宗鏡錄 94.29

94.29

像法決疑經云。今日坐中無央數眾。各見不同。或見如來入涅槃。或見如來住世一劫。若減一劫。若無量劫。或見如來丈六之身。或見小身。或見大身。或見報身。蓮華藏世界海。為千百億釋迦牟尼佛。說心地法門。或見法身。同於虛空。無有分別。無相無礙。遍同法界。或見此處。山林地土沙礫。或見七寶。或見此處。乃是三世諸佛所行之處。或見此處。即是不思議諸佛境界真實之法。釋曰。故知佛無定形。隨識而自分麁妙。境無異相。因心而空見短長。可謂現證法門。理歸宗鏡。

The Sūtra on Resolving Doubts Concerning the Semblance Dharma says: “Today within the assembly, countless multitudes each see differently: some see the Tathāgata enter nirvāṇa; some see the Tathāgata abide in the world for one kalpa, or less than one kalpa, or immeasurable kalpas; some see the Tathāgata’s sixteen-foot body, or see a small body, or see a large body; some see the saṃbhogakāya in the ocean of the Lotus Treasury World expounding the Dharma gate of the mind ground for hundreds of thousands of millions of Śākyamuni Buddhas; some see the dharmakāya identical with empty space, free of discrimination, signless and unobstructed, universally identical with the dharmadhātu; some see this place as mountains, forests, dirt, sand, and gravel; some see the seven treasures; some see this place as the field of practice of the Buddhas of the three times; some see this place as the true Dharma of the inconceivable realm of the Buddhas.” Explanation: Thus we know that the Buddha has no fixed form, but according to consciousness naturally divides into coarse and fine; the sphere has no divergent characteristics, but due to citta falsely perceives short and long. This may be called directly witnessing the Dharma gate, whose principle returns to the mirror of the source.