Showing posts with label Sutra. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

若人欲了知 三世一切佛 应观法界性 一切唯心造

觉林菩萨偈
又名破地狱偈,出自《大方广佛华严经》卷一九“升夜摩天宫品”觉林菩萨偈:“若人欲了知.三世一切佛.应观法界性.一切唯心造。”
华严第四会夜摩天宫.无量菩萨来集说偈赞佛.尔时觉林菩萨.承佛威力.遍观十方.而说颂言.

譬如工画师.分布诸彩色.虚妄取异相.大种无差别.
大种中无色.色中无大种.亦不离大种.而有色可得.心中无彩画.彩画中无心.然不离于心.有彩画可得.
彼心恒不住.无量难思议.示现一切色.各各不相知.
譬如工画师.不能知自心.而由心故画.诸法性如是.心如工画师.能画诸世间.五蕴悉从生.无法而不造.
如心佛亦尔.如佛众生然.应知佛与心.体性皆无尽.
若人知心行.普造诸世间.是人则见佛.了佛真实性.
心不住于身.身亦不住心.而能作佛事.自在未曾有.
若人欲了知.三世一切佛.应观法界性.一切唯心造.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

佛说譬喻经 The Parable Sutra

大唐三藏法师义净译
Translated into Chinese by I-ching
Translated into English by Charles Patton

如是我闻。一时薄伽梵。在室罗伐城逝多林给孤独园。
Thus have I heard. One time, the Bhagavat was staying in the Jetàvana grove near the city of Sràvasti.
尔时世尊于大众中。告胜光王曰。大王。我今为王略说譬喻。诸有生死味着过患。王今谛听。善思念之。
 At that time, the World Honored One was among a great congregation and addressed the King named Brilliance, "Great king, I will now for his majesty briefly discuss a parable about the beings of sa§sàra who [suffer] feelings, clingings, mistakes, and troubles. Your majesty should now listen closely, and well think about it.
乃往过去。于无量劫。时有一人。游于旷野为恶象所逐。怖走无依。
"Going back in the past an immeasurable aeon (kalpa), there was a person who went into the wilderness and was chased by an evil elephant. Fearfully, he fled without any refuge.
见一空井。傍有树根。即寻根下。潜身井中。有黑白二鼠。互啮树根。于井四边有四毒蛇。欲螫其人。下有毒龙。
Then he saw an empty well. And dangling into it was a tree's root.
Thereupon, he quickly went down the root and hid himself inside the well. There were two rats, dark and light, that together gnawed on tree root above him. And in the well, its four sides had four poisonous snakes that desired to bite that person. And below there was a poisonous serpent.
心畏龙蛇恐树根断。树根蜂蜜。五滴堕口。树摇蜂散。下螫斯人。野火复来。烧然此树。
His mind was terrified by the snakes and serpent, and he was apprehensive about tree root breaking. The tree roots had in them the honey of bees, five drops of which fell into his mouth. When the tree shook, bees swarmed down to sting the person. And brush fires came repeatedly to burn the tree."
王曰。是人云何。受无量苦。贪彼少味。
The king said, "How is it that this person should undergo such endless distress, craving so little feeling?"
尔时世尊告言。大王。旷野者喻于无明长夜旷远。言彼人者。喻于异生。象喻无常。井喻生死。险岸树根喻命。黑白二鼠以喻昼夜。
At that time, the World Honored One addressed the great king, "The wilderness is a metaphor for that long night under ignorance that is vast and distant. The words 'that person' is a metaphor for a being in yet another life. The elephant is a metaphor for impermanence. The well is a metaphor for sa§sàra. The dangerous crossing of the tree roots is a metaphor for life. The dark and light pair of rats is a metaphor for day and night.
啮树根者。喻念念灭。其四毒蛇。喻于四大。蜜喻五欲。蜂喻邪思。火喻老病。毒龙喻死。
Them gnawing the tree root is a metaphor for thoughts begetting thoughts until death. Those four snakes are a metaphor for being in the four elements. The honey is a metaphor for the five desires and the bees are a metaphor for false thinking. The fire is a metaphor for old age and illness. And the poisonous serpent is a metaphor for death.
是故大王。当知生老病死。甚可怖畏。常应思念。勿被五欲之所吞迫。
"This is why, great king, you should know that birth, old age, illness, and death are quite terrible. Always should you think and be mindful of them. Do not make yourself subject to the slavery of the five desires."
尔时世尊重说颂曰
Thereupon, the World Honored One gravely spoke in verse,
旷野无明路  人走喻凡夫
"The wilderness is the path of ignorance,
The person fleeing is a metaphor for the ordinary man,
大象比无常  井喻生死岸
The great elephant is a simile for impermanence,
And the well is a metaphor for the shore of sa§sàra.
树根喻于命  二鼠昼夜同
The tree roots are a metaphor for being in this life,
The two rats are the same as night and day,
啮根念念衰  四蛇同四大
The gnawed root is the decay of thought upon thought,
And the four snakes are the same as the four elements.
蜜滴喻五欲  蜂螫比邪思
The dripping honey is a metaphor for the five desires,
The bee stings a simile for false thinking,
火同于老病  毒龙方死苦
The fire is the same as having old age and illness,
And the poisonous serpent is the way to the suffering of death.
智者观斯事  象可厌生津
The wise regard these matters thus:
The elephant can weary a being's crossing,
五欲心无著  方名解脱人
The five desires can lead the mind to detachment,
And the way is called the liberated person.
镇处无明海  常为死王驱
An oppressive place is the ocean of ignorance,
Always is death the ruler chasing us.
宁知恋声色  不乐离凡夫
One must know that the love of sound and form
Is not pleasant when they leave the ordinary man."
尔时胜光大王闻佛为说生死过患。得未曾有。深生厌离。
At that time, the great king Brilliance heard the Buddha give this talk on birth and death being a passage through troubles and attained an unprecedentedly deep birth of disillusionment [with the world].
合掌恭敬。一心瞻仰。白佛言。世尊。如来大慈。为说如是微妙法义。我今顶戴。
With his palms together reverently and single-mindedly gazing respectfully, he said to the Buddha, "World Honored One, it is greatly compassionate for the Tathàgata to give a talk on such a subtle and wondrous meaning of the Dharma. I now am crowned."
佛言。善哉善哉。大王。当如说行。勿为放逸。
The Buddha said, "Excellent, excellent. Great king, you should practice as it has been propounded and not go about unrestrained."
时胜光王及诸大众。皆悉欢喜。信受奉行
Then King Brilliance and those of the great congregation were all elated. They faithfully received, transmitted, and upheld it.

