四分比丘戒本疏 1.2

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觀夫內契玄宗絕眾相而凝寂、外流妙體應群機而演教，故能橫寶舟於欲浪、照玉鏡於心源，灑定水於三千、薰戒香於百億，有空遐唱捐滯情於兩邊、理事宏敷悟真詮於一實，五乘聯駕、二藏同開，談其萬善戒門為首，暨乎歸依創啟、妙覺終臨，則何位而不修，亦何聖而不學。大矣哉！無得而稱者也。題云「四分比丘戒本」者，四分是本藏教名，以有財而為義；比丘是所防行者，由受學而成名；戒則護六根以明持、遣七非以彰體；本則德含眾善義蘊多端，五篇七聚之要門、十利百行之幽鍵，流雪山之藥味、飲寶岳之甘泉，總收其義謂之為本。是故題言四分比丘戒本矣（二萬一十九言）。

Looking at this: internally, it accords with the profound principle, transcending all marks to rest in still serenity; externally, its wondrous essence flows forth, responding to the capacities of beings to expound the teaching. Thus it can stretch a precious raft across the waves of desire, shine a jade mirror upon the source of the mind, sprinkle the water of samādhi over the trichiliocosm, and diffuse the fragrance of moral discipline through hundreds of millions of worlds. Proclaiming far and wide the teachings of existence and emptiness, it casts away clingings to the two extremes; broadly laying out the noumenon and phenomena, it brings awakening to the true exposition of the Single Reality. The five vehicles harness together, and the two treasuries open alike. In discussing the ten thousand good deeds, the gate of moral discipline is the foremost; from the initial opening of taking refuge down to the ultimate attainment of wondrous awakening, what level is not cultivated, and what noble one does not train in it? How great it is! Nothing can adequately praise it! As for the title, 'Bhikṣu-prātimokṣa of the Dharmaguptaka': 'Dharmaguptaka' is the name of the root piṭaka and teaching, taking having wealth as its meaning; 'bhikṣu' is the practitioner who is protected, taking his name from receiving the training; 'moral discipline' (śīla) protects the six faculties to illuminate adherence and banishes the seven wrongs to manifest the essence; 'root' (mūla) possesses virtues containing manifold goods and embodies meanings in manifold ways—it is the essential gateway to the five categories of offences and seven classes of offences, the subtle key to the ten benefits and hundreds of practices; it flows with the medicinal flavours of the Snowy Mountains, and imbibes the sweet springs of the jeweled peaks. Because it comprehensively gathers all these meanings, it is called the 'root'. Therefore, the title says 'Bhikṣu-prātimokṣa of the Dharmaguptaka' (containing twenty thousand and nineteen characters).