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t17n0761 buddha speaks of dharma collection sutra.g2.0f

English

English version Together with all the Śrāvakas (those who hear the teachings and attain enlightenment) and Pratyekabuddhas (those who attain enlightenment independently) in all the worlds, free from all afflictions and the habitual tendencies of all afflictions, without erroneous views or erroneous memories. The Bodhisattva-mahāsattva (a great-hearted Bodhisattva) sees all beings with the divine eye—whether they are born or die, whether they are good or bad, whether they are coarse or subtle—according to the karmic actions they have performed, in accordance with their causes and effects, and is able to know them as they truly are. The Bodhisattva-mahāsattva's divine eye is ultimately able to attain Buddha-jñāna (the wisdom of the Buddha) and ultimately accomplish Buddha-jñāna. This is called the Bodhisattva-mahāsattva's divine eye. 'Good man! The Bodhisattva-mahāsattva's divine ear is without any obstruction, complete with all good roots and merits, surpassing all ordinary people, Śakro devānām indra (the lord of the gods, Indra), the Caturmahārājakāyikas (Four Heavenly Kings), devas (gods), Nāgas (dragons), Yakṣas (demons), Gandharvas (celestial musicians), Asuras (demons), Garuḍas (mythical birds), Kiṃnaras (mythical beings, half-human and half-bird), Mahoragas (great serpents), Śrāvakas, and Pratyekabuddhas. With this supreme and wonderful, unobstructed, pure divine ear, he hears all sounds—the sounds of devas, Nāgas, Yakṣas, Gandharvas, Asuras, Garuḍas, Kiṃnaras, and Mahoragas, even the sounds of mosquitoes, gadflies, flies, and ants. He hears the sounds of sages and non-sages, but he does not give rise to joy in the sounds of sages, nor does he give rise to aversion in the sounds of non-sages. Hearing the sounds of ordinary people, he does not give rise to thoughts of inferiority; hearing the sounds of Śrāvakas and Pratyekabuddhas, he does not give rise to thoughts of superiority. Hearing the sounds of non-sages, he does not give rise to aversion; hearing the sounds of sages, he does not give rise to joy. He does not give rise to thoughts of beauty or ugliness in any sound. Although he hears all sounds, they are all like echoes in a valley, separate from self and what belongs to self, because they are silent and empty. He is not attached to the entry of sound into the ear, nor is he attached to the entry of sound into consciousness. This is called the Bodhisattva-mahāsattva's divine ear.' 'Good man! The Bodhisattva-mahāsattva's knowledge of the minds of others: the Bodhisattva-mahāsattva truly knows his own mind; because he truly knows his own mind, he truly knows the minds of all beings—that is, he truly knows the greedy mind and the mind free from greed. The Bodhisattva-mahāsattva truly knows the greedy mind without giving rise to anger, and knows the mind free from greed without giving rise to joy, but only gives rise to great compassion for beings with greedy minds and great loving-kindness for beings with minds free from greed. In this way, he truly knows the mind of anger,' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chinese

