廣弘明集 15.158

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蓋聞嵩高惟嶽作屏皇家。宗子維城克固盤石。所以戚均魯衛任等蕭曹。三台正席坐而論道。九棘勤王恪居連事。宜各運心奉為臨川安城建安鄱陽始興豫章又南康廬陵湘東武陵諸王家國戚屬六司鼎貴歸命敬禮舍利形像菩提妙塔多寶踊現釋迦碎身。奉願鏡凝深情岳峙洪福。克隆帝社永茂皇枝。眾各一心歸命三寶。三界異術五道分逕。天人植業各歸一果。鬼神牽報事炳冥途。十善花果既乖正力。五濁煩心彌多惱累。雖復聰明正直。三牲之祀未虧。陰陽不測。六根之滯猶染。眾等宜各露誠逮為天龍八部護塔善王乃至脩羅八臂摩醯三目。盡為敬禮尊經正典清淨波若究竟涅槃法花會一之文。淨名不二之說。願一切善神。永斷無明長遵正本。臥處寶宮坐甘香積。帝釋淵廣。泛波若之舟。淨居深沈。駕牛車之美。澤及三界明照四天。大悲拔苦事炳前經。弘慈與樂義高名訓。是以靈權降迹。出沒不同。菩薩位懷。顯晦多術。無邊劇惱。扇八苦於修途。有縛纏情。繞六趣於危道。金瑣玉床猶念解脫。彫珠飾綺不及塗中。至如飄颻熱風滄浪氷水。暗室千重黑城百仞。鐵輪碎骨銅柱焦腸。傍出刀峯撗抽劍鍔。如斯眾苦尤為險脆。一息不追則萬劫永別。剎那暫斷則千代長離。相與共託閻浮泡生幻處。危脆之質有險蜉蝣。風電之馳誠難可駐。況復三相併蹙二鼠攢危。毒箭惡蛇尤為可畏。庶憑正法拔茲累染。長享百福永斷六塵。對至無強惟佛可恃。今為六道四生三途八難慈悲懇到。一心遍禮十住菩薩三行聲聞禮救世觀音獻蓋寶積西方大勢東國妙音四辯淨名二土螺髻珠頸善宿彌勒文殊金剛藏解脫月棄蔭蓋常舉手十大弟子五百羅漢。願囹圄空虛疾惱消息。域中百縣方外千城。凡在幽縶一同寬蕩。人協覆蛇俗化匡蟻。類服鴆之不死。同拔劍之無傷。含生不縷轉死自溫。渭橋日飽翳桑無餓。打塞三途填碎地獄。破魔兵眾壞生死軍。閻羅發十善之心。牛傍啟五戒之業。如魚少水若鳥窮林。一聽法音即捨穢質。人運五體歸命三尊。

Now, we have heard that the lofty Songshan alone stands as a mountain to form a screen for the royal house; the scions of the imperial clan serve as a bulwark to firmly establish the rock. Therefore, their affinity is equal to Lu and Wei, and their responsibilities comparable to Xiao and Cao. The Three Terraces occupy the proper seats, sitting to discuss the Dao; the Nine Spines are devoted to the king, reverently occupying collective affairs. You should all direct your minds, on behalf of the Princes of Linchuan, Ancheng, Jian’an, Poyang, Shixing, Yuzhang, as well as Nankang, Luling, Xiangdong, and Wuling, their families, relatives of the state, and the dignitaries of the Six Ministries, to take refuge and pay reverent homage to the relics, bodily forms, the wondrous Bodhi Stūpa, the springing emergence of Prabhūtaratna, and the distributed relics of Śākyamuni. We pray that their profound sentiments may settle like a mirror, and their vast blessings tower like mountains; elevating the imperial altars and causing the royal branches to flourish forever. Let the assembly with single mind take refuge in the triratna. In the three realms paths are diverse, and in the five destinies the trails diverge; devas and humans plant karmas, each returning to a single fruit; ghosts and spirits are drawn by retribution, their affairs manifest along dark pathways. Since the flowers and fruits of the ten wholesome deeds fall short of the true power, the vexations of the five turbidities increasingly bring burdens of distress. Although they may be intelligent, upright, and straight, and the sacrifices of the three beasts have not been diminished; yet yin and yang are unpredictable, and the defilements of the six sense faculties still adhere. All of you should each bare your sincerity, on behalf of the eight classes of devas and nāgas, the good kings protecting the stūpa, down to the asuras with eight arms and Maheśvara with three eyes, all to pay reverent homage to the venerable scriptures and correct canons: the pure prajñā, the ultimate nirvāṇa, the text on uniting the one in the Lotus Flower, and the discourse on non-duality of Vimalakīrti. We pray that all good deities may forever sever nescience and long comply with the true foundation, lying in jewelled palaces and sitting to enjoy the Fragrant Accumulation. Śakra, vast and deep, sails the boat of prajñā; the Śuddhāvāsa, profound and still, mounts the excellence of the ox cart. May moisture reach the three realms, and illumination shine upon the