[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) › [金剛般若論會釋](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816) › 1.58 # 金剛般若論會釋 1.58 金剛般若論會釋 1.58 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.1.58) 此初發心由四種緣，一、見聞佛等有大神通力；二、聽聞宣說菩薩藏教；三、見法將滅，念言法久住，能滅眾苦，我應當發心，當作是利；四、末劫末時見惡眾生十煩惱多愚癡等之所惱亂，念言於此發二乘心，尚難可得，況大菩提？我當發心，令他學我。復即四因，一、具足種性，二、善友攝受，三、悲愍眾生，四、難行無怯。《攝大乘》云，「清淨增上力，堅固心勝進，名菩薩初修，無數三大劫」，大菩提心以善根而為自體，名清淨力；降伏所除障故，以善友為緣，名增上力；以不退屈為策發，名堅固力；雖遇惡友方便阻壞，終不棄捨大菩提心，所修善法運運增長，如此勝進，齊是名為最初發意。從發意後，新熏有漏聞、思種子，辨所資長無漏種子，合二名為習所成種。於生死海作出限量，不久定當速證彼岸，故所修行法名波羅蜜多。所遇善友有四種相應，當了知親近受學，一、聰明黠慧，不墮惡見；二、不教放逸，不授彼具；三、不教惡行，不授彼緣；四、不勸捨先所修勝法令修劣者，乃至終不勸捨大乘令修二乘。與此相違，是惡友相，應當遠離。廣應分別發心住差別因緣、功德多少等，皆廣如《華嚴經》第五十七卷并《善戒經》第一、《菩薩地》第一等釋。 > This initial generating of the mind arises from four kinds of conditions: first, seeing or hearing that Buddhas and others possess great supernatural powers; second, hearing the teaching of the Bodhisattva-piṭaka expounded; third, seeing that the Dharma is about to perish, thinking, ‘If the Dharma abides long, it can extinguish all suffering; I should generate the mind and bring about such benefit’; fourth, in the final era of the degenerate kalpa, seeing evil sentient beings perturbed by the ten afflictions, pervasive ignorance, and the like, thinking, ‘To generate the mind of the two vehicles in such circumstances is already difficult to attain, how much more so for great bodhi? I shall generate the mind to cause others to learn from me.’ It also arises from four causes: first, possessing the complete lineage; second, being embraced by good friends; third, feeling compassion for sentient beings; fourth, being fearless in difficult practices. The Mahāyānasaṃgraha says: ‘With the power of purity and predominance, / and a firm mind progressing excellently, / this is called the bodhisattva’s initial cultivation / through three incalculable great kalpas.’ Taking roots of goodness as its self-nature, the great bodhicitta is called the power of purity. Because it subjugates the hindrances to be eliminated, taking good friends as conditions, it is called the power of predominance. Using non-retrogression as its spur, it is called the power of firmness. Even when encountering bad friends who obstruct and ruin it through various means, one ultimately does not abandon the great bodhicitta, and the wholesome dharmas cultivated constantly increase and grow; with such superior progress, this is entirely called the initial generating of the intention. From the generation of intention onward, the newly perfumed tainted seeds of hearing and contemplating delineate the untainted seeds that are nourished; combining the two, they are called the seeds accomplished through practice. Drawing a limit upon the ocean of birth and death, one will certainly soon realize the other shore; therefore, the dharmas cultivated are called pāramitās. The good friends one encounters have four characteristics; one should know them, draw close to them, and receive instruction: first, they are clever and wise, not falling into evil views; second, they do not teach heedlessness and do not provide its requisites; third, they do not teach evil conduct and do not provide its conditions; fourth, they do not urge one to abandon the superior dharmas previously cultivated to cultivate inferior ones, down to never urging one to abandon the Mahāyāna to cultivate the two vehicles. Those contrary to these are the marks of bad friends and should be avoided. The differentiation of causes and conditions, the quantity of merit, and so on for the stage of generating the mind should be extensively distinguished, all being extensively explained as in the fifty-seventh fascicle of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra, the first fascicle of the Bodhisattva-śīla-sūtra, the first fascicle of the Bodhisattvabhūmi, and so forth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.1.57) - [Next: 1.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.1.59) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816~en-mt.1.58) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [金剛般若經贊述](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1700.1.102) — Classical Chinese - [般若波羅蜜多心經幽贊](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1710.1.33) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.1.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1816.1.58) · Pramāṇa