大毘盧遮那成佛經疏 11.23

11.23

經云「祕密主！若具方便善男子善女人，隨所樂求而有所作，彼唯心自在而得成就」者，世人所不能信，彼人得之，謂作成就人也。不能可信希奇之事皆能得之也，是故云善男女方便具欲求之物，但自心自在，唯如是得成就也。言彼自心自在，唯如是成就者，謂隨意所欲，唯心所轉即成就也。唯謂唯用自心，不藉餘緣。唯亦是暫義，纔心作念即成就也。「祕密主！諸樂欲因果者，祕密之法非彼愚夫之所能知真言諸真言相」者，若人於此真言行中作如是念：「我今行如是因，當得如是果。」當知如此非正說也，唯是愚夫虛妄計也。何以故？有諸外道說一切法從我而生，若如是自在喜故即與，不喜故不與。如是等人不能解此道也。應則是萬物皆得從因生，若從因生，此因則有性，若有自性則墮常見。常法云何能生？若因滅果生，即斷滅法，云何能生耶？

The sūtra says: 'Lord of Secrets! If a good man or good woman endowed with upāya performs rites according to what they desire and seek, they attain accomplishment solely through mastery of the mind.' What worldly people cannot believe, that person attains—meaning the person who achieves accomplishment. They can attain all incredible and wondrous things; therefore it is said that when a good man or woman is endowed with upāya for the things they wish to seek, merely through their own mind's mastery, solely in this way do they attain accomplishment. Saying that 'solely through their own mind's mastery do they attain accomplishment' means that in accordance with whatever they desire, solely as directed by the mind, it is accomplished. 'Solely' means using solely one's own mind without relying on other conditions. 'Solely' also has the sense of 'instantaneous': the moment the mind forms the thought, it is accomplished. [The sūtra says:] 'Lord of Secrets! Those who desire causes and effects, those fools cannot know the secret Dharma or the marks of the mantras.' If someone within this mantra practice forms the thought: 'I now cultivate such a cause and will obtain such an effect,' one should know that this is not the correct teaching, but merely the false conceptualization of fools. Why? There are non-Buddhists who say that all phenomena arise from a self: if an Ishvara is pleased he gives, and if he is not pleased he does not give. Such people cannot understand this path. Rather, it must be that myriad things arise from causes; if they arise from causes, then these causes have intrinsic nature; if they have intrinsic nature, they fall into the view of permanence. How can a permanent phenomenon produce anything? If the cause perishes and the effect arises, that is an annihilated phenomenon; how could it produce anything?