摩訶止觀 4.159

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若三疑在懷，當作是念：我身即是大富盲兒，具足無上法身財寶，煩惱所翳，道眼未開；要當修治，終不放捨。又無量劫來，習因何定？豈可自疑，失時失利？人身難得，怖心難起，莫以疑惑而自毀傷。若疑師者，我今無智，上聖大人皆求其法，不取其人。雪山從鬼請偈，天帝拜畜為師。《大論》云：「不以囊臭而棄其金。」「慢如高山，雨水不停；卑如江海，萬川歸集。」我以法故，復度敬彼。《普超經》云：「人人相見，莫相平相；智如如來，乃能平人。」身子云：「我從今去，不敢復言，是人入生死，是人入涅槃。」即此意也。常起恭敬三世如來，師即未來諸佛，云何生疑耶？若疑法者，我法眼未開，未別是非，憑信而已。佛法如海，唯信能入。《法華》云：「諸聲聞等，非己智分，以信故入。」我之盲瞑，復不信受，更何所歸？長淪永溺，不知出要。和伽利（云云）。優波笈多教弟子上樹（云云）。若心信法，法則染心；猶豫狐疑，事同覆器。

If the three doubts are harbored in the breast, one should think thus: 'My body is the blind child of a great wealthy man, possessing the supreme treasures of the dharmakāya, yet shrouded by afflictions, with the eye of the path not yet opened; I must cultivate and remedy it, never abandoning it. Furthermore, from immeasurable kalpas until now, how could habitual causes be fixed? How could I doubt myself, losing the time and losing the benefit? A human body is difficult to obtain, and a fearful mind is difficult to arouse; do not harm oneself through doubt and hesitation. If one doubts the master: I am currently without wisdom; superior sages and great persons all seek the Dharma, not grasping the person. On the Snow Mountains, one asked a rakṣasa for a verse; Indra bowed to an animal as master. The Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa says: 'One does not discard gold because the sack stinks.' 'Arrogance is like a high mountain, on which rainwater does not stay; humility is like the river and sea, where ten thousand streams converge.' For the sake of the Dharma, I must doubly revere him. The Kuśalamūlasaṃparigraha Sūtra says: 'When people see one another, do not appraise each other; only one with wisdom like the Tathāgata can appraise a person.' Śāriputra said: 'From now on, I dare not say again: this person enters birth and death, that person enters nirvāṇa.' This is precisely the meaning. Constantly give rise to respect for the Tathāgatas of the three times; the master is just a future Buddha; how could one give rise to doubt? If one doubts the teaching: my Dharma-eye is not yet opened, and I cannot yet distinguish right from wrong; I rely solely on faith. The Buddha-Dharma is like the ocean: only through faith can one enter it. The Lotus Sūtra says: 'The śrāvakas and others do not enter through their own share of wisdom, but through faith.' Being so blind and dark, if I further do not faithfully accept it, where else could I take refuge? I would sink and drown forever, not knowing the essentials of liberation. [The story of] Vakkali (and so forth); Upagupta instructing his disciple to climb a tree (and so forth). If the mind has faith in the Dharma, the Dharma will dye the mind; if one is hesitant and suspicious, it is like an overturned vessel.'