four continents. Great compassion pulls beings out of suffering, as recorded clearly in past sutras; vast kindness grants bliss, its meaning towering in famous teachings. Thus, divine provisional means lower their traces, appearing and disappearing differently; bodhisattvas cherish their stages, manifold in the ways they manifest or conceal. Boundless severe afflictions fan the eight sufferings along the long road; bound by entangling passions, beings circle the six realms on perilous ways. Even with golden chains and jade beds, they still contemplate liberation; carved pearls and decorated silks cannot equal the wayside path. As for the drifting scorch of hot winds, the surge of icy water, dark chambers a thousandfold, black cities a hundred fathoms tall; iron wheels crushing bones, copper pillars charring intestines; knife peaks branching out, sword edges thrusting across: such manifold sufferings are especially perilous and frail. If one breath is not retrieved, then one is parted forever for myriad kalpas; if for a kṣaṇa it is momentarily severed, then one is separated for a thousand generations. Together we reside in Jambudvīpa, born like bubbles in a place of phantoms; our frail and fragile bodies are more precarious than mayflies. The racing of wind and lightning is truly hard to arrest; how much more so when the three marks crowd together, and the two mice gnaw in peril; poison arrows and evil serpents are exceedingly frightful! We hope to rely on the true Dharma to uproot these accumulating defilements, perpetually enjoy a hundred blessings, and forever sever the six sense objects. In facing this unavoidable plight, only the Buddha can be relied upon. Now, on behalf of the six realms, four forms of birth, three destinies, and eight difficulties, with earnest and thorough compassion, with a single mind we universally pay homage to the bodhisattvas of the ten abodes, the śrāvakas of the three conducts; pay homage to Avalokiteśvara the Savior of the World, Ratnacchatra who presented the canopy, Mahāsthāmaprāpta of the Western realm, Gadgadasvara of the Eastern land, Vimalakīrti of the four eloquence skills, Śikhin of the two lands, Ratnacūḍa, Supratiṣṭhita, Maitreya, Mañjuśrī, Vajragarbha, Vimukticandra, Sarvanīvaraṇaviṣkambhin, Nityodyukta, the ten great disciples, and the five hundred arhats. We pray that prisons may become empty and illnesses and afflictions cease. Within the domain of a hundred counties, and beyond the borders of a thousand cities, wherever there are those secretly imprisoned, let them equally be set free. Let people embrace the virtue of covering the snake, and customs transform to rescuing ants; like those who drank poison without dying, or those drawn by swords without injury. May living beings not need thread yet naturally become warm upon death; may those at Wei Bridge be daily sated, and none starve beneath the mulberry bush. Block the three destinies, crush and fill the hells; destroy the demon hosts, and rout the army of birth-and-death. May King Yama generate the mind of the ten wholesome deeds, and Niubang initiate the practice of the five precepts. Like fish lacking water, or birds in a depleted forest, once hearing the Dharma sound, let them abandon their defiled bodies. May all humans direct their five limbs to take refuge in the Three Honoured Ones.