廣弘明集 27.357

27.357

The origin of where all evils lead is entirely rooted in the mind ground's greed, anger, and delusion. In harming oneself and harming others, nothing exceeds these. Therefore, the sūtras call them the fundamental three poisons, which can vex and distress, harassing body and mind. Arising in response to conditions, they produce three times three, nine varieties of evil. Yet these nine varieties apply in meaning to both good and evil: arising from the three wholesome roots, they are called wholesome courses of action; arising from the three unwholesome roots, they are called unwholesome courses of action. Therefore, the practitioner should constantly unify their mind, not allowing it to be agitated. As soon as subtle marks arise, observe and perceive them; guard the six sense faculties and do not let them be defiled by sense objects. Constantly make vast vows to adorn oneself: May all sentient beings, from this day until bodhi, with their eyes never look upon sights of lustful, depraved, seductive charm that bewilder people; nor look upon sights of angry, ugly forms, butchering and dismembering, or of foolish, dull, arrogant, and deviant multitudes. May they vow to see the form of the ever-abiding dharmakāya in all ten directions, the forms of the bodhisattva's descent and eight aspects [of attaining buddhahood], and the forms of the Tathāgata's major marks and minor signs and the harmonious gathering of the noble assembly. May all sentient beings, with their ears, never hear sounds of weeping, lamenting, and sorrowful sighing, sounds of the bitter suffering of the hells, sounds of the misery endured by hungry ghosts and animals, sounds of the eight sufferings meeting together, sounds of the rising of the four hundred and four ailments, and sounds of the eighty-four thousand afflictions. May their ears constantly hear the sounds of the Buddhas preaching the Dharma with the eight tones of voice, the sounds of the eighty-four thousand pāramitās, and such sounds as the noble fruits of the three vehicles and the merits of the ten stages.