法華三昧懺儀 1.12

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行者初欲入道場之時，應自安心，我於今時乃至滿三七日，於其中間，當如佛教一心精進。所以者何？若心異念，即雜諸煩惱，名不清淨。心不淨故，豈得與三昧正道相應？是故自要其心，不惜身命，一心精進，滿三七日。問曰：眾生心相，隨事異緣，云何能得一心精進？答曰：有二種修一心：一者事中修一心，二者理中修一心。事中修一心者，如行者初入道場時即作是念：「我於三七日中，若禮佛時當一心禮佛，心不異緣，乃至懺悔行道，誦經坐禪，悉皆一心，在行法中無分散意。」如是經三七日，是名事中修一心精進。二者理中修一心精進，行者，初入道場時應作是念：「我從今時乃至三七日滿，於其中間諸有所作，常自照了所作之心心性不二。所以者何？如禮佛時心性不生不滅，當知一切所作種種之事，心性悉不生不滅，如是觀時見一切心悉是一心，以心性從本已來常一相故。」行者能如是反觀心源心心相續，滿三七日不得心相，是名理中修一心精進法。

When a practitioner is first about to enter the bodhimaṇḍa, they should settle their own mind: "From this present moment until the completion of the three periods of seven days, during this interval, I shall be single-mindedly energetically applied in accordance with the Buddha's teaching." Why is this? If the mind has divergent thoughts, it will become mixed with various afflictions and is called impure. Because the mind is not pure, how could it accord with the correct path of samādhi? Therefore, one should make a pact with one's mind, not sparing life or limb, to be single-mindedly energetically applied until the three periods of seven days are complete. Question: The characteristics of the minds of sentient beings change in accordance with different conditions; how can one attain single-minded energetic application? Answer: There are two kinds of cultivating a single mind: first, cultivating a single mind in phenomena; second, cultivating a single mind in principle. Cultivating a single mind in phenomena means that when the practitioner first enters the bodhimaṇḍa, they form this thought: "During the three periods of seven days, when bowing to the Buddhas I will bow to the Buddhas with a single mind, the mind not straying to other conditions; and so on up to repenting, circumambulating, chanting sūtras, and sitting in meditation, all with a single mind, within the ritual practice without a scattered mind." Continuing like this through the three periods of seven days is called cultivating single-minded energetic application in phenomena. Second, cultivating single-minded energetic application in principle means that when the practitioner first enters the bodhimaṇḍa, they should form this thought: "From this present moment until the completion of the three periods of seven days, in all that I do during this interval, I will constantly illuminate that the mind that acts and the mind-nature are non-dual. Why is this? Just as when bowing to the Buddhas the mind-nature is neither produced nor destroyed, one should know that in all the various things that are done, the mind-nature is entirely neither produced nor destroyed. When contemplating like this, one sees that all minds are just one mind, because the mind-nature from the origin has always had a single mark." When the practitioner can thus reflectively contemplate the source of the mind, with mind following mind in succession, and throughout the three periods of seven days does not apprehend any characteristic of mind, this is called the method of cultivating single-minded energetic application in principle.