西方合論 8.19

8.19

八唯心墮者，謂自性淨土，即俗恒真，七寶瓦礫，一道平等，但淨自心，何須分別？答：「汝言心淨土淨不須分別者，引汝入廁室中，能久住不？入死屍場，穢氣熏灼，不掩鼻不？與疥癩膿血之人，能同應器及床褥不？若不能者，此相即是厭五濁相。若居住尚須淨室，同遊尚宜淨侶者，此相即是忻淨土相。忻厭熾然，何謂平等？縱汝難忍能忍，如上所說種種濁穢，不求遠離，則諸蜣蜋鴉犬，亦能親近，此種種物，豈皆得道？脫汝淨穢俱離，依然取捨，于唯心義，亦不相應。是故當知，諸佛以唯心故，忻厭出生；以唯心故，說名平等；以唯心故，莊嚴佛土。若不唯心，豈能隨念？若非平等，凡夫無分。穢尚不捨，何獨捨淨？捨既是心，取亦何乖？皆由不了佛旨，致斯妄執，但識惟心，疑義斯遣。」

Eighth are those who fall into mind-only. They say that the Pure Land of self-nature is such that the conventional is ever the true; seven jewels and broken tiles are equal in the one Way; if one merely purifies one's own mind, what need is there for discrimination? In reply: You say that when the mind is pure, the land is pure and there is no need for discrimination. Were you led into a privy, could you stay there long? Entering a field of corpses where foul odors smoke and burn, would you not cover your nose? With people afflicted by scabies, leprosy, pus, and blood, could you share an almsbowl and bedding? If you cannot, these marks are precisely the marks of loathing the five defilements. If dwelling still requires a clean room, and companions still require pure associates, these marks are precisely the marks of rejoicing in the Pure Land. When rejoicing and loathing are blazing, how can you speak of equality? Even if you can endure what is difficult to endure and do not seek to distance yourself from the various foul defilements mentioned above, dung beetles, crows, and dogs can also draw near to them; have these various creatures all attained the Way? If you discard both purity and defilement, you are still accepting and rejecting, and you still do not accord with the meaning of mind-only. Therefore, you should know that precisely because it is mind-only, the Buddhas produce rejoicing and loathing; precisely because it is mind-only, they speak of equality; and precisely because it is mind-only, they adorn the Buddha lands. If it were not mind-only, how could it follow thought? If it were not equal, ordinary persons would have no share in it. When defilement is not even abandoned, why abandon only purity? Since abandonment is mind, how does acceptance contradict it? It is all due to not understanding the Buddha's intent that this false attachment arises; if one merely recognizes mind-only, doubts and objections will be resolved.