《大方广佛华严经》夜摩宫中偈赞品 Avatamsaka Sūtra – Eulogies in the Palace of the Suyama Heavens

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第四会:

这时佛升向夜摩天宫，夜摩天王庄严殿座迎请如来，说颂赞佛，佛即入座(《升夜摩天宫品》第十九）。

功德林菩萨等微尘数菩萨都来集会，十大菩萨各说偈颂称扬佛周遍法界的行愿功德（《夜摩宫中偈赞品》第二十）。

功德林菩萨由于佛的威力，入善思惟三昧，受到诸佛称赞并摩顶，他出定广说十行的法门，并一一分别其行相（《十行品》第二十一）。

功德林菩萨又对诸菩萨说菩萨十无尽藏的一一行相，由此能令一切行者成就无尽大藏（《十无尽藏品》第二十二）。

尔时，觉林菩萨承佛威力,普观十方而说颂言：

Then the bodhisattva Forest of Awareness, imbued with the power of Buddha, looked over the ten directions and said in verse, 

001

譬如工画师，It’s like a painter

分布诸彩色，Spreading the various colours:

虚妄取异相，Delusion grasps different forms

大种无差别。But the elements have no distinctions.

002

大种中无色，In the elements there’s no form,

色中无大种，And no form in the elements;

亦不离大种，And yet apart from the elements

而有色可得。No form can be found.

003

心中无彩画，In the mind is no painting,

彩画中无心，In painting there is no mind;

然不离于心，Yet not apart from mind

有彩画可得。Is any painting to be found.

004

彼心恒不住，That mind never stops,

无量难思议，Manifesting all forms

示现一切色，Countless, inconceivably many,

各各不相知。Unknown to one another.

005

譬如工画师，Just as a painter

不能知自心，Can’t know his own mind

而由心故画，Yet paints due to the mind,

诸法性如是。So is the nature of all things.

006

心如工画师，Mind is like an artist,

能画诸世间，Able to paint the worlds:

五蕴悉从生，The five aggregates all are born thence;

无法而不造。There’s nothing it doesn’t make.

007

如心佛亦尔，As is the mind, so is the Buddha;

如佛众生然，As the Buddha, so living beings:

应知佛与心，Know that Buddha and mind

体性皆无尽。Are in essence inexhaustible.

008

若人知心行，If people know the actions of mind

普造诸世间，Create all the worlds,

是人则见佛，They will see the Buddha

了佛真实性。And understand Buddha’s true nature.

009

心不住于身，Mind does not stay in the body,

身亦不住心，Nor body stay in mind:

而能作佛事，Yet it’s able to perform Buddha-work

自在未曾有。Freely, without precedent.

010

若人欲了知，If people want to really know

三世一切佛，All Buddhas of all times,

应观法界性，They should contemplate the nature of the cosmos:

一切唯心造。All is but mental construction.

尔时,智林菩萨承佛威力,普观十方而说颂言:

Then the bodhisattva Forest of Knowledge, receiving power from the Buddha, looked over the ten directions and said in verse,

001

所取不可取，The grasped cannot be grasped,

所见不可见，The seen cannot be seen,

所闻不可闻，The heard cannot be heard:

一心不思议。The one mind is inconceivable.

002

有量及无量，The finite and the infinite

二俱不可取，Are both ungraspable;

若有人欲取，If any want to apprehend them,

毕竟无所得。 Ultimately they apprehend nothing.

003

不应说而说，To say what should not be said

是为自欺诳，Is self-deception;

己事不成就，When one’s own task is not complete,

不令众欢喜。One cannot gladden others.

004

有欲赞如来，Those who wish to laud the Buddha’s

无边妙色身，Boundless body of wondrous form

尽于无数劫，Could not express it fully

无能尽称述。Even in countless eons.

005

譬如随意珠，Just as the wish-fulfilling jewel

能现一切色，Can manifest all colours,

无色而现色，Being colourless yet manifesting colour,

诸佛亦如是。So are all the Buddhas.

006

又如净虚空，Also like clear space

非色不可见，Is formless and invisible

虽现一切色，And though it shows all forms

无能见空者。None can see space,

007

诸佛亦如是，So it is with the Buddhas;

普现无量色，They manifest infinite forms everywhere

非心所行处，Yet are not in the province of mental activity

一切莫能睹。So no one is able to see them.

008

虽闻如来声，Though the Buddha’s voice is heard,

音声非如来，The sound is not the Buddha;

亦不离于声，And yet not apart from sound

能知正等觉。Can the Truly Enlightened be known.

009

菩提无来去，Enlightenment has no coming or going;

离一切分别，It’s apart from all discriminations:

云何于是中，How then can one

自言能得见？Say he is able to see it?

010

诸佛无有法，The Buddhas have no doctrine:

佛于何有说，How could Buddha have any explanation?

但随其自心，It is just in accord with one’s own mind

谓说如是法。One thinks Buddha expounds such a doctrine.

#Note: Words in Blue are revised translations

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