觀心論 1.8

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問觀自生心，云何四不說？
離戲論執諍，心淨如虛空。
問觀自生心，云何是魔行？
業煩惱所繫，三界火宅燒。
問觀自生心，云何是外道？
諸見煩惱業，流轉於六道。
問觀自生心，云何是三乘？
拙度斷見思，出三界火宅。
問觀自生心，云何是巧度？
三乘不斷結，得入二涅槃。
問觀自生心，云何是別教？
求大乘常果，菩薩斷別惑。
問觀自生心，云何圓教乘？
不破壞法界，住三德涅槃。
問觀自生心，云何為涅槃？
修四種三昧，得真無生忍。
問觀自生心，云何巧成就？
二十五方便，調心入正道。
問觀自生心，云何知因緣？
起十種境界，成一心三智。
問觀自生心，云何知十境？
各成十法乘，遊四方快樂。
問觀自生心，云何不住法？
入初發心住，及四十二位。
問觀自生心，云何成六度？
能得諸三昧，及諸陀羅尼。
問觀自生心，云何得六通？
用四攝行化，四辯無罣礙。
問觀自生心，云何得相好？
成真應二佛，對緣如鏡像。
問觀自生心，云何具十力，
及四無所畏？內外照團圓。
問觀自生心，云何觀於心？
能得十八種，不共世間法。
問觀自生心，云何得大慈？
大悲三念處，愍眾無異相。
問觀自生心，云何巧方便？
成就諸眾生，嚴淨一切剎。
問觀自生心，云何於一心？
莊嚴菩提樹，建清淨道場。
問觀自生心，云何坐道場？
現四種成佛，赴機無差降。
問觀自生心，云何轉四教？
清淨妙法輪，一切得甘露。
問觀自生心，云何現四佛？
四種涅槃相，究竟知無餘。
問觀自生心，云何知依正？
四土天器同，而飯色有異。
問觀自生心，云何於此心？
見一切根緣，通達無罣礙。
問觀自生心，云何知悉檀？
無形無所緣，現形廣說法。
問觀自生心，云何知漸、頓、
祕密、不定教？一音說此四。
問觀自生心，云何知四教？
各開出四門，及一切法門。
問觀自生心，云何於四教？
四門十六門，作論通眾經。
問觀自生心，云何住智定？
普入十法界，廣利諸眾生。
問觀自生心，云何知四土？
用教有增減，普利一切眾。
問觀自生心，云何知此心？
具一切佛法，無一法出心。
問觀自生心，云何知此心？
即平等法界，佛不度眾生。
問觀自生心，云何知此心？
法界如虛空，畢竟無所念。
問觀自生心，云何無文字？
一切言語斷，寂然無言說。

Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is the "fourfold unspoken"?
Free from conceptual elaboration, clinging, and dispute, the mind is pure as empty space.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what are the deeds of Māra?
Bound by karma and afflictions, burned in the burning house of the three realms.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what are non-Buddhists?
Afflictions and karma of various views, transmigrating in the six paths.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is the Three Vehicles?
Clumsily crossing over by severing views and thoughts, escaping the burning house of the three realms.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is skillful crossing over?
The Three Vehicles without severing fetters, attaining entrance into the two nirvāṇas.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is the Separate Teaching?
Seeking the eternal fruit of the Great Vehicle, the bodhisattva severs distinct delusions.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is the vehicle of the Perfect Teaching?
Without destroying the dharma realm, abiding in the nirvāṇa of the three virtues.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is nirvāṇa?
Cultivating the four types of samādhi, attaining the true patience of non-arising.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is skillful accomplishment?
The twenty-five preparatory means, tuning the mind to enter the right path.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how are causes and conditions known?
Arising of the ten kinds of objects, fulfilling the three wisdoms in one mind.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how are the ten objects known?
Each accomplishes the ten dharma vehicles, joyfully roaming in the four quarters.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is not abiding in phenomena?
Entering the stage of the initial arousal of the mind, and the forty-two stages.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how are the six perfections accomplished?
Being able to attain all samādhis, and all dhāraṇīs.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how are the six supernormal knowledges attained?
Using the four means of embrace to transform others, the four unimpeded eloquence.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how are the marks and characteristics attained?
Accomplishing the two buddhas of the true and the responsive, confronting conditions like reflections in a mirror.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how are the ten powers possessed,
And the four fearlessnesses? Inner and outer illuminate in complete harmony.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how is the mind contemplated,
So as to attain the eighteen dharmas unshared with the mundane world?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how is great benevolence attained,
And the great compassion of the three stations of mindfulness, pitying sentient beings without distinctions?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, what is skillful means?
Bringing all sentient beings to accomplishment, purifying all lands.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how is it that in a single mind,
The bodhi tree is adorned, and the pure place of enlightenment established?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one sit at the place of enlightenment,
Manifesting the four ways of becoming a buddha, responding to capacities without hierarchy?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one turn the four teachings
As the pure, wondrous wheel of Dharma, so that all obtain ambrosia?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one manifest the four buddhas
And the marks of the four kinds of nirvāṇa, definitively knowing there is no remainder?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how are the dependent and proper [retributions] known?
In the four lands, the celestial vessels are the same, yet the colors of the rice differ.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one, in this mind,
See the capacities and conditions of all, penetrating them without hindrance?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one know the siddhāntas?
Formless and without conditioning objects, manifesting forms to teach the Dharma widely.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one know the gradual, sudden,
Secret, and indeterminate teachings? A single voice preaches these four.
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one know the four teachings,
Each opening up into four gates, and all dharma-doors?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one, in the four teachings
And their four gates—the sixteen gates—compose treatises to penetrate all sūtras?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one abide in wisdom and concentration,
Pervasively entering the ten dharma realms, widely benefiting all sentient beings?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one know the four lands,
Applying teachings that increase or decrease, pervasively benefiting all beings?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one know that this mind
Is equipped with all buddha-dharmas, not a single phenomenon leaving the mind?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one know that this mind
Is itself the equal dharma realm, where the Buddha does not deliver sentient beings?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how does one know that this mind,
Its dharma realm like empty space, has ultimately nothing to contemplate?
Ask: Contemplating the mind of self-arising, how is it without letters,
With all speech cut off, utterly serene and wordless?