目錄 Catalog：15.0 序言 Preface；15.1 極喜地 Bliss Heartland；15.2 離垢地 Leave Filth Heartland；15.3 發光地 Glory Heartland；15.4 焰慧地 Flaming Gnosis Heartland；15.5 難勝地 Onerous Heartland；15.6 現前地 Manifestation Heartland；15.7 遠行地 Hike Heartland；15.8 不動地 Immovability Heartland；15.9 善慧地 Benevolent Gnosis Heartland；15.10 法雲地 Juristic Cloud Heartland

15.0 序言 Preface

道諦講通往涅槃的道路。塵世人成佛要經歷三大阿僧脂劫。脂是脂肪，是動物抗病害、耐寒、越冬的能量儲備，古人用其來指標成佛的福德資本。劫是劫跛、跛腳、顛簸義，古人亦作大時。

第一阿僧脂劫是從無始以來，到懂得四聖諦的道理後發菩提心，登上菩薩初地。菩薩是梵語，義為真人。發菩提心就是立下此四宏誓言：眾生無邊誓願度，煩惱無盡誓願斷，法門無量誓願學，佛道無上誓願成。

Path Crux talks about the path to salvation. For a mortal to become a Buddha, he or she must go through three A Monk Index Catastrophes.  Catastrophe means lame, and bumpy, ancients also considered it as Big Time.

The first “A Monk Index Catastrophe” is from beginningless time to when one understands the Four Victorious Cruxes, and arouses Bodhicitta, so aboard the first land of Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva is a Sanskrit word, meaning real human. To arouse Bodhicitta (i.e., Bodhi Heart, enlightenment seed) is to make these four great vows: “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!”

第二阿僧脂劫是從發菩提心登上菩薩初地至於第七地。這個階段的行人常常把自己看做補特伽羅。補特伽羅是梵語，義為習氣疙瘩，漢譯為竹馬（如圖15-13、36、37、38），歐洲人亦作獨角馬（如圖35）。

The second “A Monk Index Catastrophe” is from arousing Bodhi Heart, aboard the first land of bodhisattva to the seventh land. Migrators at this stage often think of themselves as a Pudgala. Pudgala is a Sanskrit word meaning a chunk of habits, translated in Chinese as Hobbyhorse (see Figs. 15-13, 36, 37, and 38), also used by Europeans as unicorn (see Fig. 35).

第三阿僧脂劫是從七地菩薩發起金鋼喻定，出塵，登第八地成為摩訶薩，以至於第十地，盡未來際。金鋼喻定，亦作金鋼橋，金剛無間道；行者也可以通過閱讀 “到達方舟” 來實現這一功能。摩訶薩是梵語，義為大菩薩，大真人。

簡單地說，道諦即菩薩以此十地為依為持，修行十渡，斷十重障，證十真如，成就無上正等正覺（梵語是啊褥多羅三藐三菩提）。

The third “A Monk Index Catastrophe” is when the Bodhisattva on the seventh land arouses “Philosopher-Stone Metaphor Stillness”, ousting dusts completely, ascends to the eighth land, and becomes a Mahasattva, up to the tenth land, so on to the exhaustion of time. The “Philosopher-Stone Metaphor Stillness”, also known as the “Philosopher-Stone Bridge”, “Philosopher-Stone Non-Intermittent Path”, “The Big Flood”; readers also can do this by reading the “Arrival Ark".  Mahasattva is a Sanskrit word meaning great bodhisattva, great real human.

To put it simply, Path Crux means that the bodhisattva uses these ten lands as the basis for holding, practicing the ten Arks, breaking the ten hindrances, testifying the ten true suchness, and achieving Non-Upper Correct-Equality Correct-Perception, which in Sanskrit is Anuttara Samyak Sambodhi.

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