觀音義疏 1.46

1.46

次明菩薩本修圓觀所起慈悲者，但觀一火具十法界，一切諸法入火字門，於一火門雖無分別，明識一切果報火、業火、煩惱火等，明了通達，無緣慈悲遍覆一切，是為火門入王三昧。若法界火起，菩薩以本地誓願普應眾生，如磁石吸鐵。雖無分別而分別說者，以十五三昧救果報火，用二十四三昧救修因火；二十五三昧通救二乘通教六度別圓等入空煩惱火；還用二十五三昧救別教山假火；還用二十五三昧圓救圓教人入中煩惱火，雖應入諸火，不為諸火所燒。《大集經》云：「譬如虛空，火災起時所不能燒，菩薩亦如是，以不思議慈悲普應一切，皆得解脫也。」常途釋七難，止解得救人中苦，失二十四有及變易中苦，止得如幻三昧少分，全失二十四三昧廣大之用也。

Next, explaining the compassion arisen from the bodhisattva's original cultivation of the perfect contemplation: one simply contemplates that a single fire contains the ten dharma realms, and all dharmas enter the gate of the syllable fire. Although within the single fire-gate there is no differentiation, one clearly recognizes all fires of retributive result, fires of karma, fires of affliction, and so on; clearly understanding and penetrating them, compassion without conditions covers all universally. This is entering the king samādhi through the fire-gate. If the fire of the dharma realm arises, the bodhisattva universally responds to sentient beings with original vows, like a magnet drawing iron. Though there is no differentiation, speaking with differentiation: with fifteen samādhis, the fire of retributive result is rescued; with twenty-four samādhis, the fire of cultivated causes is rescued; with twenty-five samādhis, the fire of affliction entering emptiness is comprehensively rescued for the two vehicles, the Shared teaching, the six perfections, the Separate, and the Perfect; again using twenty-five samādhis, the provisional fire of the mountain of the Separate teaching is rescued; and again using twenty-five samādhis, the fire of affliction entering the middle for people of the Perfect teaching is rescued perfectly. Although responding by entering all fires, [the bodhisattva] is not burned by them. The Daji jing says: 'Just as empty space cannot be burned when the disaster of fire arises, the bodhisattva is also like this: with inconceivable compassion universally responding to all, all attain liberation.' The ordinary interpretations of the seven perils only understand the rescue of suffering among humans, missing the suffering in the twenty-four realms of existence and transformational [birth and death]; they only attain a small portion of the illusion-like samādhi, completely losing the vast functioning of the twenty-five samādhis.