大毘盧遮那經阿闍梨真實智品中阿闍梨住阿字觀門 1.6

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又如迦字，各各自有從生增加之字，如迦字中即有計蓋之字，皆是女聲，緣迦字體上加畫，則成增加之字。體是慧義，而加是定慧相持，合而為一，其體不失，止觀雙行亦遍一切處。所以增加遍於根本，根本遍於增加，從生遍於種子，種子遍於從生。所以梵云「鄔婆縛」，亦名發起，猶如種子生果，果還成種。今此阿字即同種子，能生多果，一一復生百千萬倍，乃至展轉無量不可說也。然見子識果，因既如此，當知果必如之。今此阿字亦如是也，從此根本無師自然之智，一切智業從此而生布諸支分，布支分者即是自心，由此自心即攝一切身分，離心無身、離身無心，亦同於阿字。若遍布此字者即同諸佛，謂從字有果即是佛，能證正知故名為正覺。猶識此字之理性者，故得如來名。此字之性理者，謂此阿字即是本不生義。

Moreover, just as with the syllable *ka*, each has its own generated and added syllables; for example, within the syllable *ka* there are syllables like *ke* and *kai*, which are all feminine. Because strokes are added on top of the base form of the syllable *ka*, they become the added syllables. The base is the meaning of wisdom, and the additions represent concentration and wisdom sustaining each other and uniting into one, with their base form not lost; the dual practice of calm abiding and insight is also omnipresent. Thus, the added pervades the fundamental, and the fundamental pervades the added; what is generated pervades the seed, and the seed pervades what is generated. Therefore in Sanskrit it is called *udbhava*, also meaning 'origination' or 'arising', just as a seed produces fruit, and the fruit in turn becomes a seed. Now, this syllable *A* is identical to the seed, capable of producing many fruits, each of which again produces a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand times more, continuing in transmission limitlessly beyond description. However, by seeing the seed one knows the fruit; since the cause is like this, one should know that the fruit must be likewise. Now, this syllable *A* is also like this: from this fundamental wisdom that is natural and without a teacher, all karmic activities of omniscience are born and distributed throughout the limbs and parts. What is distributed throughout the limbs and parts is one's own mind. Because of this own-mind, all body parts are subsumed: apart from mind there is no body, and apart from body there is no mind, which is also identical to the syllable *A*. If one distributes this syllable everywhere, one is identical to the Buddhas; that is, the fruit born from the syllable is none other than Buddha. Because one can realize correct knowing, one is called the Correctly Awakened One. Because one knows the principle-nature of this syllable, one attains the name Tathāgata. The principle-nature of this syllable means that this syllable *A* is the principle of original non-arising.