离瞋心,痴心、离痴心,爱心、离爱心,取心、离取心,染心、离染心,思量心、不思量心,三昧心、离三昧心,如实知解脱心、不解脱心。菩萨摩诃萨如是如实知众生心,于未得解脱众生不生瞋心、得解脱众生不生喜心,唯于未得解脱众生生大悲心、得解脱众生生大慈心。如实知一切法唯是一心,而于彼心、此心不生贪着。菩萨摩诃萨彼知他心智如实知一切众生心;彼诸众生,若菩萨不与念力,则不能知菩萨心,乃至天眼亦不能知,一切声闻、辟支佛亦不能知,何况无智凡夫而能得知?是名菩萨摩诃萨他心智。   “善男子!菩萨摩诃萨宿命智者,一切善根具足故,能知自身过去无量宿命及一切众生过去无量宿命,能知一生、二生、百生、千生、百千万生,乃至无量阿僧祇生、无量百千亿那由他生,善知劫成、善知劫坏,乃至善知无量阿僧祇劫成、劫坏,乃至善知无量无边百千亿那由他劫数成、坏,善知大劫成、善知大劫坏,善知大劫百劫、善知大劫千劫、善知大劫百千劫、百千万劫,乃至善知大劫无量百千万劫。菩萨摩诃萨彼宿命智,唯除诸佛如来及住地菩萨,一切世间天、人、声闻、辟支佛之所迷闷。菩萨如是知我于彼处如是生、如是姓、如是色、如是名、如是饮食、如是命、如是住、如是长短、如是阔狭 现代汉语译本: 远离嗔恨心,远离愚痴心,远离爱欲心,远离执取心,远离染污心,远离思量心,处于三昧状态的心,也远离对三昧的执着,如实地知晓解脱的心和不解脱的心。菩萨摩诃萨(bodhisattva-mahāsattva,伟大的菩萨)如此如实地了解众生的心,对于尚未得到解脱的众生不生嗔恨心,对于已经得到解脱的众生不生欢喜心,只是对于尚未得到解脱的众生生起大悲心,对于已经得到解脱的众生生起大慈心。如实地知晓一切法都只是一心所现,因此对于那个心、这个心都不生起贪着。菩萨摩诃萨以他心智如实地了解一切众生的心;那些众生,如果菩萨不给予念力加持,就不能了解菩萨的心,乃至天眼也不能了解,一切声闻(śrāvaka,听闻佛法而证悟者)、辟支佛(pratyekabuddha,缘觉)也不能了解,更何况没有智慧的凡夫怎么能够了解?这叫做菩萨摩诃萨的他心智。 ‘善男子!菩萨摩诃萨的宿命智,因为一切善根都具足的缘故,能够知道自身过去无量次的宿命,以及一切众生过去无量次的宿命,能够知道一生、二生、百生、千生、百千生、乃至无量阿僧祇(asaṃkhya,无数)生、无量百千亿那由他(nayuta,极大的数目)生,善于知晓劫的形成、善于知晓劫的坏灭,乃至善于知晓无量阿僧祇劫的形成、坏灭,乃至善于知晓无量无边百千亿那由他劫数的形成、坏灭,善于知晓大劫的形成、善于知晓大劫的坏灭,善于知晓大劫的百劫、善于知晓大劫的千劫、善于知晓大劫的百千劫、百千万劫,乃至善于知晓大劫的无量百千万劫。菩萨摩诃萨的这种宿命智,除了诸佛如来和住地菩萨之外,一切世间的天、人、声闻、辟支佛都会感到迷惑。菩萨能够这样知道我在那个地方这样出生、这样的姓氏、这样的容貌、这样的名字、这样的饮食、这样的寿命、这样的住所、这样的长短、这样的宽窄……’

