法苑珠林 86.65

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佛語舍利弗。若有善男子善女人。意不欲入三塗者。諸所作過皆當悔過。不當覆藏。不欲生邊地無三寶處。皆當悔過。不當覆藏。乃至欲得三乘道果者。皆當悔過。不當覆藏。佛語舍利弗。若使天下男子女人。皆得阿羅漢及辟支佛。若有人供養天下阿羅漢辟支佛滿千。不如持悔過經於晝夜各三過讀一日其得福勝供養天下阿羅漢辟支佛。百倍千倍萬倍億倍。又依普賢觀經云。懺悔六根本意。由業障故。不淨六根。具造十惡。處處貪著。遍六情根。此六根業枝條華葉。悉滿三界一切生處。增長無明。今欲懺悔。廣請諸佛菩薩。讀誦大乘志心徹倒。發願求破壞身心一切惡業。念念之中得見普賢十方諸佛。故說偈云。

The Buddha told Śāriputra: 'If there are good men and good women whose minds do not wish to enter the three bad paths, all offenses committed must be repented and must not be concealed. Those who do not wish to be born in borderlands where there are no Three Jewels must all repent and must not conceal them. Even those who wish to attain the fruits of the paths of the three vehicles must all repent and must not conceal them.' The Buddha told Śāriputra: 'If all the men and women under heaven were to become arhats and pratyekabuddhas, and if someone were to make offerings to a full thousand of all the arhats and pratyekabuddhas under heaven, it would not compare to upholding the Repentance Sūtra, reading it three times each during the day and three times during the night for one day: the merit obtained thereby surpasses making offerings to all the arhats and pratyekabuddhas under heaven by a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times, a hundred million times.' Furthermore, according to the Sūtra on the Contemplation of Samantabhadra, the primary meaning of repenting the six sense faculties is that due to karmic hindrances, the six sense faculties are impure, fully committing the ten unwholesome deeds, attached to greed everywhere throughout the six cognitive faculties. The branches, flowers, and leaves of the karma of these six faculties completely fill all places of birth across the tridhātu, increasing ignorance. Now, wishing to repent, one extensively invites the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, recites the Mahāyāna with utter sincerity, and makes vows seeking to destroy all evil karma of body and mind, so that in thought-moment after thought-moment one may behold Samantabhadra and the Buddhas of the ten directions. Therefore, the verse says: