[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) › [大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經略疏](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795) › 1.440 # 大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經略疏 1.440 大方廣圓覺修多羅了義經略疏 1.440 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.440](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795.1.440) 翳眼觀空裏無華，妄見華。捏目望月輪，月邊別見月。空華、幻月皆喻妄見。眾生一念迷心，翳自圓明覺性，而於圓明體上妄見生滅身心，故曰「空實無華，病者妄執。」妄執之言，正對前妄認之語。若悟真如無相，但是一心，如空本無華，天唯一月故。《首楞》云：「見聞如幻翳，三界若空華，聞復翳根除，塵消覺圓淨。」又云：「汝身汝心，外洎山河虛空大地，咸是真精妙心中所現物。」亦可別配二喻，謂華喻認身，月喻認心。身則但因心迷，當體妄認，如空華但因眼翳，外無別依。心則內根、外塵相依而起，如幻月下因捏目，上因本月，相依而生。故配身心，昭然義現。然月喻例華亦應云「月實無二，捏者妄執。」經文影略故不具之。又為一解：翳、捏皆喻見分，空華、二月皆喻相分，眼喻智慧，空及本月喻真理。世親《般若論》以翳喻相分者，據釋處之意，取所見之華也。 > Diseased eyes look at the sky, where there are no flowers within, and falsely see flowers. Pressing one's eye while looking toward the moon's disk, beside the moon one separately sees a \[second\] moon. Sky-flowers and the illusory moon both illustrate deluded perception. Sentient beings, with a single thought of a confused mind, obscure their own completely luminous enlightened nature, and upon the substance of complete luminosity falsely perceive an arising-and-ceasing body and mind. Hence it says: "The sky in reality has no flowers; the diseased person falsely grasps them." The words "falsely grasps" directly parallel the earlier phrase "falsely recognizes." If one awakens to tathatā without marks, it is merely the One Mind, just as the sky originally has no flowers and heaven has only one moon. The \*Śūraṅgama\* says: "Seeing and hearing are like illusory cataracts; the three realms are like sky-flowers. When hearing returns, the root of the cataract is removed; when dusts are extinguished, enlightenment is completely pure." It also says: "Your body and your mind, and outwardly reaching to mountains, rivers, space, and the great earth, are all objects appearing within the wondrous mind of true essence." One may also separately assign the two metaphors: 'flowers' illustrates recognizing the body, and 'moon' illustrates recognizing the mind. The body is falsely recognized solely due to mental confusion directly in its substance, just as sky-flowers exist solely due to the eye cataract, with no other external support. The mind, on the other hand, arises in mutual dependence between internal faculties and external dusts, just as the illusory moon arises through mutual dependence on the pressing of the eye below and the original moon above. Thus, when matched with body and mind, the meaning appears clearly. However, by analogy with the flowers, the moon metaphor should also say: 'The moon in reality is not two; the one pressing \[the eye\] falsely grasps it.' The sūtra text condenses the phrasing, hence it does not state it fully. Yet another explanation: cataract and pressing both illustrate the seeing-part (darśanabhāga); sky-flowers and the second moon both illustrate the object-part (nimittabhāga); the eye illustrates wisdom; space and the original moon illustrate true principle. As for Vasubandhu's \*Prajñā-śāstra\* using the cataract to illustrate the object-part, this is based on the meaning of the location being explained, taking it as the flowers that are seen. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.439](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795.1.439) - [Next: 1.441](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795.1.441) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795~en-mt.1.440) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795.1.440](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1795.1.440) · Pramāṇa