目录 Catalog：1. 正顺解脱 Correct Sequential Liberation；2. 慧解脱 Gnostic Liberation；3. 鉴别欲天趣人 Discerning the Desiring Sky Person；4. 四王天 Four-King Sky；5.  三十三天 Thirty-Three Sky；6. 时分天 Hour Minute Sky；7. 知足天 Contentment Sky；8. 自化天 Self-Converted Sky；9. 他化天 It Converted Sky

天义为清净，深奥的知识，上帝，宗教。宗教义为祖宗的教诲，以上帝造人的故事为载体。例如第14.2节《鹿乘》讲述雷音造出亚当（阿尔维斯））和夏娃（紫鹭德）的故事，就是一个宗教。再例如14.3《羊乘》就讲述宙斯造出金童（阿波罗）和玉女（雅典娜）的故事，就是另一个宗教。图12.1.6-15右端的线绳代表上帝造人故事的主题线索，代表一个宗教。欲天义为信仰神佛或追求真理的人。

The word Sky means quietness, profound knowledge, God, and religion. Religion refers to the ancestral teachings, using the story of God creating man as its vehicle. For example, Section 14.2, "Deer Vehicle," tells the story of Thor creating Adam (Alviss) and Eve (Thrud), which is a religion. Another example is Section 14.3, "Goat Vehicle," which tells the story of Zeus creating the golden boy (Apollo) and the jade girl (Athena), which is another religion. The string on the right end of Figure 12.1.6-15 represents the thematic thread of the story of God creating man and represents a religion. The meaning of "Desire Sky" refers to those who believe in God or Buddha or pursue truth.

1. 正顺解脱 Correct Sequential Liberation

受是所取；想是能取。众生日夜操劳，只做业，不消业，日积月累成为了两座天门山（如图15），即受蕴和想蕴）。受蕴和想蕴驱使众生日夜操劳，流转于六趣之中，不得休息，同时这两座山仍然在继续生长，怎么办？

Acceptance is what is fetched; Think is the capable of fetch. Sentient beings toil day and night, creating karma but not eliminating it. Over time, this accumulates into two sky door mountains (as shown in Figure 15), namely Acceptance Node and Think Node. Driven by the nodes of Acceptance and Think, sentient beings toil day and night, transmigrating through the Six Interests without rest. Meanwhile, these two sky door mountains continue to grow. What can be done?

业义为身口意的行为习惯，可以由图40的人中运动来表示。于是就有了人中是天门山的根的说法。正顺解脱是谨守根门，如图41。图41是墨西哥的天道轮回的守护女神寇特鹠鸺（Coatlicue）；她锁死了她自己的人中穴，表示她谨守十戒（参见12.1节）。这样少做坏事，天门山就不生长了，以至于萎缩了。天门山被移除了，就是升天的路障被清除了。

Karma means habits of bodily, oral, and intent actions, which can be represented by the movement of the philtrum as shown in Figure 40. This gives rise to the notion that the philtrum is the root of sky door mountains.

Correct Sequential Liberation is achieved by guarding the root-door, as shown in Figure 41. Figure 41 depicts Coatlicue, the guardian goddess of Mexican godly cycle; she has locked her own philtrum, signifying her strict observance of the Ten Precepts (see Section 12.1). By thus minimizing evil deeds, the two Sky Door Mountains ceases to grow and eventually withers away. The removal of Sky Door Mountains clears the obstacle to ascension.

山根亦作祖窍（如图17，35，36，42，43，44，45），是祖宗们进出圣庙的门。头是圣庙是西方人的说法，例如说英语的人仍然把额头两边的太阳穴称作庙（Temple）。这样读者就看懂了图39，人中（如图40）的运动是上帝在呼吸。图35下部表示，谨守根门是在为祖宗们守门。

The mountain-root is also known as Ancestral Cave (as shown in Figures 17, 35, 36, 42, 43, 44, 45), serving as the gateway through which ancestors enter and exit the sacred temple.

