念佛三昧寶王論 3.30

3.30

The guest said: "When the physician departs, he leaves medicine; when the merchant travels, he entrusts gold. What former sages stored cannot be given except to the right person. I, your disciple, am benighted in the Way and ignorant in study, yet I have ventured to peer into the gate of samādhi, still hoping for anutpāda and ever aspiring to the proclamation of the One Reality. The profound import above is the treasure seal of the Dharma, shining simultaneously upon motion and stillness, seamlessly merging principle and phenomena. Giving rise to a single thought is wholly true, and following its categories expands it: those who utter 'Namo' all realize the Buddha Way; scattering flowers or snapping fingers, all transcend to bodhi. Wherever the King of Sūtras resides is inherently revered; when the cataract of the eye meets the golden probe, the film is removed. The meanings of these twenty gates are something I had never heard before! How fortunate I am to delight in washing away the transgression of despising sentient beings and to obtain free roaming in the land of jeweled adornment! I vow, without changing this body, to obtain the wondrous prediction of ghee and awaken to the fact that all future buddhas are none other than sentient beings. Thereupon I prostrated before the Prabhūtaratna Stūpa, and facing the lotus monk, together with my companion I universally contemplated the Honored Ones of the ten directions and fully contemplated the buddhas of the three times. Kneeling with palms joined, I spoke in praise: