廣弘明集 16.56

16.56

Accumulating wisdom brings forth luminosity; / Accumulating causes accomplishes karmic action. / How was the Capable Benevolent One stimulated? / About to roar the wondrous Dharma, / He paused his light in the high heavens, / And was born from the right flank. / First venturing through the four gates, / He ultimately transcended nine kalpas. / Dimly seeking the spiritual nature, / Vastly pursuing the mysterious wheel. / Though the Way has its gateway, / Its traces leave no omen. / Object and self both pass away; / Mental activities are alike extinguished. / Once the subsequent mind is gone, / How could the hundred negations be exhausted? / Resonance relies on realizing the principle; / Sometimes it is stated through words. / Words do not knock of themselves; / What issues them is the body. / Whatever comes will surely be answered, / Like clay upon the potter's wheel. / Forms reciprocate and echoes respond, / Pertaining both to things and to humans. / Responding to us with a form, / Yet I am blind and ignorant. / Keeping watch over this great night, / How can I pull myself from this suffering? / Looking up, I trace the spiritual marks, / Whence the words of Dharma are uttered. / Were there no revered countenance, / In this darkness, who would see?