 “Head is sacred temple” originates from Western people; for instance, English speakers still refer either side of the forehead as “temple.” Thus, the reader can understand Figure 39, where the movement of the philtrum (see fig. 40) represents God breathing. The lower part of Figure 35 indicates that guarding the root gate is guarding the gate for one's ancestors.

2. 慧解脱 Gnostic Liberation

修习者在懂得了四胜谛之后，帝释天（即转移身见，参见10.4.4.1.4 《根本烦恼》）就死了，修习者就成为了竹马天（如图13）了，就已经是圣人了。这是慧的作用。竹马天的梵语是补特伽罗，义为习气疙瘩，欧洲人称为竹马。

After the practitioner understands the Four Victorious Cruxes, Seth (i.e., translocating body view, see 10.4.4.1.4 Fundamental Annoyances) dies, and the practitioner becomes a Hobbyhorse Sky (as shown in Figure 13), thereby becoming a sage. This is the effect of gnosis. The Sanskrit word for Hobbyhorse is Pudgala, meaning chunks of habits; Europeans call it Hobbyhorse.

3. 鉴别欲天趣人 Discerning the Desiring Sky Person

欲天趣，相当于道谛（参见第15章）里的一地至于七地的菩萨，包括六位天，分别是四王天，三十三天，时分天，知足天，化乐天，和他化天。若论福德，六欲天与诸天为一趣，而饮食、男女、睡眠三事，则与前五趣相同。故论六趣，则六欲天为天趣；论三界，则属欲界。

The Desire Sky interests are equivalent to the Bodhisattvas from the first to the seventh land in the Path Crux (see Chapter 15), including six skies: the Four Kings Sky, the Thirty-Three Sky, the Hour Minute Sky, the Contentment Sky, the Self-Converted Sky, and the It Converted Sky. In terms of merit and virtue, the Six Desire Skies are in the same category as the other skies, while the three affairs of food, sex, and sleep are the same as the previous five interests. Therefore, in terms of the six interests, the Six Desire Skies are sky interest; in terms of the three boundaries, they belong to the Desire Boundary.

此约境、心、和事来辨别欲天趣。

（一）对心境增上方面，普于顺境、逆境和不顺不逆境中守护身、口、意三业。

（二）从心的方面来说，做善事，淳至猛利。

（三）从事而言，常作善事，但不甚广大，不甚久远。

以要言之，虽属十善道业，犹属散善，故为欲天趣因。

Here aggregating environment heart and affair to identify the desire sky interest.

First, in respect of escalation to environment, generally one can protect bodily karma, oral karma, and intentional karma in enjoyable, adverse, and neither enjoyable nor adverse environment.

Second, in the respect of heart, one can do benevolences purely, vigorously.

Third, in the respect of affair, always doing benevolent affairs, but not very vastly and not very long.

Generally, even though those deeds belong to ten benevolent path karmas, still belong to scattered benevolences, and are therefore the cause of desire sky interest.

4. 四王天 Four-King Sky

四王天（参见插图12.1.6-15）即护世四大天王和他们的眷属。东方持国天王，红色，统领净业众，主宰东胜身洲。北方多闻天王，黑色，统领所知众，主宰北俱颅洲。西方的广目天王，白色，统领龙凤众，主宰西牛惑洲。南方增长天王，蓝色，统领烦恼众，主宰南方的瞻部洲。

四王天皆是上品十善所感，或是不杀戒增上功德所感，或是一日一夜斋戒之力所感。身长250肘。衣广中500肘，上下各250肘，重4根羽毛。此天的寿命一千岁，然亦有中夭者。死时五衰相现，甚大苦恼。性生活如人世。

The Four Kings Skies (see fig. 13.1-15) are mundane world protectors and their dependents. Eastern King namely Nation-Holder, red in color, leads karmic crowds, rules over the eastern Victorious Body Continent. Northern King namely Heard-More, black in color, leads crowds of knows, rules over the northern Skull-Occupant continent. Western King namely Broad-Eye, white in color, leads crowds of dragons and phoenixes, rules over western Cow-Muddle continent. Southern King namely Growth, blue in color, leads crowds of annoyances and nightmares, rules over southern Admiring-Subordinates continent.

