..續本文上一頁their minds: always diligently guard your mindfulness and introspection.

　　合掌誠勸請，欲護自心者：致力恒守護，正念與正知！

　　24. Just as a person smitten by disease is unfit for any work, so the mind lacking those two is not fit for any work.

　　身疾所困者，無力爲諸業；如是惑擾心，無力成善業。

　　25. What has been heard, pondered, and cultivated, like water in a cracked jar, does not remain in the memory of the mind that lacks introspection.

　　心無正知者，聞思修所得，如漏瓶中水，不複住正念。

　　26. Even many people who have faith and extraordinary perseverance become defiled by vices on account of the fault of lacking introspection.

　　縱信複多聞，數數勤精進，然因無正知，終染犯墮垢。

　　27. Even upon accumulating virtues, those who have been robbed by the thief of non-introspection, who come after the loss of mindfulness, enter miserable states of existence.

　　惑賊不正知，尾隨念失後，盜昔所聚福，令墮諸惡趣。

　　28. This band of thieves, the mental afflictions, looks for an entrance. Upon finding an entrance, it plunders and destroys life in fortunate realms of existence.

　　此群煩惱賊，尋隙欲打劫；得便奪善財，複毀善趣命。

　　29. Therefore, mindfulness should never be displaced from the gate of the mind. If it is gone, it should be reinstated while recalling the anguish of hell.

　　故終不稍縱，正念離意門，離則思諸患，複住于正念。

　　30. Mindfulness easily arises for those of good fortune because of their association with a spiritual mentor, and for those who are reverent on account of the instruction of a preceptor and because of their fear.

　　恒隨上師尊、畏墮聞法語，易令善信者，恒常生正念。

　　31. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have unobstructed vision in all directions. Everything is in their presence; and I stand in front of them.

　　佛及菩薩衆，無礙見一切；故吾諸言行，必現彼等前。

　　32. Meditating thus, one should remain filled with a sense of propriety, respect, and fear; and one should repeatedly think of the Buddhas in this way.

　　如是思惟已，則生慚敬畏；循此複極易，殷殷隨念佛。

　　33. When mindfulness stands guard at the gate of the mind, introspection arrives, and once it has come, it does not depart again.

　　爲護心意門，安住正念已，正知即隨臨，逝者亦複返。

　　34. First, I should establish this mind in such a manner, and I should always remain still as if without sense faculties like a piece of wood.

　　心意初生際，知其有過已，即時護正念，堅持住如樹。

　　35. One should never cast one”s gaze around without purpose. One should always direct one”s gaze downwards as if in meditation.

　　吾終不應當，無義散漫望；決志當恒常，垂眼微下看。

　　36. However, one should occasionally look around in order to relax the gaze; and if someone should appear in the field of ones vision, one should look up and give a greeting.

　　蘇息吾眼故，偶宜顧四方。若見有人至，正視道善來。

　　37. In order to detect danger on the road and so forth, one should look to the four directions for a moment. Pausing, one should look in the distance, looking behind only after turning around.

　　爲察道途險，四處頻觀望；憩時宜回顧，背面細檢索。

　　38. Upon looking forward or behind, one should go ahead or turn back. Likewise, in all situations one should proceed after realizing what needs to be done.

　　前後視察已，續行或折返。故于一切時，應視所需行。

　　39. Thinking, "The body should remain like this," and resorting to action again, one should periodically look afresh to see how the body is positioned.

　　欲身如是住，安妥威儀已，時時應細察；此身雲何住？

　　40. In this way the mad elephant of the mind should be watched diligently so that it is not loosed while tied to the great pillar of the thought of Dharma.

　　盡力遍觀察：此若狂象心，緊系念法柱，已栓未失否？

　　41. One should examine the mind in this way—where is mine engaged—so that it does not even for a moment leave the po, le of concentration.

　　精進習, 定者，刹那勿弛散；念念恒伺察：吾意何所之？

　　42. If one is unable to do so in the case of danger or a festive occasion, then one should be at ease. It is said that at the time of giving, ethical discipline may be held in abeyance.

　　危難喜慶時，心散亦應安；經說行施時，可舍微細戒。

　　43. Upon recognizing what needs to be undertaken, with a mind focused on that, one should attend to nothing else until one accomplishes it.

　　思已欲爲時，莫更思他事；心志應專一，且先成辦彼。

　　44. For in this way everything is well done. Otherwise neither will occur, …

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