be sought, and so one immediately raises the vows. This is giving rise to the vows of benevolence and compassion in connection with the unproduced four truths.