大慧普覺禪師語錄 20.3

20.3

欲學此道，須是具決定信，逢逆順境，心不動搖，方有趣向分。佛言：「信能永滅煩惱本，信能專向佛功德，信於境界無所著，遠離諸難得無難。」又云：「信能超出眾魔路，示現無上解脫道。」如上所說教有明文，佛豈欺人耶？若半明半暗，半信半不信，則觸境遇緣心生疑惑，乃是於境界心有所著，不能於此道決定無疑，滅煩惱本，遠離諸難。諸難者，為無決定信，被自己陰魔所撓。若能一念緣起無生，則不越此念，即時超出魔路。所謂魔路亦非他物，乃是昧却此心，於此心外妄生差別諸見，而此心即隨差別妄念流轉，故成就魔境。若能直下信，此心決定本來成佛，頓亡諸見，即此魔路便是當人出生死菩提路也。

If you wish to study this Way, you must possess decisive faith, so that when encountering adverse and favorable circumstances, your mind does not waver; only then will you have a share in proceeding. The Buddha said: 'Faith can forever extinguish the root of afflictions; / Faith can direct oneself solely toward the Buddha's merits; / Faith is without attachment to realms; / Far removed from all difficulties, one attains freedom from difficulties.' He also said: 'Faith can transcend the paths of the hosts of māras, / and display the unexcelled path of liberation.' As stated above, there is clear textual evidence in the teachings; would the Buddha deceive people? If you are half-bright and half-dark, half-believing and half-doubting, then when contacting objects and meeting conditions, doubts arise in your mind. This is having attachment in the mind toward realms, being unable to have decisive freedom from doubt regarding this Way, to extinguish the root of afflictions, and to leave all difficulties far behind. As for 'all difficulties', because of lacking decisive faith, one is disturbed by one's own skandha-demons. If in a single thought conditioned arising is unborn, then without surpassing this thought, you instantly transcend the path of māras. The so-called 'path of māras' is also nothing else: it is obscuring this mind, falsely generating various differentiated views outside this mind, so that this mind turns around following differentiated false thoughts, thereby accomplishing the realm of māras. If you can directly believe that this mind is decidedly originally a buddha, and suddenly obliterate all views, then this very path of māras is the person's bodhi path of leaving birth and death.