..续本文上一页 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] 佛告阿难及韦提希。此想成已。次当更观无量寿佛身相光明。阿难当知。无量寿佛身。如百千万亿夜摩天阎浮檀金色。佛身高六十万亿那由他恒河沙由旬。眉间白毫右旋宛转如五须弥山。佛眼清净如四大海水清白分明。身诸毛孔演出光明如须弥山。彼佛圆光如百亿三千大千世界。于圆光中。有百万亿那由他恒河沙化佛。一一化佛。亦有众多无数化菩萨。以为侍者。无量寿佛有八万四千相。一一相中。各有八万四千随形好。一一好中复有八万四千光明。一一光明遍照十方世界。念佛众生摄取不舍。其光相好及与化佛。不可具说。但当忆想令心明见。见此事者。即见十方一切诸佛。以见诸佛故名念佛三昧。作是观者。名观一切佛身。以观佛身故亦见佛心。诸佛心者大慈悲是。以无缘慈摄诸众生。作此观者。舍身他世生诸佛前。得无生忍。是故智者应当系心谛观无量寿佛。观无量寿佛者。从一相好入。但观眉间白毫极令明了。见眉间白毫相者。八万四千相好自然当见。见无量寿佛者。即见十方无量诸佛。得见无量诸佛故。诸佛现前受记。是为遍观一切色想。名第九观。作是观者名为正观。若他观者名为邪观。
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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