樂邦文類 1.210

1.210

The Buddha told Bhadrapāla: "If one wishes to accomplish the samādhi of the present Buddhas appearing before one, wherever one directs one's thoughts one immediately sees the Tathāgata. Just as taking clear oil, clean water, crystal, or a bright mirror, and using these four things to view one's own form, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, the reflected image appears distinctly. Yet that reflected image does not come out of the four things, nor does it come from elsewhere; it does not exist of its own nature, nor is it created by human effort. You should know that the image comes from nowhere and goes nowhere, neither arising nor ceasing, having no place where it abides; so it is with the bodhisattva. One then further reflects: 'Now from where did this Buddha come? And from where did this body of mine emerge?' One contemplates that that Tathāgata ultimately has no place of coming or going. My body is also like this: fundamentally it has no place of arising, so how could there be returning? Furthermore, one should reflect thus: 'Now these three realms exist only as mind. Why? Following that mind's thoughts, one returns to see one's own mind. Now I see the Buddha from the mind; my mind makes the Buddha; my mind is the Buddha; my mind is the Tathāgata. My mind is my body; my mind sees the Buddha. Mind does not know mind; mind does not see mind. When the mind has thoughts and conceptions, it constitutes saṃsāra; when the mind is without thoughts and conceptions, it is nirvāṇa.' When what is thought of has ceased, that which thinks is also empty. You should know that it is due to this samādhi that bodhisattvas realize great bodhi."