諸經要集 1.14

1.14

又迦葉經云。昔過去久遠阿僧祇劫。有佛出世。號曰光明。入涅槃後。有一菩薩名大精進。年始十六。婆羅門種。端正無比。有一比丘。於白㲲上畫佛形像。持與精進。精進見像心大歡喜。作如是言。如來形像妙好乃爾。況復佛身。願我未來亦得成就如是妙身。言已思念。我若在家此身叵得。即啟父母求哀出家。父母答言。我今年老唯汝一子。汝若出家我等當死。子白父母。若不聽我者。我從今日不飲不食不升床坐。亦不言說。作是誓已。一日不食乃至六日。父母知識八萬四千諸婇女等。同時悲泣。禮大精進尋聽出家。既得出家。持像入山取草為座。在畫像前結跏趺坐。一心諦觀此畫像不異如來。如來像者非覺非知。一切諸法亦復如是。無相離相體性空寂。作是觀已。經於日夜。成就五通。具足無量得無礙辯。得普光三昧。具大光明。以淨天眼。見於東方阿僧祇佛。以淨天耳聞佛所說。悉能聽受。滿足七月以智為食。一切諸天散花供養。從山而出來至村落。為人說法。二萬眾生發菩提心。無量阿僧祇人。住於聲聞緣覺功德。父母親眷。皆住不退無上菩提。佛告迦葉。昔大精進今我身是。由此觀像今得成佛。若有人能學如此觀。未來必當成無上道。

Furthermore, the Kāśyapa Sūtra states: Long ago in the distant past, an asaṃkhyeya of kalpas ago, there was a Buddha who appeared in the world named Radiance. After he entered nirvāṇa, there was a bodhisattva named Great Diligence, sixteen years of age, of the brāhmaṇa caste, matchlessly handsome. There was a bhikṣu who painted an image of the Buddha on fine white cloth and gave it to Great Diligence. Seeing the image, Great Diligence rejoiced greatly in his heart and spoke thus: 'If the image of the Tathāgata is so wonderfully fine, how much more so the Buddha's actual body! May I in the future also accomplish such a wondrous body.' Having spoken, he reflected: 'If I remain a householder, this body cannot be attained.' He then addressed his parents, begging to be allowed to leave the household. His parents replied: 'We are now old and have only you as our single child. If you leave the household, we shall die.' The son addressed his parents: 'If you do not grant me permission, from this day forth I will not drink, eat, sit or lie on a couch, nor will I speak.' Having made this vow, he did not eat for one day, up to six days. His parents, relatives, and eighty-four thousand palace maidens all wept in sorrow at the same time, bowed to Great Diligence, and immediately granted him permission to leave the household. Having left the household, he took the image into the mountains, made a seat of grass, and sat cross-legged before the painted image. With single-minded attention, he contemplated that this painted image was no different from the Tathāgata: 'The Tathāgata's image possesses neither perception nor cognition; all dharmas are also like this—unconditioned, detached from characteristics, their essential nature empty and quiescent.' Having practiced this contemplation, after a day and a night, he accomplished the five abhijñās, fully possessed immeasurable eloquence without impediment, and attained the samādhi of universal light, endowed with great illumination. With the pure heavenly eye, he saw asaṃkhyeyas of Buddhas in the eastern direction; with the pure heavenly ear, he heard what the Buddhas preached and was completely able to receive and uphold it. For a full seven months he took wisdom as his food, and all the devas scattered flowers in offering to him. Coming out of the mountains, he arrived at a village and expounded the Dharma to people. Twenty thousand sentient beings generated the bodhicitta; immeasurable asaṃkhyeyas of people became established in the virtues of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas; and his parents and relatives all became established in non-retrogression toward anuttara-saṃyak-saṃbodhi. The Buddha told Kāśyapa: 'The Great Diligence of that past time is now myself. By virtue of this contemplation of the image, I have now attained buddhahood. If anyone can train in such contemplation, in the future they will certainly accomplish the anuttara path.'