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楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.28

楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 4.28

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4.28

我於娑呵世界等,凡例三十三種異名,始言愚者悉聞,各說我名,謂名各有義也。而不解我如來異名,則不知其體一,本於不生不滅也。乃至云如是等三阿僧祇百千名號。阿僧祇,此云無數時,此乃如來果後施化之迹。言百千名號不增不減者,蓋隨舉一名則攝諸法名,在多不增、在一不減,此方他界皆知佛名。言如水月不出不入者,月喻應身,水喻眾生之心,眾生心淨,如來即應,如月在水。然月在空,影現於水,月不下降,故云不入,亦不離水,故云不出也。

'In this Sahā world' and so forth exemplifies thirty-three alternative names. First it states that fools all hear them and each speak my names, meaning that each name has its own significance; but they do not understand my alternative names as Tathāgata, which means they do not know that their substance is one, rooted in neither arising nor cessation. Up to saying, 'such three asaṃkhyeyas of hundreds of thousands of names and titles.' 'Asaṃkhyeya' is translated here as 'countless ages'; these are the traces of the Tathāgata's teaching and transforming after attaining the fruit. Saying 'hundreds of thousands of names and titles neither increase nor decrease' means that whichever single name is brought forth, it embraces all names of dharmas; in multiplicity it does not increase, and in oneness it does not decrease; this realm and other realms all know the Buddha's names. Saying 'like the moon in the water, neither emerging nor entering': the moon is a metaphor for the response body, and the water is a metaphor for the minds of sentient beings. When the minds of sentient beings are pure, the Tathāgata responds, like the moon in the water. Yet the moon remains in space while its reflection appears in water; the moon does not descend, hence it is said 'not entering,' nor does it depart from the water, hence it is said 'not emerging.'

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