English

English version: To be apart from hatred, to be apart from foolishness, to be apart from lust, to be apart from grasping, to be apart from defilement, to be apart from deliberation, the mind in samadhi (samādhi, a state of meditative consciousness), and also to be apart from attachment to samadhi, to truly know the liberated mind and the unliberated mind. A Bodhisattva-Mahasattva (bodhisattva-mahāsattva, a great bodhisattva) thus truly knows the minds of sentient beings, not generating hatred towards those who have not attained liberation, nor generating joy towards those who have attained liberation, but only generating great compassion towards those who have not attained liberation, and generating great loving-kindness towards those who have attained liberation. To truly know that all dharmas (dharma, teachings or phenomena) are only manifestations of the one mind, and therefore not generating attachment to this mind or that mind. A Bodhisattva-Mahasattva, with their mind-reading wisdom, truly knows the minds of all sentient beings; those sentient beings, if the Bodhisattva does not grant them the power of mindfulness, cannot know the Bodhisattva's mind, not even with the heavenly eye, nor can all the Shravakas (śrāvaka, a hearer or disciple) and Pratyekabuddhas (pratyekabuddha, a solitary buddha) know it, let alone ignorant ordinary beings. This is called the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva's mind-reading wisdom. ‘Good man! A Bodhisattva-Mahasattva's knowledge of past lives, because of the perfection of all good roots, can know their own past countless lives and the past countless lives of all sentient beings, can know one life, two lives, hundreds of lives, thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives, even countless asamkhyas (asaṃkhya, an immeasurable number) of lives, countless hundreds of thousands of millions of nayutas (nayuta, a very large number) of lives, skillfully knowing the formation of kalpas (kalpa, an aeon), skillfully knowing the destruction of kalpas, even skillfully knowing the formation and destruction of countless asamkhya kalpas, even skillfully knowing the formation and destruction of countless boundless hundreds of thousands of millions of nayuta kalpas, skillfully knowing the formation of great kalpas, skillfully knowing the destruction of great kalpas, skillfully knowing hundreds of kalpas of great kalpas, skillfully knowing thousands of kalpas of great kalpas, skillfully knowing hundreds of thousands of kalpas of great kalpas, hundreds of millions of kalpas, even skillfully knowing countless hundreds of thousands of millions of kalpas of great kalpas. This knowledge of past lives of a Bodhisattva-Mahasattva, except for all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas abiding in the stages, is bewildering to all worldly beings, gods, humans, Shravakas, and Pratyekabuddhas. The Bodhisattva can thus know, 'I was born in that place with such a lineage, such an appearance, such a name, such food, such a lifespan, such a dwelling, such a length, such a width...'’ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Chinese

、如是好丑、如是苦乐,我于彼死生于某处、于彼处死于此处生,如是生、如是姓、如是色、如是名、如是饮食、如是命、如是住、如是长短、如是阔狭、如是好丑、如是苦乐。如知己身,知一切众生身亦如是知;乃至蚊、虻、蝇、蚁等亦如是知。菩萨摩诃萨彼宿命无碍、无著、无住、无障、无滞,不失时,与大慈大悲相应,甚深不可思量,远离使烦恼及习气烦恼,一切清净、功德、智慧以为庄严,是名菩萨摩诃萨宿命智。   “善男子!何者是菩萨摩诃萨如意通智?所谓一切福德智慧成就无障碍、自然无分别,无量阿僧祇百千万亿那由他劫修行布施、持戒、忍辱、精进、禅定、三昧、三摩拔提,智慧增上自身力故、如来净天增上缘故,是菩萨彼如意现前自然无障碍,胜一切世间,而作利益众生。是菩萨如是随心欲住能如是住、随心欲示现如是境界能如是示现。   “是菩萨一切处自在如意通示现无障碍。是菩萨应以一众生形相现一切众生形相而可化者,是菩萨为彼现一众生形色示现为一切众生形色,随彼众生应受道器现诸化身作种种事、种种言语、种种威仪而现在前。是菩萨心念一切众生色像欲作一切佛像,即时能现一切众生色像成一切佛像;是菩萨心念一切佛色像欲作一切众生色像,即时能成一切佛色像 现代汉语译本: ‘像这样好或丑,像这样苦或乐,我知道自己在某处死亡,又在彼处出生;在那里死亡,又在这里出生,像这样生,像这样的姓氏,像这样的肤色,像这样的名字,像这样的饮食,像这样的寿命,像这样的住所,像这样的长短,像这样的宽窄,像这样好或丑,像这样苦或乐。’如同了解自己的身体,了解一切众生的身体也像这样;乃至蚊、虻(měng,牛虻)、蝇、蚁等也像这样了解。菩萨摩诃萨对于过去世的生命没有障碍、没有执著、没有停滞、没有阻碍、没有延误,与大慈大悲相应,非常深奥不可思议,远离了烦恼和习气烦恼,一切清净、功德、智慧都用来庄严自身,这叫做菩萨摩诃萨的宿命智。 ‘善男子!什么是菩萨摩诃萨的如意通智?就是一切福德智慧成就,没有障碍,自然而然没有分别,经过无量阿僧祇(ā sēng qí,极大的数字单位)百千万亿那由他(nā yóu tā,极大的数字单位)劫修行布施、持戒、忍辱、精进、禅定、三昧(sān mèi,佛教用语,指心神安定,进入忘我境界)、三摩拔提(sān mó bá tí,又译三摩钵底,意为‘等至’,指心住于一境,达到平等安定的状态),因为智慧增长自身的力量,以及如来清净天的增上缘故,这位菩萨的如意神通自然现前没有障碍,胜过一切世间,从而利益众生。这位菩萨能够随心所欲地安住,就能像那样安住;随心所欲地示现各种境界,就能像那样示现。 ‘这位菩萨在一切处自在地示现如意神通,没有障碍。这位菩萨应该以一个众生的形相示现一切众生的形相,来度化那些可以被度化的众生,这位菩萨为了他们示现一个众生的形色,也示现为一切众生的形色,随着那些众生应该接受的道器,示现各种化身,做出种种事情、说出种种言语、做出种种威仪,从而出现在他们面前。这位菩萨心中想着一切众生的色像,想要做成一切佛像,立刻就能示现一切众生的色像,成就一切佛像;这位菩萨心中想着一切佛的色像,想要做成一切众生的色像,立刻就能成就一切佛的色像。

