法界次第初門 3.125

3.125

一、是處非處力。佛知一切諸法因緣、果報定相，從是因緣生如是果報，從是因緣不生如是果報。如惡業得受樂報，無有是處，惡業尚不得世間樂，何況出世間樂？惡行生天，無有是處，惡行尚不能得生天，何況涅槃？五蓋覆心散亂，雖修七覺而得涅槃，無有是處。五蓋覆心，雖修七覺，尚不能得聲聞道。心無覆蓋，佛道可得，況聲聞道。如是等種種是處、不是處，佛悉遍知，無能壞、無能勝，是初力也。

First, the power of [knowing] what is possible and what is impossible. The Buddha knows the fixed characteristics of the causes, conditions, and retributions of all dharmas: that from such causes and conditions such retributions arise, and from such causes and conditions such retributions do not arise. For instance, that an unwholesome karma should result in pleasant retribution—there is no such possibility; unwholesome karma cannot even attain mundane pleasure, how much less supramundane pleasure? That unwholesome conduct should lead to birth in heaven—there is no such possibility; unwholesome conduct cannot even attain birth in heaven, how much less nirvāṇa? That with the mind covered by the five hindrances and scattered, one should attain nirvāṇa although practicing the seven factors of awakening—there is no such possibility. When the mind is covered by the five hindrances, even though one cultivates the seven factors of awakening, one cannot even attain the path of the voice-hearer (śrāvaka). When the mind is uncovered, the Buddha path can be attained, how much more so the path of the voice-hearer! All such various instances of what is possible and what is impossible the Buddha knows completely and ubiquitously, indestructible and unconquerable; this is the first power.