請觀世音菩薩消伏毒害陀羅尼三昧儀 1.43

1.43

Practitioners should first know: what is the meaning of mantra? The Commentary says: "Mantra (zhou) means 'to wish' (zhouyuan), like the method of the digger wasp; it is also called 'mantric art'. These methods fully accord with the poison and harm of the ten classes of practitioners, secretly capable of eliminating and subduing them." (Regarding the ten classes of practitioners, in the mortal realm of fragmented [births and deaths] there are eight: first, those experiencing suffering; second, those practicing worldly goodness; third, those practicing the śrāvaka [path]; fourth, those practicing the pratyekabuddha [path]; fifth, those practicing the six perfections; [sixth,] those practicing the [bodhisattva] path; seventh, those practicing the separate [teaching]; eighth, those practicing the complete [teaching]. In the [realm of] inconceivable transformation [birth and death] there are two: people of the thirty mental states of the separate [teaching]; and those from the first abode of the complete [teaching] on up. Each has suffering, karma, love and views, and poison and harm, fully as explained in the Commentary.)