宗鏡錄 94.40

94.40

月燈三昧經頌云。譬如有童女。夜臥夢產子。生欣死憂慼。諸法亦復然。如人飲酒醉。見地悉迴轉。其實未曾動。諸法亦復然。如淨虛空月。影現於清池。非月形入水。諸法亦復然。如人自好喜。執鏡而照面。鏡像不可得。諸法亦復然。如人在山谷。歌哭言笑響。聞聲不可得。諸法亦復然。釋曰。狂醉見聞。事何真實。昏夢境界。憂喜皆虛。鏡裏之形。因誰所起。谷中之響。起自何來。所以入楞伽經云。佛告楞伽王。譬如有人。於水鏡中。自見其像。於燈月中。自見其影。於山谷中。自聞其響。便生分別。而起取著。此亦如是。法與非法。唯是分別。由分別故。不能捨離。但更增長一切虛妄。不得寂滅。寂滅者。所謂一心。一心者。是最勝三昧。從此能生自證聖智。以如來藏而為境界。

A gāthā in the Samādhirājasūtra says: / 'Just as an unmarried girl / Dreams as she sleeps at night of bearing a child, / Feeling joy at its birth and sorrow at its death, / So too are all phenomena. / Just as an intoxicated person / Sees the earth spinning completely around, / When in fact it has never moved, / So too are all phenomena. / Just as the moon in a clear sky / Has its reflection appear in a clear pond, / Without the moon's form having entered the water, / So too are all phenomena. / Just as a vain person / Holds up a mirror to inspect their face, / Yet the reflection in the mirror is ungraspable, / So too are all phenomena. / Just as when someone in a mountain valley / Sings, weeps, speaks, or laughs, an echo is heard, / Yet the sound heard is ungraspable, / So too are all phenomena.' / Exegesis: What truth is there in the sights and sounds perceived in drunken madness? In the sphere of somnolent dreams, sorrow and joy are both empty. On what does the form within the mirror depend to arise? From where does the echo in the valley come? Therefore the Laṅkāvatārasūtra says: 'The Buddha told the King of Laṅkā: "It is like a person who sees his own reflection in water or a mirror, sees his own shadow in a lamp or the moon, or hears his own echo in a mountain valley, and thereupon gives rise to discrimination and conceives clinging. This is just the same. Dharma and non-dharma are solely discrimination; because of discrimination, one cannot abandon them, but merely further increases all falsehood and does not attain quiescence. Quiescence is what is called the one mind. The one mind is the most supreme samādhi; from this, one can generate the noble wisdom of self-realization, taking the tathāgatagarbha as its realm."'"