少室六門 1.85

1.85

問。菩薩摩訶薩。由持三聚淨戒。行六波羅蜜。方成佛道。今令學者唯只觀心。不修戒行。云何成佛。答。三聚淨戒者。即制三毒心也。制三毒心成無量善聚。聚者會也。無量善法普會於心。故名三聚淨戒。六波羅蜜者。即淨六根也。胡名波羅蜜。漢名達彼岸。以六根清淨不染六塵。即是度煩惱河。至菩提岸。故云六波羅蜜。

Question: Bodhisattva mahāsattvas accomplish the Buddha path only by holding the three pure precepts and practicing the six pāramitās. Now you make students only contemplate the mind and not cultivate the practice of precepts; how can they accomplish buddhahood? Answer: The three pure precepts are restraining the mind of the three poisons. Restraining the mind of the three poisons accomplishes the collection of immeasurable goods. 'Collection' (ju) means gathering together. The immeasurable good dharmas are universally gathered in the mind; therefore they are called the three pure precepts. The six pāramitās are purifying the ṣaḍ-indriya. 'Pāramitā' is the foreign word; in Chinese it means 'reaching the other shore'. When the ṣaḍ-indriya are pure and not defiled by the six sense objects, that is crossing the river of afflictions and reaching the shore of bodhi; therefore they are called the six pāramitās.