17.3.10-22 Buddha’s Will 佛遗教经
17.3.10 知足功德 Achievements and Virtues of Contentment
汝等僧尼！若欲脱诸苦恼，当观知足。知足之法，即是当乐安隐之处。知足之人，虽卧地上，犹为安乐；不知足者，虽处天堂，亦不称意。不知足者，虽富而贫；知足之人，虽贫而富。不知足者，常为五欲所牵，为知足者之所怜愍，是名知足。
Your kinds of monks and nuns, wanting to detach from bitter annoyances, should view contentment. The law of contentment is a “should be happy with” seclusive place. People with contentment, even though they lie on ground, also feel adaptably ease; people without contentment, even though they are in heaven, also feel disagreeable. People without contentment often lead by five desires (i.e., color-desire, sound-desire, perfume-desire, taste-desire, and bodily touch desire); they are pitiable by people with contentment, hence the name Contentment.
17.3.11 远离功德 Achievements and Virtues of Hike
汝等僧尼！欲求寂静无为（无为法，参见11.6.4节）安乐，当离愦闹，独处闲居，静处之人，帝释诸天，所共敬重，是故当舍己众他众，空闲独处，思灭苦本。若乐众者，则受众恼，譬如大树众鸟集之，则有枯折之患。世间缚者，没于众苦，譬如老象溺泥，不能自出，是名远离。
Your kinds of monks and nuns! Desiring to pursue quite none-as (none-as law; cf. section 11.6.4) leisurely life, should stay away from the noise, and live seclusively. People at quiet place, are respected by Seth etc., skies, therefore, should abandon self-crowds and other crowds, leisurely live alone, mean how to terminate bitter roots. People who laugh at crowds, bear crowds of annoyances, such as big tree where crowd birds gather, then there are worries of withered broken branch. Mundane beings are fettered up, submerged in crowds of bitterness, such like an old elephant stuck in mud, can not come out by himself, hence the name Hike.
17.3.12 精进功德 Achievements and Virtues of Diligently Effort
汝等僧尼！若勤精进，则事无难者，是故汝等当勤精进。譬如小水长流，则能穿石。若行者之心，数数懈废，譬如钻火，未热而息，虽欲得火，火难可得，是名精进。
Your kinds of monks and nuns, if diligently effort, then there is not difficult affair, therefore, your kinds should diligently effort. Such as a little water flows for a long time, it can wear stones. If migrator’s heart slack time by time, likes to get fire by drilling into wood. Before wood is heated enough, the driller has a brake; even though the driller desires fire, but fire is hard to get, hence the name Diligently Effort.
注17.2.12，插图16.4.2-1是古墨西哥文化中的精进渡画像。图中墨西哥在如“钻木取火”一样地努力划龙舟。插图17.3-18是墨西哥古画忍渡（如本文17.3.9至17.3.18）。
Annotation 17.2.12, Illustration 16.4.2-1 is a portrait of “Diligently Effort Ark” in ancient Mexican culture. In the picture, Mexico is rowing a dragon boat hard like "drilling wood to make fire". Fig.17.3-18 is a Mexican painting of the Countenance Ark (such as section 17.3.9 to 17.3.18 in this article).
17.3.13 守念功德 Achievements and Virtues of Hold Spell
汝等僧尼！求善知识；求善护助，无如不忘念。若有不忘念者，诸烦恼贼则不能入。是故汝等，常当摄念在心。若失念者，则失诸功德。若念力坚强，虽入五欲贼中，不为所害。譬如著铠入阵，则无所畏，是名不忘念。
Your kinds of monks and nuns, seek for benevolent knowledge; to pursue benevolent protection and help, is inferior to not forgetting spell. People who can hold spell, then those thieves of annoyances can not enter, therefore, your kinds should assimilate spells into heart constantly. If one loses his or her spell, then loses all achievements and virtues. If one's spell power is strong, one will not be harmed even if he or she enters the five desires of thieves. Such as an armored soldier enters a battlefield, is fearless. This is called not forgetting spell.
