弘明集 13.20

13.20

維摩詰云。一切諸法定意生形。然則兆動於始事應乎末。念起而有慮息則無。意之所安則觸遇而夷。情之所礙則無往不滯。因此而言。通滯之所由。在我而不在物也。若乃懼生於心則釁乘於外。外釁既乘內懼愈結。苟患失之無所不至矣。是以經稱丈夫畏時非人得其便。誠能住心以理天關內固。則人鬼罔間緣對自息。萬有無以嬰。眾邪不能襲。

Vimalakīrti said: 'All dharmas arise as forms from settled intent.' Thus the omen stirs at the inception and the event responds at the end; when a thought arises there is [existence], and when ideation ceases there is non-existence. Where the intent is at peace, whatever it encounters is smoothed away; where the passions are obstructed, wherever one goes there is stagnation. Speaking from this, the source of flow and stagnation lies in oneself, not in things. If fear is born in the mind, vulnerabilities are seized upon from without. Once external vulnerabilities are seized upon, internal fear knots ever tighter; if one merely dreads losing something, there is nowhere [this dread] will not reach. Hence the scripture states that when a gentleman fears, non-human beings take advantage of him. If one can truly abide the mind in principle and make the heavenly bolt firm within, then neither humans nor ghosts can find an opening, and karmic retributions will naturally cease. The ten thousand existences will have no means to entangle him; the host of evils will be unable to strike him.