[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) › [華嚴經探玄記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733) › 16.6 # 華嚴經探玄記 16.6 華嚴經探玄記 16.6 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.16.6) 四釋文中二：先略、後廣。前中亦二：先明果用攝益、後「又菩薩」下明因用攝益。前中，何故佛自說者？古人釋云：前〈僧祇品〉明因究竟，此品明果究竟，故但佛說。又釋：明相極至小、用極廣大，此事難明，故佛自說。告寶手者，能採取故。海王隨形好者，是足下相輪處大相邊隨好之小相也，以餘大相業用難明，故說最下相輪之用。又以相輪大相猶難明故說隨好，隨好猶多故說海王一好。此是果用猶亦難明，故說在兜率為菩薩時之攝益。就此因用二：初令離苦生天成安樂行、二「生天上已」以下令不著天樂成饒益行。亦是前身光益、後是空聲益。前中，令淨十眼等者，以彼眾生宿有見聞普賢法種，復遇舍那法界光觸，故得十眼普賢之益。二天上益中，初示聲名不可樂者，不令著樂故。下正說法，有四因緣得生天上：初不放逸者，厭惡對治；二宿植勝善；三曾遇善友；四今佛加持，由此生天。示此因果，不應放逸。 > Fourth, in explaining the text, there are two parts: first brief, then extensive. The former also has two parts: first explaining the gathering and benefiting through the fruit's function, and later, from "Furthermore, the bodhisattva…" onward, explaining the gathering and benefiting through the cause's function. In the former, why does the Buddha speak it himself? Ancient commentators explained: the preceding "Chapter on Asaṃkhyeyas" explained the culmination of the cause, while this chapter explains the culmination of the fruit; hence only the Buddha speaks it. Another explanation is: to explain that the mark is extremely minute while its function is extremely vast—because this matter is difficult to comprehend, the Buddha speaks it himself. That he addresses Ratnahasta is because \[he\] is able to collect and take up \[the teachings\]. The subsidiary minor mark of the "Ocean King" is a minor mark of the subsidiary marks at the edge of the great mark on the area of the wheel markings on the soles of the feet. Because the karmic functions of the other great marks are difficult to comprehend, he explains the function of the lowest wheel mark. Furthermore, because the great mark of the wheel mark is still difficult to comprehend, he explains the subsidiary marks; and because the subsidiary marks are still numerous, he explains just one subsidiary mark, the Ocean King. Because this fruit-function is still difficult to comprehend, he explains the gathering and benefiting \[performed\] when \[the Buddha\] was a bodhisattva in Tuṣita. Regarding this causal function, there are two parts: first, causing them to leave suffering, be born in heaven, and accomplish the practice of peace and joy; second, from "having been born in heaven…" onward, causing them not to cling to heavenly pleasures and accomplishing the practice of enriching benefits. This also means that the former is the benefit of the physical light, and the latter is the benefit of the voice from the sky. In the former, as for causing them to purify the ten eyes and so forth: because those sentient beings formerly possessed the seed of hearing and seeing the Dharma of Samantabhadra, and furthermore encountered the touch of Rocana's dharmadhātu light, they attained the benefit of the ten eyes of Samantabhadra. In the second part, the benefit in heaven, first showing that sounds and names are not to be delighted in is in order to keep them from clinging to pleasure. Below, in properly expounding the Dharma, there are four causes and conditions for being born in heaven: first, non-laxity, which is the antidote that feels revulsion toward evil; second, having planted superior good in past lives; third, having once encountered good friends; fourth, the present Buddha's empowerment: by these they were born in heaven. Showing these causes and effects, they should not be lax. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.16.5) - [Next: 16.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.16.7) - [Up: 16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.16) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733~en-mt.16.6) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1733.16.6) · Pramāṇa