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善逝諸力皆圓滿，功德莊嚴現世間，一切眾生悉調伏，此法勇力能明證。佛昔修治大悲海，其心念念等世間，是故神通無有邊，增益精氣能觀見。
「善逝」，這也是佛十號之—。「諸力」，就是以前所講的佛的十力。「皆圓滿」，佛把這一切的力都修到圓滿上。「功德莊嚴現世間」，佛是一切功德所莊嚴而成就的，出現在這個有情世間。「一切眾生悉調伏」，這個娑婆世界的剛強眾生難調難服，你給他說善法，耳提面命，用種種的權巧方便法門給他說，他也不相信。要遇到惡緣了，不乾淨的、邪淫的這種的緣，他就趨之若狂，都往那地方跑，像發了狂似的，就像昨天晚間，你們去那個狂會的人所講那個野蠻的話一樣的。不容易調伏，可是佛他也能把他調伏了；不容易教化的，也能教化了，所以叫悉調伏。
「此法勇力能明證」，這種的解脫門是那個色力勇健主稼神，他所明白而能證得的解脫門。「佛昔修治大悲海」，佛在往昔用功修行這個大慈悲的法門。「其心念念等世間」，他這個心，每一念，每一念，都是想要救度眾生，想要令眾生離苦得樂。「是故神通無有邊」，想要教化剛強難調難伏的眾生，必須要有種種的神通，種種的方便法門，來教化眾生，所以佛的神通是沒有邊的。「增益精氣能觀見」，這個解脫門是增益精氣主稼神，他所能明瞭的，所能知道的。
你有什麼問題？他要想學，叫他跟著他們三步一拜，叫他到這兒來研究來。
佛遍世間常現前，一切方便無空過，悉淨眾生諸惑惱，此普生神之解脫。
「佛遍世間常現前」，佛是無在無不在的，遍滿一切處的，所以說佛遍世間。眾生為什麼不能個個都見佛呢？佛既然遍滿世間，眾生應該都見著啊！可是眾生就有這諸惑惱遮蓋著。因為有這個惑遮蓋著，猶如雲霧遮蓋太陽一樣。太陽本來是有的，但是被雲霧所遮蓋了，就看不見了。所以佛雖然遍一切處，眾生被自己的無明惑業苦所遮障著，見不著佛，可是佛常常現於眾生的前邊。眾生雖然不見佛，可是佛常見眾生。「一切方便無空過」，這個佛，用種種的方便來教化眾生，令眾生發菩提心，成就佛果。
所以才說「悉淨眾生諸惑惱」，把眾生的雲霧給撥開現出太陽來。這諸惑惱一消了，智慧就現前了。「此普生神之解脫」，這種的境界是這個普生根果主稼神，他所明白的一種解脫門。
佛是世間大智海，放淨光明無不遍，廣大信解悉從生，如是嚴髻能明入。
佛是世界上一個最明白，最有智慧的眾生。佛是眾生裡邊一個覺悟者，也就是眾生裡邊一個最明白的，無所不知，無所不見，無所不明的一個大覺者，所以說「佛是世間大智海」。佛是大智海；法也是大智海；僧也是大智海。佛法僧是世間大智慧海，也是世間一個無盡無盡明燈，所以說「放淨光明無不遍」。放淨光明，佛是大智慧海，所以就放大智慧的清淨光明，沒有一個地方不周遍。佛放這個淨光照一切眾生的這個心水。佛這個光照到眾生的心裏，令眾生發菩提心，成無上道。
「廣大信解悉從生」，佛放清淨智慧光明，普照眾生的心，所以眾生的廣大信解心，就生出來了。悉從生，從這兒就生出這個廣大信解的心。
這種信是廣大的，這種解也是廣大的。不可思議的信，不可思議的解，從得到佛的智慧光明而生出來。「如是嚴髻能明入」，像上邊所說這種的境界，這種的道理，是這個妙嚴環髻主稼神，他能明白而領悟到的這種解脫門。
果護，你講下面四句。
如來觀世起慈心，為利眾生而出現，
示彼恬怡最勝道，此淨華神之解脫。
（果護：「如來」，有的人說如來佛。如來就是佛；佛就是如來。如來是本師釋迦牟尼佛。釋迦牟尼佛「觀世起慈心」，他觀這個世間所有眾生那麼樣子苦得不得了。他們每一天所行所作就是苦。他對眾生有這個慈悲心，要令他們離苦得樂。
「為利眾生而出現」，佛因為要利益一切眾生，給他們好機會得到究竟快樂，所以佛入世間而出現。
「示彼恬怡最勝道」，佛看眾生苦痛的行為有八萬四千，所以要令他們乘這個恬怡最勝的道路，把自己的心，令它寂靜安詳，所以示彼恬怡最勝道，就是這個最勝的道路一一淨化三界佛，淨化出家僧，他所明白的佛境界，他成佛明白的一部份，他的解脫門。）
問問他們大家覺得他講的是對？不對？全對？ Does everybody know it？ Know its problems？恬字怎麼講？果逸？（果逸：……）那你這「字典」的法師名實不相副？怡是和眾生所作，得到開悟。恬是恬寂；怡就是怡悅，內裏頭有寂靜。這個恬也有的時候當恬淡講。怡悅，歡喜的樣子，也是沒有什麼煩惱的樣子。好了，他們大家不反對，我也不反對。
善逝所修清淨行，菩提樹下具宣說，如是教化滿十方，此妙香神能聽受。
「善逝」，乃是佛十號之—。「所修清淨行」，也就是佛在往昔所修的這個清淨的行門。這個清淨的行門，就是諸惡遠離，眾善奉行；也就是遠離一切的惡法，修治一切的善法。一切的惡法就是染污法；一切的善法就是清淨法。
「菩提樹下具宣說」，佛在菩提樹下，夜睹明星而悟道。三嘆奇哉，說一切眾生皆有如來智慧德相，但以妄想執著不能證得，可見這個妄想和執著是修道的一個大障礙物。如果沒有妄想，沒有執著，很快也就證得無上正等正覺。為什麼我們沒有證得無上正等正覺？也就因為這個執著心太大了，妄想心太多了。佛在菩提樹下成道之後，宣說《大華嚴經》。這時候二乘的人有眼不見盧舍那，有耳不聞圓頓教。可是佛說這個大華嚴法，以及一切經藏，像這種的教法，教化十方一切眾生。所以說是「如是教化滿十方」，那麼十方眾生也都得度。「此妙香神能聽受」，這是這個成就妙香主稼神，他所領悟到的這個解脫門，他所聽受的這種的解脫法門。
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Sutra:
The Well-Gone One has perfected all the powers.
Adorned with meritorious virtues, he appears in the world.
All living beings are completely tamed and subdued.
This Dharma is what Courageous Strength
has understood and attained.
The Buddha in the past cultivated an ocean of great compassion,
His thoughts ever mindful of those in the world.
Thus his spiritual penetrations know no bounds.
Increasing Essence and Energy is able to see this.
Commentary:
The Well-Gone One has perfected all the powers. "Well-Gone One" is one of the ten titles of the Buddha. All the powers refers to the Buddha's Ten Powers, mentioned before. The Buddha has cultivated all the powers to perfection.
Adorned with meritorious virtues, he appears in the world. Adorned with all the meritorious virtues he has accomplished, the Buddha appears in the world of sentient beings.
All living beings are completely tamed and
