西方合論 7.2

7.2

夫究竟涅槃，唯除如來。二乘破有執空，假名寂滅；菩薩發真無漏，分破無明。何況劣根淺解，大海一滴，輒逞狂慧，斷無後有，以恣情為遊戲，以修行為纏縛，自殺殺他，何異酖毒。如佛在時有一比丘得四禪，生增上慢，謂得阿羅漢，不復求進。命欲盡時，見有四禪中陰相來，便生邪見謂無涅槃，佛為欺我！惡邪生故失四禪中陰，便見阿鼻泥犁中陰相，命終即生阿鼻地獄。此等猶是坐禪持戒，一念妄證，遂沈黑獄。而今禪人得少為足，蕩心逸軌，其惡報又不知當如何也。古人云：「不生淨土，何土可生？三祇途遠，入餘門者，多有退墮。」是以古今聖流，皆主張此一門。今略示六種，以定指南：

Now, as for ultimate nirvāṇa, it belongs solely to the Tathāgata. The two vehicles destroy existence and cling to emptiness, provisionally naming it quiescence; bodhisattvas give rise to the true uncontaminated [wisdom] and partially destroy ignorance. How much less can those of inferior capacity and shallow understanding, possessing but a single drop of the great ocean, recklessly display wild wisdom, severing future existence, taking unrestrained indulgence as amusement and spiritual practice as entanglement! Murdering oneself and murdering others, how does this differ from hemlock and poison? For example, when the Buddha was in the world, there was a bhikṣu who attained the fourth dhyāna and gave rise to exorbitant pride, claiming he had attained arhatship, and no longer sought progress. When his life was about to end, seeing the intermediate state signs of the fourth dhyāna appear, he gave rise to wrong views, saying: 'There is no nirvāṇa; the Buddha has deceived me!' Because this evil, wrong view arose, he lost the intermediate state of the fourth dhyāna and saw the intermediate state signs of Avīci Hell; when his life ended, he immediately was born in the Avīci Hell. These [practitioners] still sat in meditation and upheld precepts, yet through a single thought of false attainment, they sank into the dark hell. Now, when Chan practitioners are satisfied with a little and let their minds run wild beyond the rails, who knows what their evil retribution will be! An ancient said: 'If not born in the Pure Land, in what land could one be born? The journey through three asaṃkhyeyas is long; among those who enter other gates, many regress and fall.' For this reason, the holy lineage of past and present all advocate this single gate. Now I briefly show six kinds to establish a compass: