The Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva with Commentary: Spiritual Penetrations in the Palace of the Trayastrimsha Heaven

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地		The Sutra of the Past Vows of
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Earth Store Bodhisattva with Commentary
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		S PIRITUAL	P ENETRATIONS	IN THE P ALACE	OF THE T RAYASTRIMSHA	H	EAVEN
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Revised by Bhikshuni Heng Chih
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Translated by the International Translation Institute
本						Commentary by the Venerable Master Hua
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		雖然是很少，但因為西方人從來			Although few, Westerners who hear the true
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		也不明白佛法，所以現在聽見真實			Buddhadharma mostly do not recognize it,
		的佛法也不認識了。就好像沒有看			because they do not understand Buddhism.
經
		見過金子的人，你給他金子，他就			For example, take someone who has never seen
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		拿這個金子當銅來看。拿金當銅、			gold. If you hand him gold, he may treat is as
淺					he would copper. Another example would be
拿鑽石當玻璃，因為他不認識，所
to treat diamond as glass. Similarly, although
以你給他講真正的佛法，他說這是
I explain the true Buddhadharma, which is
很平常的，說這是講外邊的，不是
釋
rare, many do not recognize it. Th ey consider
講裡邊的。其實，如果外邊都不明
宣國比
it ordinary and external, rather than internal.
白，裡邊怎麼會明白？要裡外雙管
化際丘
How can you understand the inner if you do
	上譯尼	齊下。你不明白理，就不能修行；
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not even understand the outer? You must try
	人經恒	你不修行，也不會明白理。所以要
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a two-pronged approach. You cannot cultivate
	講學持	解行相應──解就是明白佛法；行
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without understanding principles; you cannot
正 法 印	解院	就是照佛法去實行。
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PROPER DHARMA SEAL understand principles if you do not cultivate.
	記修	你看釋迦牟尼佛說這部《地藏
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Understanding and practice must correspond.
錄訂
		經》的時候，連文殊師利菩薩都			“Understanding”	means	to understand
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翻
		提出來說，恐怕小果聲聞、天龍			the Buddhadharma	and “practice”	means
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譯
		八部，和未來的一切眾生，不能信			cultivating according to the Buddhadharma.
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		受。因為他們沒有善根，善根不			When Shakyamuni Buddha explained this
		夠，所以雖然聽見佛所說誠實的			Earth Store Sutra, even Manjushri Bodhisattva
raised his concern that Sound Hearers of small
話，必懷疑惑，他心裡必定生出一
attainment, as well as the Eightfold Division
種疑惑來。「設使頂受」：雖然頂
of gods, dragons and others and all beings of
受，假設他就是暫時頂受了，這麼
the future will not believe it. Since they do
信一個很短的時間。
not have enough roots of goodness, although
好像有人也是一樣皈依，但是他
					they hear these	honest words	the Buddha
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不生信心，因為在他腦裡頭充滿了
articulated, they will be skeptical, for sure. Even
邪知邪見，你對他講正法，他也不
if they receive the teaching most respectfully,
懂得。因為聽不懂，所以「未免興
although they may respect it, their veneration
謗」：他免不了生毀謗。釋迦牟尼
is temporary and short-lived.
佛在世的時候，文殊師利菩薩就這
For instance, some people just go along
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樣提議，「唯願世尊」：我現在唯願 世尊您！「廣說地藏菩薩摩訶薩」： 多說一點有關地藏菩薩摩訶薩，這位 大菩薩，在「因地作何行，立何願」 ：什麼叫因地呢？因地就是前生，就 是宿世。作何行──他是修什麼行 門？立何願──所發的是什麼願？我 們人發願，無論發什麼願，必須要履 行我們的諾言。照著我們所說的話去 做，不能改變的，無論什麼樣的困苦 艱難，都要依照願力去做。「而能成 就不思議事」：而這尊地藏菩薩，他 能成就這種不可思議的事，這種不可 思議的境界。 佛告文殊師利。譬如三千大千世界。 所有草木叢林。稻麻竹葦。山石微 塵。一物一數。作一恒河。一恒河 沙。一沙一界。一界之內。一塵一 劫。一劫之內。所積塵數。盡充為 劫。地藏菩薩證十地果位已來。千倍 多於上喻。何況地藏菩薩在聲聞辟支 正 佛地。 法 印 「佛告文殊師利」：釋迦牟尼佛 告訴文殊師利菩薩，說我現在舉出一 個比喻。譬如什麼呢？「譬如三千大 千世界」：在這三千大千世界裡邊， 「所有草木叢林，稻麻竹葦」：這些 東西都不單單只有一個，而是所有的 木，所有的。草多了叫叢，木多了叫 林。稻是吃的，麻是用的。三千大千 世界內的竹子、葦，你算算有多少？ 你能數得過來嗎？數不過來的。「山 石微塵」：微塵多了變成山。三千大 千世界裡這麼多的東西，每一類「一 物一數」：一件東西作一個數目。作 一個多少數目？ December 2016 Vajra boDhi Sea 9 ProPer Dharma Seal with the crowd and take refuge, but they have no faith because their heads are full of deviant knowledge and deviant views. They do not understand the proper Dharma when you explain it to them. They do not know what they hear, they will still be unable to avoid slandering it. While Shakyamuni Buddha was in the world, Manjushri Bodhisattva suggested: My only wish is that the World Honored One will proclaim for everyone what Earth Store Bodhisattva Mahasattva practiced and what vows he made while on the level of planting causes. I wish you, World Honored One, will say a bit more about Earth Store Bodhisattva Mahasattva, this great Bodhisattva. What practices did he cultivate and what vows did he make in lives past? No matter what vows we make, we must fulfill our promises and do what we say we will. We cannot deviate from that no matter what kind of hardship or difficulty we encounter. We should practice according to our vows. What are his vows that now enable him to accomplish, to succeed, in doing such inconceivable deeds? What type of inconceivable state has Earth Store Bodhisattva achieved? Sutra: The Buddha said to Manjushri, “By way of analogy, suppose that each blade of grass and tree in a field or forest, each rice plant, hemp stalk, bamboo, reed, and each dust mote from mountain boulders in a Three Thousand Great Thousand World System counted as a Ganges river. Then consider the grains of sand in every one of those Ganges rivers. Then suppose that each grain of sand was a world and that each dust mote in each of those worlds was an eon. Then suppose each dust mote accumulated in each of those eons was itself an eon. The time elapsed since Earth Store Bodhisattva was certified to the position of the Tenth Ground is a thousand times longer than that in the above analogy. Even longer was the time he dwelled on the levels of Sound Hearer and Pratyekabuddha. Commentary: The Buddha said to Manjushri. Shakyamuni Buddha told Bodhisattva Manjushri, “Let’s consider a comparison.” What comparison? “By way of analogy, consider each blade of grass and tree in a field or forest, each rice plant, hemp stalk, bamboo, reed and each dust mote from mountain boulders in a Three Thousand Great Thousand World System. We are not talking about just one of each of these items, but all the trees, all the forests. The word “forest” is composed of two Chinese characters: 叢林cóng lín. 叢cóng literally means grassy areas; 林 lín literally means groves of trees. Rice plants are for food; hemp stalks make useful materials. How many bamboo plants and reeds are there in a Three Thousand Great Thousand World System? Can they all be counted? They cannot. Nor can each dust mote from mountain boulders. An accumulation of lots of motes of dust can create a mountain. There are so many things in the Three Thousand Great Thousand World System. Suppose each…counted as a Ganges river. 待續 To be continued

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