subdued. The obstinate beings of the World are difficult to tame and subdue. You may try to teach them wholesome Dharmas, using all kinds of expedient skill-in-means to teach them, whether speaking to them directly or hinting indirectly, yet they won't believe you. When they encounter unwholesome, unclean, perverse conditions, they pursue them like crazy. It's like last night when you went to listen to the wild talk of that person with crazy wisdom. Living beings may be hard to subdue, yet the Buddha can subduethem. They may be hard to teach, but the Buddha manages to teach them.
This Dharma, this liberation door,
is what the Crop-Ruling Spirit named
Courageous and Healthy Physical
Strength has understood and attained. The Buddha in the past cultivated an ocean of great compassion. The Buddha applied effort in the cultivation of the Dharma door of great kindness and compassion.
His thoughts ever mindful of those in the world. His every thought is to save beings from suffering and cause them to attain happiness.
Thus his spiritual penetrations know no bounds. In order to teach and transform obstinate and difficult living beings, one must possess all kinds of spiritual powers and expedient means. Thus the Buddha's spiritual penetrations are boundless.
Increasing Essence and Energy is able to see this. This kind of state and liberation door is what the Crop-Ruling Spirit Increasing Essence and Energy is able to understand.
Are there any questions?
[Question inaudible]. If he wants to learn, tell him to follow them in doing "Three Steps One Bow." Tell him to come here and investigate with us.
Sutra:
The Buddha constantly manifests everywhere in the world.
None of his expedient devices are applied in vain.
He entirely purifies living beings' delusions and afflictions.
This is the liberation of the Spirit Universally Producing.
Commentary:
The Buddha constantly manifests everywhere in the world. The Buddha is not present anywhere, yet there is nowhere he is not present. The Buddha pervades all places in the world. Why can't all living beings see the Buddha? If the Buddha is everywhere in the world, beings should all be able to see him. But living beings are covered over by their delusions and afflictions. Delusions cover them just as clouds cover the sun. Although the sun is there, the clouds block it from view. Likewise, although the Buddha is present everywhere, living beings cannot see him because they are obstructed by their own ignorance, delusions, karma, and suffering. Even so, the Buddha constantly appears before living beings. Although beings cannot see him, the Buddha can always see them.
None of his expedient devices are applied in vain. The Buddha uses all manner of expedient methods to teach and transform living beings, leading them to bring forth the resolve for Bodhi and accomplish Buddhahood.
He entirely purifies living beings' delusions and afflictions. The Buddha dispels the clouds covering living beings, so that the sun can shine forth. When all delusions and afflictions are gone, wisdom comes forth.
This is the liberation of the Spirit Universally Producing. This kind of state is the liberation door understood by the Crop-Ruling Spirit named Universally Producing Roots and Fruits.
Sutra:
The Buddha is an ocean of great wisdom in the world,
Emitting pure radiance that reaches all places,
Causing all to produce tremendous faith and understanding.
Adorned Cowl was able to understand and enter this.
Commentary:
The Buddha is an ocean of great wisdom in the world. The Buddha is the wisest and most intelligent living being in the world. The Buddha is an enlightened one among living beings. He possesses the highest understanding. There is nothing he does not know or understand. He is the Greatly Enlightened One. Not only is the Buddha an ocean of great wisdom, the Dharma is also an ocean of great wisdom, and so is the Sangha. The Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha are all oceans of great wisdom in the world. They are also lamps of inexhaustible brightness for the world.
So the text says: Emitting pure radiance that reaches all places. The Buddha, an ocean of great wisdom, emits the pure light of great wisdom which pervades all places. The Buddha emits a pure light that shines upon the waters of all living beings' minds. The Buddha's light shines into beings" hearts, causing them to bring forth the resolve for Bodhi and realize the unsurpassed Way.
The pure wisdom light emitted by the Buddha universally shines upon living beings' hearts,
causing them all to produce tremendous, vast minds of
faith and understanding. Beings who have attained the Buddha's wisdom light give rise to this kind of vast and inconceivable faith and understanding.
Adorned Cowl was able to understand and enter this. This kind of state and principle, this kind of liberation door, is what the Crop-Ruling Spirit named Wonderfully Adorned Circular Cowl has awakened to and understood.
Sutra:
The Thus Come One beholds the world
and gives rise to compassion.
Appearing for the sake of bringing benefit to living beings,
He shows them the supreme path of tranquility and bliss.
This is the liberation of the Spirit Pure Flowers.
Commentary:
Guo Hu, you explain the next four lines of verse.
[Guo Hu: The Thus Come One beholds the world and gives rise to compassion. Some people talk about Thus Come One Buddha. Actually, the Thus Come One is just the Buddha, and the Buddha is just the Thus Come One. Here, the Thus Come One refers to Shakyamuni Buddha. Seeing how miserable the living beings of the world were, experiencing suffering in everything they do, he brought forth a heart of compassion and wished to relieve their suffering and give them happiness.
Appearing for the sake of bringing benefit to living beings and giving them the opportunity to obtain ultimate happiness, the Buddha comes into the world.
He shows them the supreme path of tranquility and bliss. The Buddha sees that living beings have 84,000 kinds of suffering, so he leads them onto the supreme path of tranquility and bliss. He teaches them how to make their minds serene and peaceful. This sublime path is one by which the Buddhas are brought to purity in the Triple Realm, and by which the Sangha—those who have left the home-life—are transformed to purity.
This is the liberation of the Spirit Pure Flowers. This is the state of the Buddha that he understands. This is his liberation door.]
Ask everyone whether his explanation was correct. Is it completely correct? Does everyone know its problems? How do you explain the word 'tranquility'? [Guo Yi: ...] Guo Yi, you aren't living up to your name as the 'Dictionary Dharma Master.' Tranquility means that what living beings do leads them to enlightenment. Tranquility refers to being still and quiet inside. It sometimes means plain and bland. Bliss refers to happiness and the absence of affliction. Alright, if no one else has any objections, I don't have any, either.
Sutra:
The pure practices cultivated by the Well-Gone One
He fully proclaimed from beneath the Bodhi tree.
Such teaching and transforming filled the ten directions.
The Spirit Wonderful Fragrance was able
to hear and accept this.
Commentary:
The pure practices cultivated by the Well-Gone One. Well-Gone One is another one of the titles of the Buddha. The pure practices cultivated by the Buddha in the past involved staying away from all evil and carrying out all good deeds. In other words, he stayed away from all unwholesome dharmas and cultivated all wholesome dharmas. All unwholesome dharmas are defiled dharmas, and all wholesome dharmas are pure dharmas.
He fully proclaimed from beneath the Bodhi tree. The Buddha sat beneath the Bodhi tree, saw a star one night and awakened to the Way. Thereupon he exclaimed, "How strange! All living beings possess the wisdom and virtuous characteristics of the Thus Come One. It is only because of false thinking and attachments that they cannot realize them." It is clear from this that false thinking and attachments are great obstacles to the cultivation of the Way. If we had no false thinking or attachments, we would very quickly realize unsurpassed, proper and equal right enlightenment. Why haven't we realized it yet? Just because our attachments are too great, and our false thoughts are too numerous.
After the Buddha attained the Way beneath the Bodhi tree, he proclaimed the Great Flower Adornment Sutra, but those of the Two Vehicles were such that:
They had eyes, but could not see Nishyanda Buddha.
They had ears, but could not hear the Perfect Sudden Teaching.
The Buddha spoke the Great Flower Adornment Dharma and all the other Sutras, using such teachings to teach and transform all the living beings throughout the ten directions. Thus the text says:
Such teaching and transforming filled the ten directions. The living beings of the ten directions were all taken across.
The Spirit Wonderful Fragrance was able to hear and accept this. The Crop-Ruling Spirit named Accomplishing Wonderful Fragrance was able to gain insight into this liberation door. He heard and was able to accept this Dharma door of liberation.
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