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金光明經文句記 3.229

金光明經文句記 3.229

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Classical Chinese

3.229

初、釋不識諸佛。十力者,一是處非處力、二業力、三定力、四根力、五欲力、六性力、七至處道力、八宿命力、九天眼力、十漏盡力。此十通名力者,即諸佛所得如實智用,通達一切了了分明,無能壞無能勝,故名力也。大菩薩亦分得比力,但比佛小劣故,沒不受名故,直名佛為十力也。此之十力,法佛本具,報佛證之,應佛用之。眾生色心依正因果,舉體即是三佛十力,但以迷故全智為惑,名煩惱障,而獨頭無明為煩惱種,蓋由觸處不了法身故,喻牛羊鳥雀之眼,不識天子及以檠像。以不了故,三細六麁熾然而起。言檠像者,累土木為佛像也,人知畏敬,鳥雀不然。或引《周禮》正弓之檠者,非此中意。

First, explaining 'not knowing the Buddhas'. Regarding the ten powers: the first is the power of knowing what is possible and impossible; the second, the power of knowing karma; the third, the power of knowing dhyānas; the fourth, the power of knowing the faculties; the fifth, the power of knowing inclinations; the sixth, the power of knowing natures; the seventh, the power of knowing the paths that lead everywhere; the eighth, the power of knowing past lives; the ninth, the power of the divine eye; and the tenth, the power of the destruction of outflows. These ten are collectively called 'powers' because they are the functioning of the wisdom according with reality attained by all Buddhas, which penetrates everything with complete clarity, cannot be destroyed, and cannot be overcome; hence they are called 'powers'. Great bodhisattvas also partially attain powers comparable to these, but because they are slightly inferior to the Buddha's, their [name] is suppressed and they do not receive the title, so that only the Buddha is directly named 'the One of Ten Powers'. These ten powers are fundamentally inherent in the Dharma-body Buddha, realized by the Retribution-body Buddha, and utilized by the Response-body Buddha. The sentient beings' physical forms and minds, their environments and bodies, their causes and effects—their entire substance is none other than the ten powers of the three Buddhas; but because they are deluded, their entire wisdom becomes affliction, which is called the afflictive obstacle. Unshared ignorance is the seed of affliction, simply because wherever one encounters things, one does not understand the Dharma-body—analogous to the eyes of cattle, sheep, birds, and sparrows, which recognize neither the Son of Heaven nor a carved image. Because they do not understand, the three subtle and six coarse [afflictions] flare up fiercely. As for 'carved image' (qingxiang), it means accumulating earth and wood to make a Buddha image; humans know to fear and revere it, but birds and sparrows do not. As for those who cite the frame (qing) for straightening bows from the Rites of Zhou, that is not the intended meaning here.

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