法苑珠林 86.66

86.66

'If there is evil in the eye faculty,
Whose karmic hindrance is called impure,
One should only recite the Mahāyāna
And contemplate the supreme truth.
This is called repenting the eye,
Exhausting all unwholesome karma.
The ear faculty hears disordered sounds,
Disrupting the meaning of harmony,
From which madness and delusion arise,
Just like a foolish monkey.
One should only recite the Mahāyāna
And contemplate the emptiness and signlessness of dharmas,
Permanently leaving behind all evils,
With divine ears hearing the ten directions.
The nose faculty clings to various scents,
Giving rise to various contacts following defilement;
Such a wild, deluded nose
Generates various defiling dusts following defilement.
If one recites the Mahāyāna sūtras
And contemplates dharmas as the true limit,
One will permanently leave behind all evil karmas,
Never to be reborn in future lives.
The tongue faculty gives rise to five kinds
Of unwholesome karma of malicious speech;
If one wishes to tame and harmonize oneself,
One should diligently cultivate a mind of loving-kindness,
Contemplating the truly quiescent meaning of the Dharma,
Free from all conceptual marks.
The mind faculty is like a monkey,
Having not a moment's pause;
If one wishes to subdue it,
One should recite the Mahāyāna sūtras,
Mindful of the Buddha's body of great awakening,
Accomplished by powers and fearlessnesses.
The body is the master of the machinery,
Turning like dust following the wind;
The six thieves play within it,
Freely without hindrance.
If one wishes to extinguish this evil
And permanently leave behind all afflictive dusts,
One should dwell in the city of nirvāṇa,
At ease, with a tranquil mind.
One should only recite the Mahāyāna
And be mindful of the mother of all bodhisattvas;
Measureless excellent expedient means
Are obtained from contemplating the dharmatā.
Such six dharmas
Are called the six cognitive faculties;
The entire ocean of karmic hindrances
All arises from false conceptualization.
If one wishes to repent,
Sit upright and contemplate the dharmatā;
Multitudinous offenses are like frost and dew,
Which the sun of wisdom can disperse.
Therefore, one should with sincere mind
Repent the six cognitive faculties.'