[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [坐禪三昧經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614) › 2.51 # 坐禪三昧經 2.51 坐禪三昧經 2.51 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.51) 若行者求佛道入禪，先當繫心專念十方三世諸佛生身，莫念地水火風、山樹草木、天地之中有形之類，及諸餘法一切莫念。但念諸佛生身處在虛空，譬如大海清水中央金山王須彌；如夜闇中然大火；如大施祠中七寶幢。佛身如是，有三十二相、八十種好，常出無量清淨光明，於虛空相青色中，常念佛身相如是，行者便得十方三世諸佛悉在心目前一切悉見三昧。若心餘處緣，還攝令住念在佛身，是時便見東方三百千萬千萬億種無量諸佛。如是南方、西方、北方、四維、上下，隨所念方，見一切佛。如人夜觀星宿，百千無量種星宿悉見。 > If a practitioner seeking the Buddha path enters dhyāna, he should first fasten his mind and exclusively recollect the physical bodies of all Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times. He must not recollect earth, water, fire, wind, mountains, trees, grass, and plants, any kind of form between heaven and earth, nor any other dharmas at all. He should only recollect the physical bodies of the Buddhas abiding in empty space, like Mount Sumeru, the king of golden mountains, in the midst of the clear water of the great ocean; like a great fire kindled in the darkness of the night; like a banner of the seven precious things in a hall of great giving. The Buddha's body is thus, endowed with the thirty-two marks and eighty minor signs, constantly emitting immeasurable pure radiance. Amid the blue expanse of empty space, he should constantly recollect the marks of the Buddha's body in this way. The practitioner will then attain the samādhi in which the Buddhas of the ten directions and the three times are all before his mind's eye, completely seen. If his mind should take an object elsewhere, he draws it back, making it abide in recollection of the Buddha's body. Then he will see in the east hundreds of thousands of myriad kotis of kinds of immeasurable Buddhas. So too in the south, west, north, the four intermediate directions, above, and below: toward whichever direction he directs his thought, he sees all Buddhas. It is like a person observing constellations at night, seeing hundreds of thousands of immeasurable kinds of stars all at once. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.50) - [Next: 2.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.52) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614~en-mt.2.51) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.51) · Pramāṇa