佛祖歷代通載 14.43

14.43

（二十八　己卯）　十五年。清涼受鎮國大師號。進加天下大僧錄。四月帝誕節。勅有司備儀贊迎教授和上澄觀。入內殿闡揚華嚴宗旨。觀陞高座曰。大哉真界萬法資始。包空有而絕相。入言象而無迹。妙有得之而不有。真空得之而不空。生滅得之而真常。緣起得之而交映。我佛得之妙踐真覺廓淨塵習。寂寥於萬化之域。動用於一虛之中。融身剎以相含。流聲光而遐燭。我皇得之靈鑒虛極保合大和。聖文掩於百王。淳風扇於萬國。敷玄化以覺夢。垂天真以性情。是知不有太虛。曷展無涯之照。不有真界。豈淨等空之心。華嚴教者。即窮斯旨趣盡其源流。故恢廓宏遠包納冲邃。不可得而思議矣。指其源也。情塵有經智海無外。妄惑非取重玄不空。四句之火莫焚。萬法之門皆入。冥二際於不一。動千變而非多。事理交涉而兩忘。性相融通而無盡。若秦鏡之互照。猶帝珠之相含。重重交光歷歷齊現。故得圓至功於頃刻。見佛境於塵毛。諸佛心內眾生新新作佛。眾生心中諸佛念念證真。一字法門。海墨書而不盡。一毫之善。空界盡而無窮。語其定也。冥一心於無心。即萬動而常寂。海湛真智光含性空。星羅法身影落心水。圓音非叩而長演。果海離念而心傳。萬行忘照而齊修。漸頓無得而雙入。雖四心廣被八難頓超。而一極唱高二乘絕聽。當其器也。百城詢友一道棲神。明正為南方盡南矣。益我為友人皆友焉遇三毒而三德圓。入一塵而一心淨。千化不變其慮。萬境順通于道。契文殊之妙智。宛是初心入普賢之玄門曾無別體。失其旨也。徒修因於曠劫。得其門也。等諸佛於一朝。諦觀一塵法界在掌。理深智遠識昧辭單。塵黷聖聰退座而已。帝時默湛海印朗然大覺。顧謂群臣曰。朕之師言雅而簡。辭典而富。扇真風於第一義天。能以聖法清涼朕心。仍以清涼賜為國師之號。朕思從來。執身心我人及諸法定相斯為甚倒。群臣再拜稽首頂奉明命。由是中外台輔重臣。咸以八戒禮而師之。

(Twenty-eight; yimao) In the fifteenth year, Qingliang received the title of Great Master Protector of the State, and was further appointed as Grand Monastic Registrar of the Realm. In the fourth month, on the Emperor's birthday, imperial officials were ordered to prepare ceremonial protocols to welcome the Teaching Preceptor Chengguan into the inner palace to expound the essential tenets of the Avataṃsaka. Chengguan ascended the high seat and said: 'Great is the True Realm, from which the myriad phenomena take their beginning! It embraces emptiness and existence, transcending all marks; it enters into words and forms, leaving no trace. Subtle existence attains it and is not existent; true emptiness attains it and is not empty. Arising and ceasing attain it and are truly eternal; dependent origination attains it and they mutually interreflect. Our Buddha attained it, wondrously treading upon true awakening and thoroughly cleansing defiled habits, remaining silent in the realm of myriad transformations, yet active within the single void, fusing body and lands so they contain one another, streaming forth sound and light that shine afar. Our August Sovereign attained it, his numinous mirror reaching the ultimate void, preserving and uniting Great Harmony; his sage civil governance eclipses a hundred kings, his pure customs fan out across the myriad states, spreading mysterious transformation to awaken from dreams, handing down heavenly truth through human nature and feelings. Thus we know: without the great void, how could boundless illumination unfold? Without the True Realm, how could the mind equal to space be purified? The Avataṃsaka teaching exhausts these essential principles and traces its sources and streams to the end. Therefore, expansive and far-reaching, it embraces and admits the deep and subtle, beyond conception or deliberation. As to pointing out its source: the dust of sentiment has its warp; the ocean of wisdom has nothing outside it. Deluded confusion is not grasped; the double mystery is not empty. The fire of the four propositions cannot burn it; the gates of the myriad dharmas can all enter it. Uniting the two extremities into non-duality, it stirs the thousand changes yet is not multiple. Principle and phenomena interact, and both are forgotten; nature and marks harmonize, being inexhaustible. Like the Qin mirrors reflecting one another, or Indra's net of pearls mutually containing each other, layer upon layer of interwoven light appears distinctly all at once. Thus the perfect, ultimate merit is achieved in an instant, and the buddha-realm is seen in a particle of dust or a pore. Within the minds of all buddhas, sentient beings newly become buddhas; within the minds of sentient beings, all buddhas from thought to thought verify reality. A one-character Dharma-gate could not be fully written using the ocean as ink; a single fine hair of goodness could not be exhausted even if the space-realm were to end. Speaking of its samādhi: one mind is merged into no-mind; identical with the myriad motions, it is ever tranquil. The ocean is clear, and true wisdom's light contains the nature of emptiness; the stars spread out, and the Dharma-body's reflection falls into the mind-water. The perfect voice is continually expounded without being struck; the ocean of fruition is transmitted mind to mind, free from thought. The myriad practices forget illumination and are cultivated together; the gradual and sudden are free from attainment and entered simultaneously. Though the four minds broadly shelter and the eight difficulties are immediately transcended, the supreme principle is sung so high that the two vehicles are cut off from hearing it. When it matches the proper vessel: inquiring of friends in a hundred cities, one rests one's spirit on a single path; understanding correctness makes the South completely southern; benefiting oneself makes all people friends. Encountering the three poisons, the three virtues are perfected; entering a single speck of dust, the single mind is purified. A thousand transformations do not alter one's thought; the myriad conditions smoothly lead to the Way. Concurring with Mañjuśrī's wondrous wisdom, it is precisely the initial aspiration; entering Samantabhadra's profound gate, there was never a separate substance. Missing its import, one merely cultivates causes over vast eons; gaining its gate, one equals all buddhas in a single morning. If one clearly observes a single dust-mote, the Dharmadhātu is in one's palm. The principle is deep and the wisdom is distant; my knowledge is dim and my words are simple, merely defiling the Sage's hearing; I shall simply descend from the seat.' At that time, the Emperor's mind was silently immersed in the ocean-seal samādhi, brightly achieving great awakening. Looking around at the assembled ministers, he said: 'My Master's words are elegant and concise, his expressions classical and rich. Fanning the true breeze in the heaven of supreme meaning, he is able to refresh (qingliang) our mind with the holy Dharma.' Thereupon he bestowed 'Qingliang' as the title of National Preceptor. The Emperor continued: 'We reflect that clinging since the past to body and mind, self and other, and fixed marks of dharmas—this has truly been inverted.' The ministers bowed twice, prostrated, and received the luminous decree upon their heads. From then on, both central and regional grand councilors and prime ministers all honored him as teacher with the ceremony of the eight precepts.