諸經要集 10.152

10.152

'The Buddha is likened to amṛta: / Hearing him, one should never be sated; / One must not indulge in laxity, / For it brings no benefit to anyone. / The sea of birth and death in the five destinies / Is likened to falling into foul mud; / Entangled and bound by love and desire, / Lacking wisdom, one is profoundly deluded. / When the sun rises, the many flowers open, / Likened to the form body of the Buddha; / When the sun sets, the flowers close again, / Likened to the Bhagavat entering parinirvāṇa. / When encountering and seeing the era of a Tathāgata, / One must diligently and vigorously receive [the teaching]; / Remove the hindrance of drowsiness, / And do not say the Buddha is forever present. / The essential wisdom of the profound Dharma / Does not rely on form as condition; / For those who manifest attachments, / Know that this is a skillful expedient. / What is delivered by skillful expedients / Has benefit and is not undertaken in vain; / And the manifestation of this transformation / Is likewise for the sake of all.'