大毘盧遮那成佛經疏 11.23

11.23

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?