摩訶止觀 10.74

10.74

空見生六度菩薩法者：既識空見諦、緣，即是知病、識藥。識藥故自欣，知病故愍彼，欲共眾生離苦求樂。空見陰界是苦，十使等是集，念處等是道，四倒破是滅；約此起誓。如一空見，一日一夜凡生幾許百千億陰，一一五陰即是眾生。日夜既爾，何況一世？何況無量世？空見既爾，餘見亦然。能生之見既多，所生之陰則不可數。一人尚爾，何況多人？是為「眾生無邊誓願度」。如一空見念念八十八使；餘三見、六十二等，亦八十八使。一人尚爾，何況多人？是名「煩惱無量誓願斷」。如一空見修念處道品，餘一切見正助之道無量無邊。一人尚爾，多人亦然。是為「法門無盡誓願知」。如一空見煩惱滅；無量見，無量煩惱亦滅。一人既爾，諸人亦然。是名「無上佛道誓願成」。若眾生苦集是性實者，則不可度；以苦集從因緣生，無有自性故，苦海可乾，集源易竭，故言「度」耳。觀空起願如上說。

The view of emptiness generating the dharma of the six-pāramitā bodhisattva: once one recognizes the truths and conditions of the view of emptiness, this is knowing the illness and recognizing the medicine. Because one recognizes the medicine, one rejoices oneself; because one knows the illness, one pities others, wishing together with sentient beings to leave suffering and seek joy. The aggregates and realms of the view of emptiness are suffering, the ten proclivities and so forth are arising, the applications of mindfulness and so forth are the path, and the breaking of the four inversions is cessation; based on this, one gives rise to vows. Taking a single view of emptiness: in one day and one night, how many hundreds of thousands of koṭis of aggregates are born? Each and every five aggregates is itself a sentient being. If it is so in a day and a night, how much more so in a lifetime? How much more so in immeasurable lifetimes? If the view of emptiness is so, the other views are also like this. Since the views capable of generating them are many, the aggregates generated are innumerable. If this is so for one person, how much more so for many people? This is 'Sentient beings are boundless: I vow to deliver them.' Just as in a single view of emptiness there are, thought-moment by thought-moment, eighty-eight proclivities; the other three views, the sixty-two, and so forth also have eighty-eight proclivities. If this is so for one person, how much more so for many people? This is called 'Afflictions are immeasurable: I vow to sever them.' Just as in a single view of emptiness one cultivates the path factors of the applications of mindfulness, the direct and auxiliary paths for all other views are immeasurable and boundless. If this is so for one person, it is also so for many people. This is 'Dharma gates are inexhaustible: I vow to know them.' Just as in a single view of emptiness afflictions are ceased, so in immeasurable views immeasurable afflictions are also ceased. If this is so for one person, it is also so for all persons. This is called 'The unsurpassed Buddha path: I vow to achieve it.' If the suffering and arising of sentient beings were real by nature, they could not be delivered; because suffering and arising are born from causal conditions and have no svabhāva, the sea of suffering can run dry and the source of arising is easily exhausted, hence we speak of 'delivering.' Contemplating emptiness and giving rise to vows is as explained above.