六妙法門 1.57

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次釋「第八、觀心六妙門」。觀心六妙門者，此為大根行人，善識法要，不由次第，懸照諸法之源。何等為諸法之源？所謂眾生心也。一切萬法由心而起，若能反觀心性，不可得心源，即知萬法皆無根本。約此觀心說六妙門，非如前也。所以者何？如行者初學觀心時，知一切世間、出世間諸數量法，皆悉從心出，離心之外更無一法，是則數一切法，皆悉約心故數。當知心者，即是數門。

Next is the explanation of the "Eighth: The Six Wondrous Gates of Contemplating the Mind." As for the six wondrous gates of contemplating the mind: this is for practitioners of great faculties who skillfully recognize the essential points of the Dharma; not relying on stages, they directly illuminate the source of all dharmas from afar. What is the source of all dharmas? It is the mind of sentient beings. All the myriad dharmas arise from the mind; if one can reflectively contemplate the nature of the mind and find the source of the mind to be unapprehendable, one knows that the myriad dharmas are all without root. Explaining the six wondrous gates with reference to this contemplation of the mind is not like what came before. Why is this? When the practitioner first learns to contemplate the mind, they know that all the quantitative dharmas, both mundane and supramundane, all issue from the mind, and apart from the mind there is not a single dharma; thus, counting all dharmas is done entirely with reference to the mind. Know that the mind is itself the gate of counting.