釋禪波羅蜜次第法門 1.37

1.37

復次，菩薩入無量義處三昧，一心具足萬行，能知一切無量法門。若欲具足無上佛道，不修禪定，尚不能得色、無色界及三乘道，何況能得無上菩提？當知欲證無上妙覺，必須先入金剛三昧，而諸佛法乃現在前。菩薩如是深心思惟，審知禪定能滿四願，如《摩訶衍》偈說：

Furthermore, when a bodhisattva enters the samādhi of the station of immeasurable meanings, single-mindedly endowing the myriad practices, they can comprehend all immeasurable Dharma gates. If one wishes to be fully endowed with the unsurpassed Buddha-way, without cultivating dhyāna-concentration, one cannot even attain the form and formless realms or the paths of the three vehicles, how much less could one attain unsurpassed bodhi? One must know that if one wishes to realize unsurpassed, wondrous awakening, one must first enter the vajra-samādhi, and only then do all Buddha-dharmas become manifest before one. As the bodhisattva reflects deeply in mind in this way, they ascertain that dhyāna-concentration can fulfill the four vows, as stated in a verse of the Mahāyāna [Treatise]: