四分律行事鈔資持記 1.1015

1.1015

大僧籌中，初科有三，初具儀，二說偈，三示敬。偈中，上半歎其難得，下半喜其已得。初句即三德，金剛喻法身，無礙目般若，亦即託事表法希有。次句兩難，得親遇疎，遇者不必皆得，得者必因於遇，故兩言之。如今果者，剋己為喻；《淨心觀》云：萬類之中人身難得，如《提謂經》說，今得人身難於龜木。次半偈中，上句頂戴是身，歡喜是意，口陳偈句，三業備足，即自利也。下句攝生同己。

Under "Tallies for the Fully Ordained Monks": the first subsection has three parts: first, possessing the deportment; second, reciting the verse; third, demonstrating reverence. In the verse, the first half praises its rarity; the second half rejoices in having obtained it. The first line refers to the three virtues: vajra symbolizes the dharmakāya; unimpeded designates prajñā; it also relies on the physical object to express the rarity of the Dharma. The next line has two "difficulties": obtaining it is intimate, encountering it is distant; those who encounter it do not necessarily all obtain it, but those who obtain it must do so through having encountered it, hence both are mentioned. "As in today's fruit" takes oneself as a metaphor. The *Contemplation for Purifying the Mind* states: "Among the myriad species, a human body is difficult to obtain; as the *Tiwei Sūtra* says, now obtaining a human body is more difficult than the turtle finding the floating wood." In the next half of the verse, the upper line of placing it upon the crown of the head is bodily action, rejoicing is mental action, and voicing the lines of the verse with the mouth fulfills the three karmas, which is self-benefit. The lower line embraces living beings to be identical with oneself.