[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) › [大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736) › 3.38 # 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 3.38 大方廣佛華嚴經隨疏演義鈔 3.38 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.3.38) 疏「二遍成諸行」下，釋行布從始迄終，故云乃至，則五位所行皆此攝也。菩提心為始，體即三心，謂一直心，正念真如法故，即是大智無所執著。二深心，樂修一切諸善行故，即是大願，謂四弘等。三大悲心，救護一切苦眾生故。七十八云「菩提心燈，大悲為油，大願為炷，光照法界。」光即直心，炷即深心，油即大悲心。多以三心為體，上求下化，照理起行不出此故。言相者，即無相為相，同法界相。無分量相，無齊限相也。言功德者，無德不收故。〈發心品〉十種大喻、百門較量，亦不及少分。七十八卷廣以喻歎，亦不能盡。〈賢首品〉云「若有菩薩初發心，誓求當證佛菩提，彼諸功德無邊際，不可稱量無與等。」〈發心品〉云「發心功德不可量，眾智共說無能盡。」又云「菩薩發心功德量，億劫稱揚不可盡，以出一切諸如來，獨覺聲聞安樂故」等，皆發心功德也。又云「欲見十方一切佛，欲施無量功德藏，欲滅眾生諸苦惱，宜應速發菩提心。」此上三事，皆是發菩提心為萬行之本，故首明之。即此發心，便名為行。 > Regarding the Commentary's 'Second, universally perfecting all practices' and below: this explains the ordered gradation of practice from beginning to end, which is why it says 'and so forth'; thus, all practices carried out across the five stages are subsumed under this. Bodhicitta is the beginning, and its essence consists of the three minds: First, the direct mind (ṛjumati), because it mindfully reflects upon the dharma of tathatā; this is great wisdom, devoid of any attachment. Second, the profound mind (gabhīramati), because it delights in cultivating all virtuous practices; this is great vow, meaning the four vast vows and the like. Third, the mind of great compassion, because it rescues and protects all suffering sentient beings. Fascicle 78 states: 'In the lamp of bodhicitta, great compassion is the oil, the great vow is the wick, and its light shines upon the dharmadhātu.' The light is the direct mind, the wick is the profound mind, and the oil is the mind of great compassion. For the most part, the three minds constitute the essence; seeking \[enlightenment\] above and transforming \[sentient beings\] below, illuminating the principle and initiating practice—none of this exceeds these. As for its characteristics, it takes signlessness as its characteristic, identical to the characteristic of the dharmadhātu; it is a characteristic without quantitative measure, a characteristic without limit. As for its merits, none are not gathered within it. The ten great metaphors and the hundred gates of comparison in the 'Chapter on Arousing the Aspiration' cannot match even a tiny fraction of it. Fascicle 78 broadly praises it through metaphors, yet still cannot exhaust it. The 'Chapter on Xian首' says: 'If there is a bodhisattva who first arouses the mind, / Vowing to seek the realization of the Buddha's bodhi, / Those merits of his are boundless, / Incalculable, and without equal.' The 'Chapter on Arousing the Aspiration' says: 'The merits of arousing the mind are immeasurable; / All wise beings proclaiming them together could never exhaust them.' It also says: 'The measure of a bodhisattva's merit in arousing the mind, / Proclaimed for hundreds of millions of kalpas, could not be exhausted, / Because it brings forth the bliss / Of all the Tathāgatas, pratyekabuddhas, and śrāvakas,' and so forth—these are all the merits of arousing the mind. It also says: 'One who wishes to see all Buddhas of the ten directions, / Wishes to bestow the treasury of immeasurable merit, / And wishes to extinguish all suffering and afflictions of sentient beings, / Should quickly arouse bodhicitta.' The above three matters all establish that the arousing of bodhicitta is the foundation of the myriad practices; therefore, it is explained first. This very arousal of the aspiration is then termed 'practice.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.3.37) - [Next: 3.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.3.39) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736~en-mt.3.38) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1736.3.38) · Pramāṇa