文／蓮生活佛 盧勝彥
佛陀曰：「從聞思修，起戒定慧，如此修行，所修所證，如理如量。菩薩依善知識，聽聞正法，時時憶持不忘，依憶持不忘起觀察心，依觀察心起如理思維，依如理思維起持淨戒，依持淨戒起十善道，依十善道起三種淨行，依三種淨行起不放逸，依不放逸起方便慧，依方便慧起六波羅蜜，依六波羅蜜起菩提心，依菩提心起菩薩大悲。」
「復次，善知識能傳道、授業、解惑、開顯法身慧命，故能依止。覺悟無常，故能不懈怠。持戒為伴侶，故能不造惡。依經藏為眼目，故能不迷惑。立壇持咒，故能增長福慧。一法深入，故能一心。從禪定中深入，故能淨心。用六波羅蜜起正行，故能開智利他。菩提心與大悲心任運，故能報四重恩。證大圓滿，得無上正等正覺。」
烏金第二佛蓮華生大士說：「世間萬物，無非是空。人生於茲，無非是苦。無常迅速，急早修行。敬師、重法、實修者得之！」
有很多弟子問我：
「如何是大圓滿灌頂？」
我回答：
「你們的心在那裡呢？」
諸弟子不明白我的意旨所在。於是，我說，一切佛法．由因緣而生，自性本空，無作者，無受者，如此通達者，能悟入涅槃也。
「我空、他空、法空、我法皆空。」
這就是大圓滿灌頂。
按密教四層灌頂是初灌「身口意清淨」，二灌「氣脈明點」，三灌「無上密部」，四灌「大圓滿」。
這大圓滿灌頂是無形、無像、無拘、無束、無模、無樣，是不可說灌頂。
The Great Perfection of Vajrayana
Written by Living Buddha Lian-sheng Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by Cheng Yew Chung edited by Victor Hazen
True Buddha Translation Teams
The Buddha said, “To cultivate by listening and contemplation, one develops discipline, meditative stability and wisdom. And in so doing, all that one cultivates and attains shall be in accordance with the Ultimate Principle of Reality and experiential wisdom. A bodhisattva, following a good guide, shall always remember the right teachings that he has heard, and through his recollection of the teachings he learns to make observations. By his observations he contemplates according to the fundamental truth, and with this contemplation he is able to maintain pure discipline. By keeping his discipline, he practices the Ten Virtues. Through the cultivation of the Ten Virtues he practices the Three Pure Conducts. With the cultivation of these three conducts, he behaves responsibly, and with responsible behaviour, he develops expedient wisdom. With this expedient wisdom, he develops the Six Perfections. With the Six Perfections he shall generate his bodhicitta. And acting in accordance with bodhicitta he shall develop the great compassion of a bodhisattva.
As well, a good guide can propagate the path, transmit the teachings, resolve problems and kindle the spiritual lives of men. Thus he can be relied upon. He realizes the truth of impermanence, and thus is diligent in his cultivation. He keeps his discipline and therefore avoids creating transgressions. He acts according to the scriptural texts and avoids delusion. He erects the mandala shrine and recites mantra, through which he gains the enhancement of blessings and wisdom. He penetrates deeply into truth through a singular teaching, and therefore achieves one-pointedness. He dwells in profound states through meditation, and thus attains the purification of mind. He acts properly according to the Six Perfections and therefore gains the wisdom to serve others. His state of bodhicitta and great compassion are expressed spontaneously and as naturally as he wishes, and he can therefore repay the Fourfold Gratitude, attain the Great Perfection and Unexcelled Perfect Enlightenment.”
Padmasambhava, the second buddha of Uddiyana said, “All things of this world are but emptiness. And as humans born in this plane of existence, know that it is pure suffering. Impermanence arrives swiftly, and we must cultivate early. Only he who Honors the Guru, Treasures the Dharma and Practices Diligently shall attain enlightenment!”
Many disciples have asked me, “What is the empowerment of the Great Perfection?”
My reply was, “Where is your mind?”
My disciples were unable to understand my implication. Therefore, I explained that all of the Buddhadharma is born of causal conditions, yet the self-nature is inherently empty. No one is there to act, and no one is there to receive. Once this is understood, the route to realizing nirvana is within one’s reach.
“Emptiness of selfhood, emptiness of others, emptiness of objective phenomena(dharmas), and emptiness of both selfhood and objective phenomena.” This is the empowerment of the Great Perfection.
According to Vajrayana Buddhism, the first of the four levels of empowerment is the empowerment of the purification of the body, speech and mind. The second level of empowerment involves the winds, channels and drops. The third level of empowerment involves the Highest Yoga Tantra and the fourth level of empowerment is the Great Perfection.
This Great Perfection is without form and unrestricted. Therefore it is an empowerment which cannot be described.