The four-king skies are all the result of the ten benevolences of the upper grade, or due to escalatory fortune and virtue of not killing, or due to the power of the one-day and one-night fasts. Their body length is 250 cubits, the clothes are 500 cubits wide to the middle and 250 cubits at the top and bottom, weighs 4 feathers. The lifespan of the skies is 1,000 years, but there are also those who die young. When they die, five types of deteriorating phenomena manifest, a great deal of annoyances. Sexual life is like the human world.

以中华文化为例，这四位护世天王分别是东海龙王熬忖，号红谛，尧皇；北方之神黄帝大禹；西方之神玉皇大帝，号青帝；和南海龙王熬钦。

四王天牌坊上的四件法宝（如图15），从左向右第一件是个螺壳，代表嫘祖，号顺皇。第二件法宝是个秘诀：众生无边誓愿度，烦恼无尽誓愿断，法门无量誓愿学，佛道无上誓愿成。第三件法宝是个燧火石，代表燧人氏，玉皇大帝。第四件法宝是根绳子，代表女娲造（参见14.5节）人的主题线索。

Taking Chinese culture as an example, these four guardian deities are: Dragon King of the East Sea, Aocun, fame Red Creator, White-king Yao; God of the North, Yellow Creator Big Yu; God of the West, Turquoise White-king Great Creator, fame Turquoise Creator; Dragon King of the South Sea, Aoqin.

The four juristic treasures on the Four-king Sky archway (as shown in Figure 15) are as follows: the first one from left to right is a conch shell, representing Lei Ancestor, also known as White-king Shun. The second treasure is a secret password: "Sentient beings are edgeless; I vow I ferry them all! Annoyances are endless; I vow I sever them all! Juristic doors are limitless; I vow I study them all! Buddha’s path is non-upper; I vow I endeavour to succeed!” The third juristic artifact is a flint, representing Flint man, Turquoise White-king Great Creator. The fourth juristic artifact is a rope, representing the theme of Nuwa creating humans (see section 14.5).

5. 三十三天 Thirty-Three Sky

三十三天，梵语忉利，由此天有三十三天故，亦是上品十善所感，或是不杀不盗两戒增上功德所感，或是一日一夜斋力所感。身长，除帝释天身长一千肘外，此诸天身长六百肘。衣广中一千二百肘，上下各六百肘，重2根羽毛。此诸天以拥抱为阴阳之事。寿两千岁，亦有中夭并五衰相，与前天同，后诸欲天亦皆准知。

Thirty-Three Sky, Sanskrit Tāvatiṃsa, because the sky has 33 skies, is also results of the ten benevolences of the upper grade, or do not kill and do not steal the two precepts’ escalatory fortune and virtue or inspired by a day and a night of fasting power. In terms of body length, except for Seth who is 1000 cubits high, the other skies are 600 cubits. Cloths are 1,200 cubits around to center, 600 cubits above and below, and weighs 2 feathers. These skies regard hugging as sexual affairs. With a lifespan of 2,000 years, but there are also premature deaths; and when they die, showing five signs of deteriorations. Those are the same as in the previous sky, and all the later desire-skies can be known in this way.

三十三天的中央是善法堂天，帝释天王所居；其东西南北四方各有八天。帝释全名帝释恒因（如插图12.1.6-14），中国佛教称其为转移身见（参见10.4.4.1.4.1节），梵语萨迦耶，圣经中称其为塞斯，古德语爱色（Æsir），墨西哥纳瓦特语教称其为提拉考安，义为我们都是它的奴隶。又，善法堂天上另有一天名作竹马，梵语为补特伽罗，义为习气疙瘩。

The center of the 33 skies is the “benevolent juristic hall sky”, where Imperial King Seth resides; there are eight heavens in each of the four directions, east, north, west, and south. Seth's full name is “Seth, the eternal reason”, which is known in Chinese Buddhism as “translocation body view” (see section 10.4.4.1.4.1), in Sanskrit as Satkaya, and in Mexican Nahuatl as Titlacauan, which means that we are all its slaves. And above the Benevolent Juristic Hall Sky, there is another sky called Hobbyhorse, which is the Sanskrit word Pudgala for habitual aggregate.

6. 时分天 Hour Minute Sky

梵语夜摩，华言时分天，谓此天及以上，但以莲花开合而分昼夜。据说，昔日帝释天与阿修罗战争时，欲与时分天结盟，被拒绝了，故时分天得号无诤。时分诸天是上品十善，兼学坐禅所感，或是不杀、不盗、不邪淫、三戒增上功德所感，或亦八戒、十戒等功德所感。身长七百二十肘。衣广中一千四百四十肘，重一根羽毛（如插图12所示）。寿三千岁，以身相近为阴阳。

The Sanskrit word Yama, Chinese calls Hour-Minute Sky, it is saying that this sky and above day and night are divided by the opening and closing of the lotus flower. It is said that in the past, when Seth was at war with the Asura, wanted to make an alliance with the Hour-Minute Sky, but was refused, so the Hour-Minute Sky was given the fame of non-expostulation. The Hour-Minute skies are the results of the ten benevolences of the upper grade and the study of meditation, or inspired by the fortune and virtue of three precepts, not killing, not stealing, and not committing heretical sex, or induced by the fortune and virtue of eight precepts, ten precepts, etc. Their body length is 720 cubits. The clothes are 1,440 cubits from the outer edge to the center and weigh one feather (as shown in Illustration 13.1.6-3). Their life span is 3,000 years; regard going-close as sexual affairs.

插图12.1.6-3 源自埃及，是在测量人心的重量是否具有升天的资格。此处的人心指的是思想意识，所以他们是在称量 “心衣” 的重量。心衣的概念参见13.2节。

Illustration 12.1.6-3 is from Egypt and is measuring the weight of the human heart to see if it is qualified to ascend to above sky. The human heart in this case refers to the mind, so they are weighing the "cloths of heart". See section 14.2 for the concept of the heart cloths.

7. 知足天 Contentment Sky

知足（如插图12.1.6-11），谓于色声香味触五欲境知止足，亦名如意。此天乃精修十善，兼得细住所感，或是身三口四七支戒品（参见12.1节）增上功德所感，或亦八戒、十戒等力所感。身长一千肘；衣重半根羽毛；寿六千岁；以执手为阴阳。又此天中别有一内院，住着一位一生补处大士（注，即玉女、观音菩萨、夏娃）。契经云：乃至劫坏，三灾不及也；菩萨修行十善，乐习禅观，当发心亲近补处大士，乃得上生。

Contentment (fig. 12.1.6-11) means knowing satisfaction and stop on five desires (i.e., desires of color, sound, smell, taste, and touch), also known as As-Wish. This sky is the result of cultivation of the ten benevolences of the upper grade and practicing the delicate dwell of meditation, or induced by the fortune and virtue of three body percepts and four oral precepts (cf. section 12.1), or inspired by eight precepts, ten precepts, etc. Body length is 1,000 cubits; clothes weigh half a feather; lifespan is 6,000 years; holding hands is sexual affair between man and woman. Also, there is an inner courtyard in this sky, and there lives a “One Life Amendment Place Great Warrior” (annotation, i.e., Jade Woman, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Eve). The Harmony Sutra says, “up to catastrophe end, water disaster fire disaster and wind disaster can not reach her. Bodhisattvas or whoever practice the ten benevolences and are willing to practice meditation, should arouse heart to get close to the “Amendment Place Great Warrior”, so that he or she can ascend.

