佛說觀佛三昧海經 2.48

2.48

佛告父王：「是故智者為除盲冥，當觀佛眼。佛有五眼，此觀法中先說肉眼。明淨光現觀眼心利，傍生境界不可具說，諦觀佛眼於少時間及觀像眼，未來世中經五生處，眼常明淨眼根無病，除却七劫生死之罪。」佛告阿難勅諸四眾：「勤觀佛眼慎勿休廢，觀佛眼者必獲無量微妙功德。髮際額廣及髮䗍文，眼眶眼眉，眼睫眼畫，如是等眾相光明，若能暫見，除六十劫生死之罪。未來生處必見彌勒，賢劫千佛威光所護，心如蓮華而無所著，終不墮於三塗八難。若坐不見當入塔觀，入塔觀時，亦當作此諸光明想，至心合掌䠒跪諦觀，一日至三日心不錯亂，命終之後生兜率天，面見彌勒菩薩色身端嚴，應感化導，既得見已身心歡喜入正法位。」佛告父王：「如是觀者名為正觀，若異觀者名為邪觀。」

The Buddha told his father, the king: “Therefore, the wise, in order to eliminate blindness and darkness, should contemplate the Buddha’s eyes. The Buddha possesses five eyes; in this contemplation practice, the fleshly eye is explained first. When its clear and pure light appears, the mind contemplating the eye becomes sharp; the realms that arise alongside it cannot be fully described. If one attentively contemplates the Buddha’s eyes for a short time, or contemplates the eyes of an image, through five lifetimes in future worlds one’s eyes will always be clear and pure, the visual organ free from disease, and the sins of seven kalpas of birth and death will be eliminated.” The Buddha told Ānanda to instruct the fourfold assembly: “Diligently contemplate the Buddha’s eyes, taking care not to neglect or abandon it. Those who contemplate the Buddha’s eyes will surely attain immeasurable, wondrous merit. If one can catch even a momentary glimpse of the hairline, the broad forehead, the hair’s spiral curls, the eye sockets, the eyebrows, the eyelashes, the eye-lines, and the light of such various marks, the sins of sixty kalpas of birth and death will be eliminated. In their future rebirths they will certainly see Maitreya, protected by the majestic light of the thousand Buddhas of the Auspicious Kalpa (Bhadrakalpa), their minds will be like lotuses without attachment, and they will never fall into the three wretched realms or the eight conditions of lack of leisure. If, while sitting, one cannot visualize them, one should enter a stūpa to contemplate. When entering a stūpa to contemplate, one should also form these visualizations of the lights, reverently joining palms and kneeling to attentively contemplate for one to three days with an unconfused mind. After life ends, they will be born in Tuṣita Heaven, seeing Maitreya Bodhisattva’s stately and sublime form-body face-to-face, receiving responsive transformation and guidance; and having seen him, body and mind will rejoice, and they will enter into the stage of the true Dharma.” The Buddha told his father, the king: “Contemplating in this way is called correct contemplation; contemplating otherwise is called incorrect contemplation.”