楞严经卷三

Dec 11, 2013 11:48

Mom was telling me about this auntie whom has lost her mind. She wonder why would somebody lost her mind, which reminds me of a Buddha teaching I read about. A lot of us will say it's Karma, it's cause and effect, she is paying her due but in fact it's how nature works there is not connection or relation to sin, crime or elements.

十八界法包括:六根、六尘、六识。

六根:眼如葡萄、耳如荷叶、鼻如悬胆、舌如半月、身如肉桶,
意根是心,是无色根.

六尘:色、声、香、味、触、法。

六识:眼识、耳识、鼻识、舌识、身识、意识。

This scripture Buddha explains reality and unreality.

He understands people tends to relate misfortunate, events and relationships. In actual fact, a lot of these matters are our preception and will - it's all relate to our experience, our upbringing, our limited knowledge of things.

He explains how we uses our 5 senses to create an "experience" and these "experience" defers from differ individuals creating different understand. Yet, truth does not differ thus your "experience" is merely an illusion trap by your own limitation. Many of times, events happens and we think it's related, yet not understanding the world is so inter-related.

Each of the elements have it's own nature and pure, just like each cell in our body does not have any "intent" doing it's part. Yet, because limited by our 6 senses, 6 feelings, 6 understanding of the world. We tend to think events happens around us, for us.

识性没有来源,它是因为眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意等六种根尘的妄起而生发。你现在看法会中众人,你的目光所及之处,历历遍照,就像在镜中观物,并没有分别。可是,你的识性却从这当中一一分别析解,这是文殊,那是富楼那,这是目犍连,那是须菩提,那是舍利弗等等,一一可以指示出来。这个识性了然知解种种事物,它是从观见这里生出,还是从物相这里生出,或者是生于虚空之中,或是无因而起突然而现?阿难,如果你的识性生于观见之中,那么,如果没有明暗,没有色空,也就没有观见,没有观见,识性从何而发生?如果识性生于物相之中,那么,识性既然不从观见中生出,就不能观见到明,也不能观见到暗,明暗都不显现,也就没有色相、空相,如果没有这些物相,识性又从哪里生发出来?如果识性生于虚空,那么,没有相就没有观见,没有观见就无从辨别,那就不能了知明、暗、色、空等等。没有物相,也就没有种种可以依缘的,你的见阗觉知也就没有地方安立。在观见和物相都无的情形下,虚空就等于空无,既使虚空是实有,不同于一般事物,纵然生发起你的识性,又怎样才能将它分别安立起来呢?如果你的识性是无因而起突然而现,那么,你为什么不会将太阳看作是月亮呢?你再详细审视,观见依托于眼睛,物相是从物境中推出,有相即可有物的形状,没有相就只是空无。它们都有依托,而识性却是从哪里生发出来呢?识性是生发启动的,观见则如镜照影,是澄然静止的,他们既不能相和也不能相合,见闻觉知也是如此。所以说,识性并无其依缘之处,它无从自己生发启动。如果识心本来无从生起,那么了别、见闻、觉知等等原来都是圆满湛静的,都是无从生起的。识心、觉见与虚空,以及地、水、火、风等,合在一起叫做七大,它们都是圆满湛静的,都是如来真性,本来无生无灭。阿难,你的心粗糙浮动,不能悟解到见闻觉知生发出认知了别,这些原来都是如来自性真如的妙用。你应当谛观,涉及到见闻、虚空、地、水、火、风这些方面的识心,它们是相同还是相异?是空还是有?是不相同还是不相异?是非空还是非有?你不知道在如来自性中,识心的真性即是本明真知,觉知妙明即是本于自性的真识,它们妙觉湛然不动,盈满世间一切,蕴涵吐纳十方虚空世界,它们没有固定不动的处所,仅仅是循顺著众生的业力而造作生发。世间的人们迷悟无知,以为它是因缘和合而生,是自在自为的。这些都是识心分别计度的结果,只要有所言说,都无真实义。
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