法苑珠林 89.56

89.56

夫欲納受淨法。要須洗蕩內心方堪得受。凡污心之垢唯迷與障。迷者謗無三寶。障者廣起十惡。今教懺者正懺此二。又依梵網經云。若教戒法師。見欲受戒人。應教請二師。和尚阿闍梨二師應問言。汝有七遮罪不。若現身有七遮罪。師不與受。無七遮者得受。若有犯十戒者。教懺悔。在佛菩薩形像前。日日六時誦十戒四十八輕戒。若敬禮三世千佛得見好相。若一七日二三七日乃至一年。要見好相。佛來摩頂。見光華種種異相。便得滅罪。若無好相雖懺無益。縱是現身亦不得戒。若曾受戒。或犯四十八輕戒者。對手懺罪滅。不同七遮。又若欲受戒時。問言。現身不作七逆罪耶。不得與七逆人受戒。七逆者。一出佛身血。二殺父。三殺母。四殺和尚。五殺阿闍梨。六破羯磨轉法輪僧。七殺聖人。若具七遮即身不得戒。餘一切人得受戒。出家人法不向國王禮拜。不向父母禮拜。不向六親禮拜。不向鬼神禮拜。但解法師語。百里千里來求法者。而菩薩法師以惡心瞋心。而不即與授一切眾生戒。犯輕垢罪。

Now, those who wish to receive the pure Dharma must first cleanse and purge their inner minds; only then are they fit to receive it. In general, the defilements that contaminate the mind are solely delusion and hindrances. The deluded slander the Three Jewels, claiming they do not exist; the hindered broadly give rise to the ten unwholesome deeds. The confession now taught is precisely to confess these two. Furthermore, according to the Fanwang jing: If a Dharma master who teaches the precepts sees a person who wishes to receive the precepts, he should instruct them to invite two masters. The two masters—the upādhyāya and the ācārya—should ask: "Do you have the seven obstructive offenses or not?" If in this present body one has the seven obstructive offenses, the masters must not confer them. Those without the seven obstructions may receive them. If one has violated the ten precepts, teach them to confess and repent: before an image of the Buddha or a bodhisattva, during the six periods of the day, recite the ten [major] precepts and the forty-eight minor precepts. If, reverently bowing to the thousand Buddhas of the three periods of time, one obtains a vision of an auspicious sign—whether after one week of seven days, two or three weeks of seven days, or even up to one year—one must see an auspicious sign. If the Buddha comes and pats one's head, or one sees light, flowers, or various extraordinary signs, then the offense is eradicated. If there is no auspicious sign, although one confesses it is of no avail; even in this present body one will not obtain the precepts. If one had previously received the precepts, and happens to have violated the forty-eight minor precepts, confessing before another [practitioner] will eradicate the offense, unlike the seven obstructions. Furthermore, when about to receive the precepts, one is asked: "Have you not committed the seven rebellious offenses in this present body?" One must not confer the precepts on a person guilty of the seven rebellious offenses. The seven rebellious offenses are: first, causing the Buddha's body to bleed; second, killing one's father; third, killing one's mother; fourth, killing one's upādhyāya; fifth, killing one's ācārya; sixth, disrupting the Saṃgha in its karmic acts or turning of the wheel of the Dharma; and seventh, killing a holy person. If one has these seven obstructions, one cannot obtain the precepts in this present body; all other persons may receive the precepts. The rule for renunciants is not to bow down to kings; not to bow down to parents; not to bow down to the six relations; and not to bow down to ghosts and spirits. If someone merely understands the words of the Dharma master and comes from a hundred or a thousand li away seeking the Dharma, yet a bodhisattva Dharma master, with an evil or angry mind, does not immediately confer the precepts for all sentient beings upon them, he commits an offense of minor defilement.