[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [觀心論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920) › 1.8 # 觀心論 1.8 觀心論 1.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920.1.8) 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? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920.1.7) - [Next: 1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920.1.9) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920~en-mt.1.8) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [宗鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.30.3.2) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1920.1.8) · Pramāṇa