..續本文上一頁 In this aureole reside transformed Buddhas numbering as many as a million kotis of nayutas multiplied by the number of the sands of the Ganges. Each Buddha is attended by innumerable and uncountable transformed bodhisattvas.
The Buddha Amitayus possesses eighty-four thousand physical characteristics, each having eighty-four thousand secondary marks of excellence. Each secondary mark emits eighty-four thousand rays of light; each light shining universally upon the lands of the ten quarters, embracing, and not forsaking, those who are mindful of the Buddha. It is impossible to describe in detail these rays of light, physical characteristics and marks, transformed Buddhas, and so forth. But you can see them clearly with your mind”s eye through contemplation.
Those who have envisioned them see all the Buddhas of the ten quarters. Because they see the Buddhas, this is called the Buddha-Recollection Samadhi. To attain this contemplation is to perceive the bodies of all the Buddhas. By perceiving these, one also realizes the Buddha”s mind. The Buddhas” mind is Great Compassion. It embraces sentient beings with unconditional Benevolence. Those who have practiced this contemplation will, after death, be born in the presence of the Buddhas and realize the insight into the non-arising of all dharmas. For this reason, the wise should concentrate their thoughts and visualize Amitayus.
In contemplating him, begin with one of his physical characteristics. Visualize only the white tuft of hair between his eyebrows until you see it quite clearly and distinctly. When you visualize it, all the eighty-four thousand physical characteristics will spontaneously become manifest. When you see Amitayus, you will also see innumerable Buddhas of the ten quarters. Having visualized these innumerable Buddhas, you will receive from each the prediction of your future Buddhahood. This is the general perception of all the physical characteristics of the Buddha and is known as the ninth contemplation. To practice in this way is called the correct contemplation, and to practice otherwise is incorrect."
[17] 佛告阿難及韋提希。此想成已。次當更觀無量壽佛身相光明。阿難當知。無量壽佛身。如百千萬億夜摩天閻浮檀金色。佛身高六十萬億那由他恒河沙由旬。眉間白毫右旋宛轉如五須彌山。佛眼清淨如四大海水清白分明。身諸毛孔演出光明如須彌山。彼佛圓光如百億叁千大千世界。于圓光中。有百萬億那由他恒河沙化佛。一一化佛。亦有衆多無數化菩薩。以爲侍者。無量壽佛有八萬四千相。一一相中。各有八萬四千隨形好。一一好中複有八萬四千光明。一一光明遍照十方世界。念佛衆生攝取不舍。其光相好及與化佛。不可具說。但當憶想令心明見。見此事者。即見十方一切諸佛。以見諸佛故名念佛叁昧。作是觀者。名觀一切佛身。以觀佛身故亦見佛心。諸佛心者大慈悲是。以無緣慈攝諸衆生。作此觀者。舍身他世生諸佛前。得無生忍。是故智者應當系心谛觀無量壽佛。觀無量壽佛者。從一相好入。但觀眉間白毫極令明了。見眉間白毫相者。八萬四千相好自然當見。見無量壽佛者。即見十方無量諸佛。得見無量諸佛故。諸佛現前受記。是爲遍觀一切色想。名第九觀。作是觀者名爲正觀。若他觀者名爲邪觀。
10) contemplation of Avalokiteshvara
[18] The Buddha said to Ananda and Vaidehi, "After you have seen Amitayus clearly and distinctly, next visualize the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. His height is eighty kotis of nayutas of yojanas multiplied by the number of the sands of the Ganges. His body is the color of purple-gold, and on the top of his head is a mound surrounded by an aureole with a radius of a hundred thousand yojanas, in which there are five hundred transformed Buddhas. Each transformed Buddha resembles Shakyamuni, and is attended by five hundred transformed bodhisattvas and innumerable devas. In the light emanating from his entire body are seen the sentient beings of the five realms of Samsara in all their distinct physical forms. On his head he wears a heavenly crown made of Shakra-abhilagna-mani-gems, on which stands a transformed Buddha (Amitayus) measuring twenty-five yojanas in height.
The face of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is the color of gold from the Jambu River, while the tuft of hair between his eyebrows has the colors of the seven jewels, and from it issue forth eighty-four thousand different rays of light. In each of these rays dwell innumerable and uncountable hundreds of thousands of tr…
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