17.3.14 禅定功德 Achievements and Virtues of Meditation and Stillness
汝等僧尼！若摄心者，心则在定。心在定故，能知世间生灭法相，是故汝等，常当精勤修习诸定。若得定者，心则不散，譬如惜水之家，善治堤塘。行者亦尔，为智慧水故，善修禅定，令不漏失，是名为定。
Your kinds of monks and nuns! People who assimilate hearts, hearts are in stillness constantly. Because of hearts in stillness, one can know birth extinction etc. juristic phenomena of mundane world, therefore, your kinds etc. should diligently put efforts in practicing stillness-es. People who gain stillness, heart is not loose, such as family that cherish water, is good at managing pond dam. Migrators are also like that, for water of intelligence and gnosis, good at practicing meditation and stillness can have them not leaked lost, hence the name Stillness.
17.3.15 智慧功德 Achievements and Virtues of Intelligence and Gnosis
汝等僧尼！若有智慧，则无贪著。常自省察，不令有失，是则于我法中，能得解脱。若不尔者，既非道人，又非白衣，无所名也。实智慧者，则是度老病死海坚牢船也，亦是无明黑暗大明灯也，一切病者之良药也，伐烦恼树之利斧也。是故汝等，当以闻思修慧而自增益。若人有智慧之照，虽是肉眼，而是明见人也，是名智慧。
Your kinds of monks and nuns! If having intelligence and gnosis, then not greedily lingering; often self check, not let it be, if so, you can unfetter in “I law”. If not, neither path walker nor white collar, can not be named. Very factual intelligence and gnosis, then are solid Ark to ferry over older illness and death sea, also are great light in non-light (i.e., ignorant) darkness, are good medicine for all illnesses, sharp ax for chopping down annoyance trees. Therefore, your kinds etc. should by heard, meant, and cultivated gnosis to self-benefit. If people who is with illumination of intelligence and gnosis, even though only with flesh eye, also are people with bright vision, hence the name Intelligence Gnosis.
17.3.16
汝等僧尼！若种种戏论，其心则乱，虽复出家，犹未得脱。是故比丘，当急舍离乱心戏论。若汝欲得寂灭乐者，唯当善灭戏论之患，是名不戏论。
Your kinds of monks and nuns! If meet kinds of gamely theses, hearts are disturbed into chaos, even though come out household life again, can not gain liberation. Therefore, your kinds of monks and nuns, should speedily leave muddle heart gamely theses. If you desire to gain silent extinctive laugh, only should be good at terminating faults of gamely theses, hence the name No Gamely Theses.
17.3.17
汝等僧尼！于诸功德，常当一心，舍诸放逸，如离怨贼。大悲世尊，所说利益，皆已究竟。汝等但当勤而行之。若于山间，若空泽中，若在树下，闲处静室，念所受法，勿令忘失，常当自勉，精进修之，无为空死，后致有悔。我如良医！知病说药，服与不服，非医咎也。又如善导，导人善道，闻之不行，非导过也。
Your kinds of monks and nuns! Should always be one heart with achievements and virtues, abandon laxness like leaving resentful thieves. Great Sorrowful Social Honor said benefits, all have been finalized. Your kinds should only diligently practice it. Such as in the mountains, in empty swamp, under a tree, or in a quiet room, recite what laws you have received, have them not forgotten, constantly encourage yourself, diligently put efforts to practice it, do not be death in vain, so that, regret later. I am like a good doctor, knowing illness then speaking of prescriptions; take the medication or not, that is not doctor’s fault. And more, I am like a guide, guide people to the benevolent path; hearers hear it, not walk on it, that is not guide’s fault.
