修習止觀坐禪法要 1.57

1.57

夫行者初學坐禪，欲修十方三世佛法者，應當先發大誓願，度脫一切眾生，願求無上佛道。其心堅固，猶如金剛，精進勇猛，不惜身命。若成就一切佛法，終不退轉。然後坐中正念思惟一切諸法真實之相，所謂善、不善、無記法，內外根塵妄識一切有漏煩惱法，三界有為生死因果法，皆因心有。故《十地經》云：「三界無別有，唯是一心作。若知心無性，則諸法不實。」心無染著，則一切生死業行止息。作是觀已，乃應如次起行修習也。

When practitioners first learn seated meditation, if they wish to cultivate the Buddhadharma of the ten directions and the three periods of time, they should first give rise to the great vow to liberate all sentient beings and resolve to seek the unsurpassed Buddha Path. Their mind must be firm, like a vajra, vigorous and courageous, not sparing physical life. If they are to accomplish all Buddhadharmas, they will never regress. Thereafter, within sitting, they mindfully reflect upon the true mark of all phenomena: namely, that wholesome, unwholesome, and indeterminate phenomena; internal and external sense faculties and objects, delusive consciousness, and all tainted afflictive phenomena; the causes and effects of conditioned birth-and-death across the three realms—all exist because of the mind. Hence the Daśabhūmika-sūtra says: 'The three realms do not exist separately; they are made solely by the one mind. If one knows that the mind lacks inherent nature, then all phenomena are not real.' When the mind is free of defiling attachment, all karmic activities of birth-and-death cease. Having performed this contemplation, one should then initiate cultivation in sequence.