廣弘明集 28.29

28.29

The upāsaka, Lord Shen, respectfully speaks to the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times, the original teacher Śākyamuni Tathāgata, the World-Honoured One Amitābha of Sukhāvatī, and so on, all holy ones, and today's great worthies and virtues of both the clergy and the laity: The physical form has no fixed essence; it is an aggregation of multiple conditions. The four subtleties are not the same, and the wind element is likewise different. When analyzed and separated, it is fundamentally not a single thing; the liver of Yan and the gallbladder of Chu are insufficient as an analogy. In quiet contemplation seeking the self, at no time can it be found. Yet we accumulate this sinking ignorance, birth after birth without end. If even for a single thought we encounter it, before an instant has elapsed, the agitation of habituated obstacles immediately misleads us on our path. We arbitrarily point to emptiness and call it out, naming it 'existence.' We enrich ourselves and harm others, without rest day or night, accumulating wealth outside the body to satisfy our desires, and seizing what is not our portion to accomplish our extravagance. How could it merely be warming the flesh and satisfying the belly like this? It goes as far as accumulating full chests and filling storehouses, yet never wearing the garments; overflowing the vessels and stuffing the kitchens, only to discard the excess after sating ourselves. We never consider where the grain and silk come from, nor that our affairs do not stem from ourselves alone. The drifting black-haired people