..續本文上一頁ing, and the spirit of aspiring for awakening, and the spirit of venturing towards awakening.

　　智者彌勒谕善財：覺心利益無限量。

　　16. Just as one perceives the difference between a person who yearns to travel and a traveler, so do the learned recognize the corresponding difference between those two.

　　略攝菩提心，當知有二種：願求菩提心、趣行菩提心。

　　17. Although the result of the spirit of aspiring for awakening is great within the cycle of existence, it is still not like the continual state of merit of the spirit of venturing.

　　願心于生死，雖生廣大果，猶不如行心，相續增福德。

　　18. From the time that one adopts that spirit with an irreversible attitude for the sake of liberating limitless sentient beings.

　　何時爲度盡，無邊衆有情，立志不退轉，受持此行心；

　　19. From that moment on, an uninterrupted stream of merit, equal to the sky, constantly arises even when one is asleep or distracted.

　　即自彼時起，縱眠或放逸，福德相續生，量多等虛空。

　　20. The Tathágata himself cogently asserted this in the Subahuprccha for the sake of beings who are inclined toward the lesser vehicle.

　　爲信小乘者，妙臂問經中，如來自說故；其益極應理。

　　21. A well-intentioned person who thinks, "I shall eliminate the headaches of sentient beings," bears immeasurable merit.

　　若僅思療愈：有情諸頭疾，具此饒益心，獲福無窮盡。

　　22. What then of a person who desires to remove the incomparable pain of every single being and endow them with immeasurable good qualities

　　況欲除有情，無量不安樂，乃至欲成就，有情無量德。

　　23. Who has even a mother or father with such altruism

　　 Would the gods, sages, or Brahmas have it

　　是父抑或母，誰具此心耶？是仙或欲天，梵天有此耶？

　　24. If those beings have never before had that wish for their own sake even in their dreams, how could they possibly have it for the sake of others

　　彼等爲自利，尚且未夢及，況爲他有情，生此饒益心？

　　25. How does this unprecedented and distinguished jewel, whose desire for the benefit of others does not arise in others even for their own self-interest, come into existence

　　他人爲自利，尚且未能發；生此珍貴心，稀有誠空前！

　　26. How can one measure the merit of the jewel of the mind, which is the seed of the worlds joy and is the remedy for the worlds suffering

　　珍貴菩提心，衆生安樂因，除苦妙甘霖，其福何能量？

　　27. If reverence for the Buddhas is exceeded merely by an altruistic intention, how much more so by striving for the complete happiness of all sentient beings

　　僅思利衆生，福勝供諸佛，何況勤精進，利樂諸有情。

　　28. Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy.

　　衆生欲除苦，奈何苦更增。愚人雖求樂，毀樂如滅仇。

　　29. He satisfies with all joys those who are starving for happiness and eliminates all the sorrows of those who are afflicted in many ways.

　　于諸乏樂者，多苦諸衆生，足以衆安樂，斷彼一切苦，

　　30. He dispels delusion. Where else is there such a saint

　　 Where else is there such a friend

　　 Where else is there such merit

　　更複盡其癡；甯有等此善？安得似此友？豈有如此福？

　　31. Even one who repays a kind deed is praised somewhat, so what should be said of a bodhisattva whose good deed is unsolicited

　　若人酬恩施，尚且應稱贊；何況未受托，菩薩自樂爲。

　　32. The world honors as virtuous one who makes a gift to a few people, even if it is merely a momentary and contemptuous donation of plain food and support for half a day.

　　偶備微劣食，嗟施少衆生，令得半日飽，人敬爲善士。

　　33. What then of one who forever bestows to countless sentient beings the fulfillment of all yearnings, which is inexhaustible until the end of beings as limitless as space

　　何況恒施與，無邊有情衆，善逝無上樂，滿彼一切願。

　　34. The Lord declared, "One who brings forth an impure thought in his heart against a benefactor, a child of the Jina, will dwell in hells for as many eons as there were impure thoughts.

　　博施諸佛子，若人生惡心，佛言彼墮獄，久如心數劫。

　　35. But if one”s mind is kindly inclined, one will bring forth an even greater fruit. Even when a greatly violent crime is committed against the children of the Jinas, their virtue spontaneously arises.

　　若人生淨信，得果較前增；佛子雖逢難，善增罪不生。

　　36. I pay homage to the bodies of those whom this precious jewel of the mind has arisen. I go for refuge to th…

《《入菩薩行》寂天著 The Bodhicaryavatara by Shantideva》全文未完，請進入下頁繼續閱讀…