17.3.18 毕竟功德 Achievements and Virtues of Finalization
汝等若于苦等四谛有所疑者，可疾问之，毋得怀疑，不求决也。尔时世尊，如是三唱，人无问者，所以者何？众无疑故。时桫鲁-法索椤，观察众心，而白佛言：“世尊！月可令热，日可令冷，佛说四谛，不可令异。佛说苦谛实苦，不可令乐。集真是因，更无异因，苦若灭者，即是因灭。因灭故果灭，灭苦之道，实是真道。更无余道。世尊！是诸比丘，于四谛中，决定无疑。”
If you etc. whoever has doubt about Bitter, Aggregate, Salvation, and Path, the Four Victorious Cruxes, ask quickly, should not bosom doubt, not pursue finalization. At that time, Social Honor thus asked three times, nobody asked, why did that? Because crowds have no suspicion. At that time, Sal Fasullo (the manager of the ritual) investigated hearts of crowds and reported to Buddha: “Social Honor! Moon may turn into hot; sun may turn into cold. Four Victorious Cruxes spoken by Buddha, shall not be different. Buddha said that Bitter Crux is factual bitterness, shall not make it laugh. Aggregate Crux is reason of Bitter, no more mutant cause. If bitter is terminated, that is termination on cause. The reason is terminated, therefore fruit fades, the Path of terminating bitterness is factual Path, no more extra path. Social Honor! We monks and nuns resolutely have no doubt about the Four Victorious Cruxes.”
17.3.19
“于此众中，所作未办者，见佛灭度，当有悲感。若有初入法者，闻佛所说，即皆得度。譬如夜见电光，即得见道。若所作已办，已度苦海者，但作是念，‘世尊灭度，一何疾哉！’”
“Among the crowds, there are what are doing have not done yet, seeing Buddha’s terminally ferry, should have sorrow. If there are new juristic entrants, heard what Buddha said, immediately all get ferried, such as appearance of lightning in night, instantly sees their path. Those what should do have been done, already ferried over the bitter sea, only make the spell, ‘Social Honor terminally ferry, what a rush!’”
17.3.20
桫鲁-法索椤虽说此语，众中皆悉了达四圣谛义。世尊欲令此诸大众皆得坚固，以大悲心，复为众说；“汝等比丘，勿怀悲恼，若我住世一劫，会亦当灭。会而不离，终不可得。自利利他，法皆具足。若我久住，更无所益。应可度者，若天上人间，皆悉已度。其未度者，皆亦已作得度因缘。自今以后，我诸弟子，展转行之，则是如来法身，常在而不灭也。是故当知，世皆无常，会必有离，勿怀忧恼，世相如是。当勤精进，早求解脱；以智慧明，灭诸痴暗。”
Even though Sal Fasullo only spoke of these words, among crowds, all understood the significances of the Four Victorious Cruxes completely. Social Honor desired to make all people confident, with great sorrowful heart, spoke again: “Your kinds of monks and nuns! Do not bosom sorrowful annoyances, even if I dwell on the world one catastrophe more, meeting still will extinguish, meeting without separation can not be gained at last. Self-benefit and benefit-others, laws have them fully. Even if I dwell longer, no further benefit to. Should be ferried, such skies above, among humans, all have been ferried; those have not been ferried, all have been projected causes or aggregative factors to be ferried. From now on, all my disciples develop and practice it, then that is Tathagata’s juristic body permanently dwells, never perishes. Therefore, you should know that all in the world are impermanent, union has separation, do not bosom gloomily annoyances, mundane phenomena are such like! Should diligently advance, strive to unfetter early, by light of intelligence and gnosis to terminate darkness of ignorance.”
17.3.21
“世实危脆、无坚牢者，我今得灭，如除恶病。此是应舍之身，罪恶之物，假名为身，没在老病生死大海，何有智者，得除灭之，如杀怨贼，而不欢喜。”
“The world is fragile factually, nobody is a prisoner in an indestructible; I will perish today, like a ferocious disease is removed. The body should be abandoned, a ferocious evil thing, fictitiously named as body, submerged in the sea of old, illness, birth, and death, whoever wise shall remove, terminate it, like killing a resentful thief, not rejoice!”
17.3.22
“汝等僧尼！常当一心，勤求出道。一切世间动不动法，皆是败坏不安之相。汝等且止，勿得复语，时将欲过，我欲灭度，是我最后之所教诲。”
“Your kinds of monks and nuns! Should constantly with one heart, diligently seek ousting path. All mundane movable and immovable laws, all are ruin phenomena of disquietudes! Your kinds stop! Don’t utter a word again! Time passes over desire, I desire terminally ferry, this is my last teaching.”
Posted Mar 26, 2024, 12:22 AM UTC