English

English version: 'Such is good and bad, such is suffering and joy. I die in such a place and am born there; I die there and am born here. Such is birth, such is the family name, such is the complexion, such is the name, such is the food, such is the lifespan, such is the dwelling, such is the length, such is the width, such is good and bad, such is suffering and joy.' Just as one knows one's own body, one knows the bodies of all sentient beings in the same way; even mosquitoes, gadflies, flies, ants, and the like are known in the same way. The Bodhisattva-Mahasattva has unobstructed, unattached, unlingering, unhindered, and untardy knowledge of past lives, corresponding to great loving-kindness and great compassion, profoundly inconceivable, free from afflictions and habitual afflictions, adorned with all purity, merit, and wisdom. This is called the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva's knowledge of past lives. 'Good man! What is the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva's power of wish-fulfilling penetration? It is the unobstructed and naturally undifferentiated accomplishment of all merit and wisdom, cultivated through immeasurable asamkhya (ā saṃkhya, countless) hundreds of thousands of millions of nayutas (nā yuta, a large number) of kalpas (kalpa, an aeon) of giving, upholding precepts, patience, diligence, dhyana (dhyana, meditation), samadhi (samādhi, a concentrated state of mind), and samapatti (samāpatti, attainment), due to the increased power of one's own wisdom and the increased conditions of the pure heavens of the Tathagata (Tathāgata, 'the one who has thus come' or 'the one who has thus gone,' an epithet of the Buddha). The Bodhisattva's wish-fulfilling power naturally manifests without obstruction, surpassing all the world, and benefits sentient beings. The Bodhisattva can abide as desired and manifest such realms as desired. 'The Bodhisattva freely manifests the power of wish-fulfilling penetration without obstruction in all places. The Bodhisattva should manifest the form of one sentient being as the form of all sentient beings for those who can be transformed. The Bodhisattva manifests the form and appearance of one sentient being as the form and appearance of all sentient beings. According to the capacity of those sentient beings to receive the Dharma, the Bodhisattva manifests various transformation bodies, performing various deeds, speaking various languages, and displaying various dignified behaviors, appearing before them. If the Bodhisattva thinks of the forms and appearances of all sentient beings and wishes to create all Buddha images, the Bodhisattva can immediately manifest the forms and appearances of all sentient beings and accomplish all Buddha images. If the Bodhisattva thinks of the forms and appearances of all Buddhas and wishes to create the forms and appearances of all sentient beings, the Bodhisattva can immediately accomplish the forms and appearances of all Buddhas.' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------