禅宗三关

《禅宗三关–大日如来王尊佛》

“Zen’s Three Gates–SunGuru Buddha”

禅宗修不明，修什么都白修。禅宗是万法根基，修持分三关：1从凡入圣，是初关。2从圣归凡是重关。3不立凡圣是牢关。修行不是修结果，而是从自然来回归自然去的过程。初学往往被业力牵引，有一种已经明了牢关的幻觉，就像新生儿容易夭折一样。要能有明师依止，戒律对治，先保障自心不随业流转。然后到重关，在五浊恶世中，处处皆为道用。重关对依止信心已经达到巅峰，才能胜服自他业力。牢关证入中道，大菩提心与万物苍生合一，无修而修，无度而度。最后就是肢体语言：去做。学佛一年的人有一肚子真理要讲，学佛十年的人却无一字可说。

If Zen is not understood clearly, then whatever you practice is practiced in vain. Zen is the foundation of all dharmas, and its practice is divided into three gates: 1. From the ordinary to sacred, is the initial gate. 2. From sacred returning to the ordinary is the heavy gate. 3. Establishing neither the ordinary nor the sage is the firm gate. Spiritual practice is not the practice of a result, but the process of coming from nature and returning to nature. Beginners are often led by karma, having the illusion that they have already understood the firm gate, much like newborns are prone to death. They need a wise teacher to rely on, and the discipline of precepts to counteract this, first ensuring that one’s heart do not follow the flow of karma. Then comes the heavy gate, where in this defiled world, every place becomes a means to the path. At this heavy gate, faith in the reliance on the Dharma has reached its peak, enabling one to overcome the karmic forces of oneself and others. At the firm gate, one enters the Middle Way, the great Bodhicitta unites with all sentient beings, practicing without practicing, liberating without liberating. In the end, it is the bodily action: to go and do. A person who has studied Buddhism for a year has a bellyful of truths to speak of, while a person who has studied Buddhism for ten years has not a single word to say.

————大日如来王尊佛

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