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金光明經文句記 3.243

金光明經文句記 3.243

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Classical Chinese

3.243

初、明財供養。經「我今」等者,此乃即法以明財供。何者?以一大千界中自有千百億佛,況無量無邊大千諸佛,財若有限何能遍供?良由了達所奉之供體是法界,出世無盡一一周遍,故一切剎、一切佛前皆有六塵妙供養事,不獨廣遍亦乃常存,盡未來時施作佛事。為彰次段修行法門,故此別名財供養矣。須知二供其體相即,為門不同故分為二。

First, explaining the material offering. The sūtra's 'I now', etc., identifies the Dharma to explain the material offering. How so? Because in one great chiliocosm there are inherently hundreds of billions of Buddhas, not to mention the Buddhas of limitless and boundless great chiliocosms; if material goods were limited, how could one make offerings everywhere? It is truly because of understanding that the substance of the offering presented is the Dharma realm, transcendent, inexhaustible, and everywhere pervasive, that before all lands and all Buddhas there are wondrous offerings of the six dusts; not only are they broad and pervasive, but they also endure eternally, performing Buddha-work to the end of future time. In order to manifest the approach to practice in the next section, this is separately named the material offering. One must know that the substances of the two offerings are mutually identical, yet because their approaches differ, they are divided into two.

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