8. 自化天 Self-Converted Sky

自化自在天，由此诸天自化五尘娱乐而得名，乃是上品十善兼成欲界中定所感。身长一千三百肘，衣重四分之一根羽毛，寿七千岁，以相互熟视为阴阳。

Self-Converted Self-Sufficient Sky, the skies entertain themselves by their own converted five dusts (i.e., color dust, sound dust, fragrance dust, taste dust, and touch dust), hence the name. they are results of the ten benevolences of the upper grade and stillness achievement (cf. section 12.1) of Desire Boundary. Body length is 1,300 cubits, clothes weigh a quarter of a feather, lifespan is 7,000 years, appreciably watching each other is sex between man and woman.

注，如插图12.1.6-10所示，这是一个颠倒的世界观。那么，为什么古人还给予他们这么高的评价？答：这是觉悟历程中的一个重要阶段。而且此天以下众生的世界观都是颠倒的。

Note, as shown in illustration 12.1.6-10, this is an upside-down worldview. So, why did the ancients still rate them this highly? Answer: This is an important stage in the process of enlightenment. And the worldviews of all sentient beings below this sky are upside down.

9. 他化天 It Converted Sky

他化自在天，谓此天假借他人所化的五尘而成己乐，乃上品十善兼成未到地定所感。此天身长一千八百肘，衣重八分之一根羽毛，寿八千岁。又，他化天上别有一魔身天（如插图12.1.6-9），他化天摄，身长两千肘，寿九千岁。

“Other-Converted Self-Sufficient Sky” is saying that these skies entertain themselves by other converted five dusts. They are results of the ten benevolences of the upper grade and the attainment of Nonarrival Stillness (cf. section 12.1). Body length is 1,800 cubits, cloths weigh one-eighth of a feather, and lifespan is 8,000 years. Furthermore, above the It-Converted Sky, there is a “Demonic Body Sky” (see illustration 12.1.6-9). They are assimilated by the It-Converted Sky. Their body length is 2,000 cubits; lifespan is 9,000 years.

插图12.1.6.9-23至32都是魔身天的图画。

图25表示《桃花劫》中常公（金童）和桃花女（玉女）裸体结婚的场景（参见2.1节）。

图 26中的猪代表上帝安拉造的须弥颅（亚当），女人是安拉的女儿苦芭芭（夏娃）（参见4.4节）。

Illustrations 12.1.6.6-23 to 32 are all pictures of the “demon body sky”.

Illustration 25 shows the scene of Constant Fair (Gold Boy) and Peach Flower Girl (Jade Girl) getting married naked in "Peach Flower Catastrophe" (see Section 2.1).

The pig in Illustration 26 represents Sumeru (Adam), created by God Allah, and the woman is Allah's daughter Kubaba (Eve) (See Section 4.4).

图27中的鹿代表上帝宙斯造的七色鹿佛阿波罗（金童），女的是宙斯的女儿雅典娜（玉女，参见14.2节）。

图28中的山羊是上帝雷音造的德意志（睚眦，亚当），女的是雷音的女儿磨牙（夏娃）（参见14.3节）。

图29和30是上帝左翼蜂鸟造的墨西哥（金童，特拉洛克），和翠玉女（玉女）（参见14.4节）。

The deer in Illustration 27 represents the “seven-color deer Buddha” Apollo (Gold Boy) created by God Zeus, and the woman is Zeus's daughter Athena (Jade Girl), (See Section 14.2).

The goat in Illustration 28 is Germany (Tanngnjóstr, Adam, created by God Thor, and the woman is Thor's daughter Tanngrisnir (Eve) (See Section 14.3)

Illustrations 29 and 30 are Mexico (Gold Boy, Tlaloc), and Chalchiuhtlicue (Jade Girl) created by God Huitzilopochtli (See section 14.4)

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