..续本文上一页ing, and the spirit of aspiring for awakening, and the spirit of venturing towards awakening.

　　智者弥勒谕善财：觉心利益无限量。

　　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.

　　略摄菩提心，当知有二种：愿求菩提心、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.

　　愿心于生死，虽生广大果，犹不如行心，相续增福德。

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

　　何时为度尽，无边众有情，立志不退转，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.

　　即自彼时起，纵眠或放逸，福德相续生，量多等虚空。

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

　　为信小乘者，妙臂问经中，如来自说故；其益极应理。

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

　　若仅思疗愈：有情诸头疾，具此饶益心，获福无穷尽。

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

　　况欲除有情，无量不安乐，乃至欲成就，有情无量德。

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

　　 Would the gods, sages, or Brahmas have it

　　是父抑或母，谁具此心耶？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

　　彼等为自利，尚且未梦及，况为他有情，生此饶益心？

　　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

　　他人为自利，尚且未能发；生此珍贵心，稀有诚空前！

　　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

　　珍贵菩提心，众生安乐因，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

　　仅思利众生，福胜供诸佛，何况勤精进，利乐诸有情。

　　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.

　　众生欲除苦，奈何苦更增。愚人虽求乐，毁乐如灭仇。

　　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.

　　于诸乏乐者，多苦诸众生，足以众安乐，断彼一切苦，

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

　　 Where else is there such a friend

　　 Where else is there such merit

　　更复尽其痴；宁有等此善？安得似此友？岂有如此福？

　　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，尚且应称赞；何况未受托，菩萨自乐为。

　　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.

　　偶备微劣食，嗟施少众生，令得半日饱，人敬为善士。

　　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

　　何况恒施与，无边有情众，善逝无上乐，满彼一切愿。

　　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.

　　博施诸佛子，若人生恶心，佛言彼堕狱，久如心数劫。

　　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.

　　若人生净信，得果较前增；佛子虽逢难，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…

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