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Diamond Sutra


一切有为法
如梦幻泡影
如露亦如电
应作如是观

All conditioned things
Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows;
Like dew and also like lightning.
Thus should they be contemplated.

Monday, October 5, 2015

Sūtra of the Heart of Prajñā-Pāramitā

Sūtra of the Heart of Prajñā-Pāramitā

Translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in the Tang Dynasty
by
The Tripiṭaka Master Xuanzang from China

As Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva went deep into prajñā-pāramitā, he saw in his illumination the emptiness of the five aggregates, [the realization of] which delivers one from all suffering and tribulations.
    “Śāriputra, form is no different from emptiness; emptiness is no different from form. In effect, form is emptiness and emptiness is form. The same is true for sensory reception, perception, mental processing, and consciousness. Śāriputra, dharmas, with empty appearances, have neither birth nor death, neither impurity nor purity, neither increase nor decrease.
    “Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, nor sensory reception, perception, mental processing, or consciousness; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, or mental faculty, nor sights, sounds, scents, flavors, tactile sensations, or mental objects; no spheres, from eye sphere to mental consciousness sphere. There is neither ignorance nor ending of ignorance, neither old age and death nor ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, accumulation [of afflictions], cessation [of suffering], or the path. There is neither wisdom-knowledge nor attainment because there is nothing to attain.
    “Bodhisattvas, because they rely on prajñā-pāramitā, have no hindrances in their minds. Without hindrance, they have no fear. Staying far from inverted dreaming and thinking, they will ultimately attain nirvāṇa. Buddhas of the past, present, and future, because they rely on prajñā-pāramitā, all attain anuttara-samyak-saṁbodhi.
    “Hence, we know that the Prajñā-Pāramitā [Mantra] is the great spiritual mantra, the great illumination mantra, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequaled mantra, which can remove all suffering. It is true, not false. Hence the Prajñā-Pāramitā Mantra is pronounced. Then the mantra goes:

    gate gate pāragate pāra-saṁgate bodhi svāhā ||”

—Sūtra of the Heart of Prajñā-Pāramitā
Translated from the digital Chinese Canon (T08n0251)

http://www.sutrasmantras.info/sutra16.html 

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

般若波罗蜜多心经 The Heart Sutra

 般若波罗蜜多心经
玄奘译本
孔睿(Edward Conze) 

观自在菩萨,
Avalokita, the Holy Lord and Bodhisattva,
行深般若波罗蜜多时,
was moving in the deep course of the Wisdom which has gone beyond,
 照见五蕴皆空,度一切苦厄。
He looked down from on high, He beheld but five heaps, and He saw that in their own-being they were empty. (One crossed beyond all suffering and tribulations)
舍利子,
Here, O Sariputra,
色不异空,空不异色,
form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form,
 色即是空,空即是色,
emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form,
受想行识,亦复如是。
the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness.
舍利子,
 Here, O Sariputra,
是诸法空相,
all dharmas are marked with emptiness ;
不生不灭, 不垢不净,不增不减。
 they are not produced or stopped, not defiled or immaculate, not deficient or complete.
是故空中无色,无受想行识,
 Therefore, O Sariputra,
in emptiness there is no form nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness ;
无眼耳鼻舌身意,无色声香味触法,
 No eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind ; No forms, sounds, smells, tastes, touchables or objects of mind ;
无眼界,乃至无意识界。无无明,亦无无明尽,乃至无老死,亦无老死尽。 无苦集灭道,无智亦无得。
 No sight-organ element, and so forth, until we come to :
No mind-consciousness element ; There is no ignorance, no extinction of ignorance, and so forth, until we come to : There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path.
There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment.
以无所得故,菩提萨埵,依般若波罗蜜多故,心无挂碍,无挂碍故,无有恐怖,远离颠倒梦想,究竟涅槃。
Therefore, O Sariputra,
it is because of his non-attainmentness that a Bodhisattva, through having relied on the Perfection of Wisdom, dwells without thought-coverings. In the absence of thought-coverings he has not been made to tremble,
he has overcome what can upset, and in the end he attains to Nirvana.
三世诸佛,依般若波罗蜜多 故,得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提。
All those who appear as Buddhas in the three periods of time fully awake to the utmost, right and perfect Enlightenment because they have relied on the Perfection of Wisdom.
故知般若波罗蜜多,是大神咒,是大明咒,是无上咒,是无等等咒,能除一切苦,真实不虚。
Therefore one should know the prajnaparamita as the great spell, the spell of great knowledge, the utmost spell, the unequalled spell, allayer of all suffering, in truth -- for what could go wrong ?
故说般若波罗蜜多咒,即说咒曰:揭谛揭 谛,波罗揭谛,波罗僧揭谛,菩提萨婆诃。
By the prajnaparamita has this spell been delivered. It runs like this :
gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
( Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all-hail ! -- )
This completes the Heart of perfect Wisdom.