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# 宗鏡錄 64.8

宗鏡錄 64.8

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [64.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.64.8)

問。維摩詰即入三昧。令此比丘自識宿命。曾於五百佛所殖眾德本。迴向阿耨多羅三藐三菩提。即時豁然。還得本心者。且如過去心已過去。未來心未至。現在心不住。云何觀他過去善根心。

> Question: Vimalakīrti then entered samādhi and caused this monk to recognize his own past lives—that he had once planted numerous roots of virtue before five hundred Buddhas and dedicated them to anuttarasamyaksaṃbodhi—whereupon he was immediately enlightened and recovered his fundamental mind. Now, as the past mind has already passed away, the future mind has not yet arrived, and the present mind does not abide, how can one contemplate another's past mind of roots of virtue?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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