..续本文上一页o nirvana the total
amount of living beings, every single
one numbered among the ranks of
living kind: those who were born
from eggs, those who were born
from a womb, those who were born
through warmth and moisture, those
who were born miraculously, those
who have a physical form, those
with none, those with conceptions,
those with none, and those with
neither conceptions nor no
conceptions. However many living
beings there are, in whatever realms
there may be, anyone at all labelled
with the name of "living being," all
these will I bring to total nirvana, to
the sphere beyond all grief, where
none of the parts of the suffering
person are left at all. Yet even if I
do manage to bring this limitless
number of living beings to total
nirvana, there will be no living
being at all who was brought to
their total nirvana.
Why is it so
Because, Subhuti, if a bodhisattva were to slip
into conceiving of someone as a living being, then we could
never call them a "bodhisattva."
Why is it so
Because, o Subhuti, if anyone were to slip into
conceiving of someone as a living being, or as something that
lives, or as a person, then we could never call them a
"bodhisattva."
And I say, o Subhuti, that a bodhisattva performs the act of
giving without staying in things. They perform the act of
giving without staying in any object at all. They perform the
act of giving without staying in things that you see. They
perform the act of giving without staying in sounds, and
without staying in smells, or tastes, or things that you touch,
or in objects of the thought.
O Subhuti, bodhisattvas perform the act of giving without
conceiving of any thing in any way as a sign. That is how
they give.
Why is it so
Think, o Subhuti, of the mountains of merit
collected by any bodhisattva who performs the act of giving
without staying. This merit, o Subhuti, is not something that
you could easily ever measure.
O Subhuti, what do you think
Would it be easy to measure
the space to the east of us
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conqueror, it would not.
The Conqueror said,
And just so, would it be easy to measure the space in any of the main
directions to the south of us, or to the west of us, or to the north of
us, or above us, or below us, or in any of the other directions from
us
Would it be easy to measure the space to any of the ten
directions from where we now stand
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
Conqueror, it would not.
Then the Conqueror said:
And just so, Subhuti, it would be no easy thing to measure the
mountains of merit collected by any bodhisattva who performs the
act of giving without staying.
Now Subhuti, what do you think
Should we consider
someone to be One Thus Gone, just because they possess the
totally exquisite marks that we find on a Buddha”s body
And Subhuti respectfully replied,
O Conquering One, we should not. We should not consider
anyone One Thus Gone just because they possess the totally
exquisite marks that we find on a Buddha”s body. And why
not
Because when the One Thus Gone himself described the
totally exquisite marks on a Buddha”s body, he stated at the
same time that they were impossible.
And then the Conqueror spoke to the junior monk Subhuti again, as
follows:
O Subhuti, what do you think
The totally exquisite marks on
a Buddha”s body are, as such, are deceptive. The totally
exquisite marks on a Buddha”s body are also not deceptive, but
only insofar as they do not exist. And so you should see the
One Thus Gone as having no marks, no marks at all.
Thus did the Conqueror speak. And then the junior monk Subhuti replied
to the Conquering One, as follows:
O Conqueror, what will happen in the future, in the days of
the last five hundred, when the holy Dharma is approaching
its final destruction
How could …
《金刚经(藏文版英译) Tibetan-English Version translated by Lobsang Chunzin, Michael Roach》全文未完，请进入下页继续阅读…