The Great Treatise on the Stages

of the path to Enlightenment

Going for Refuge to the Three Jewels

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 Sutra Opening Gatha 开经偈

Namo Fundamental Teacher Shakyamuni Buddha!

The Dharma, infinitely profound and subtle,

Is rarely encountered even in a million kalpas.
Now we are able to hear, study, and follow it,
May we fully realize the Tathagata’s true meaning.
南无本师释迦牟尼佛！
无上甚深微妙法，百千万劫难遭遇。
我今见闻得受持，愿解如来真实义。

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 Vocabulary Review

tenet [ˈtɛnɪt; ˈ ːnɪt] n. 信条，教义

omniscient [ɔm'nisiənt] a. 全知的
bliss [blis] n. 极乐
purify ['pjuərifai] v. 净化
defile [di'fail] v.玷污

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 Question

What are the six distinctions

among the three jewels?

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 Question

What is the distinction between the

Buddhist and Non-Buddhist teachings ?

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 Question
The six distinctions among the three jewels:

1. 相 差 别 ——based on their defining

characteristics
2. 业 差 别 ——based on their enlightened
activities
3. 信解差别——based on devotion
4. 修行差别——based on practice
5. 随念差别——based on recollection
6. 生 福 差 别 ——based on how they increase
merit
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 Key Points Review

Buddhist teachings vs non-Buddhist teachings:

• Purify vs defile
• Strictly reality vs misleading
• Purely virtuous vs create obstacles

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 Listen to the Recording of Ven. Master Richang
(42A 23:10-26:50- 42B 06:03）核心提要：
1）佛陀和外道大师之间主要差别体现在哪几个地方？即解释”我
捨諸餘師，我歸依世尊，此何故為尊，無過具功德。「於餘外
道教，如如善思惟，如是如是我，心信於依怙。如是非遍智，
宗過壞其心，心壞者不見，無過大師尊。。”在这方面我们有什
么觉受和体会，请分享。
2）对三宝的教差别是什么？即解释“教差別者，謂佛聖教，由
安穩道得安樂果，息生死流，淨諸煩惱，終不欺罔，樂解脫者
，唯一善妙，清淨罪惡，外道教法與此相違。” 佛法与外道的
法的方面大家有什么经历和感受可以与大家分享的？请分享。
3）对于教法之间的区别，关于【此純顯真如，彼唯欺罔法，尊
語與餘言，除此須何殊。】请大家分享。
4）对于教法之间的区别，关于【此專一妙善，彼唯障礙法，尊
語與餘言，除此有何別。】请大家分享。
5）对于教法之间的区别，关于【由彼染極染，由此能清淨，此
即依怙語，與餘言差別。」僧伽差別由此能知。】
 Vocabulary Today

conform[kən'fɔ:m] v. 符合，与……一致
undertake[ˌʌndə'teik] v. 承担，从事
faculty ['fækəlti] n.机能，官能
withdraw[wið'drɔ:] v. 收回，撤销

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 Question

Two sets of subdivisions of the

stages of the precepts?
4' Once you have gone for refuge, the stages of
the precepts
The precepts are explained in two ways:
1. How they appear in the Compendium of
Determinɑtions
2. How they appear in the oral tradition
a" How they appear in the Compendium of
Determinɑtions
Here the precepts are explained in two sets of
subdivisions.
[癸四］第四，既皈依已所学次第。分二：
[子一]《摄分》中出；[子二] 教授中出。
[子一] 今初。初中有二四聚。
1" The first set of subdivisions
(a) Rely on excellent persons
As previously explained, you rely on excellent
teachers when you see them as the source of all
good qualities, for you have already gone to the
Buddha for refuge and thereby uphold the teacher
of the path as your refuge. The practice that
conforms with this is actual reliance on the one
who teaches the path to you.
[丑一] 初四聚中，
[寅一] 亲近善士者。
谓如前说，善知识者乃是一切功德依处，观见是已而正亲近，
由皈依佛即是皈依示道大师。随顺此之正行，即是亲近示道师
故。
(b) Listen to the sublime teachings, and

(c) Fix your attention properly on them

You should listen to whatever is appropriate
among the sūtras and the like, teachings which are
sublime because the Buddha and the Buddha's
disciples explained them.

[寅二] 听闻正法及
[寅三] 如理作意者。
随其所应，谓当听闻若佛所说、若佛弟子所说法教诸契经等。
In addition, fix your attention on whatever
serves to dispel the afflictions, for you have
already gone to the teaching for refuge and you
have thus undertaken to actualize both the
verbal teachings and the teachings as they are
realized. The practice that conforms with this is
listening to and fixing your attention properly on
the sublime teachings.

及若作意何种所缘能息烦恼，即应作意，由皈依法，于教证
法应当现证。此即是彼随顺行故。

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(d) Cultivate a practice that conforms with the
teachings
You should practice in accordance with the
teachings on nirvana. When you have gone to the
community for refuge, you have thereby taken as
companions persons who are on the path to
nirvana. The practice that accords with this is
training in the way of those who are intent upon
liberation.

[寅四] 法随法行者。
谓应随顺般涅槃法而修正行。由皈依僧，于 趣涅槃 补特伽罗应
执为伴。其随顺行，谓应与诸趣解脱者，共同学故。
2" The second set of subdivisions
[丑二] 第二四聚中，
(a) Do not excite your sensory faculties
[寅一] 诸根不掉者。
(b) Take up the precepts correctly
[寅二] 受学学处者。
(c) Be compassionate toward living beings
[寅三] 悲愍有情者。
(d) Strive to make periodic offerings to the
three jewels
[寅四] 应时时间，于三宝所勤修供养者。
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2" The second set of subdivisions
(a) Do not excite your sensory faculties
When the sensory faculties draw the inattentive
mind to objects, you should view this excitement
with regard to sensory objects as a fault, and
withdraw the mind from them.
[丑二] 第二四聚中，
[寅一] 诸根不掉者。
谓根于境放散之后，意亦随逐，于境掉动深见过患，令意厌舍。
所学次第 二四聚

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 Listen to the Recording of Ven. Master Richang
(42B 06:03 - 42B 16:58）核心提要：

1）皈依了以后，所学次第分二，分别是什么？摄分中
出有二四聚，初四聚是什么？
2）常师父是怎么开演“亲近善士”的？反观我们自己
，亲近善士以后我们生起了什么如法的业？请分享。
3）常师父是怎么开演“听闻正法，如理作意，法随法
行”的？其中常师父告诉我们“造業都是從思惟而來
，現在只有緣著法去思惟，才是真正能夠靜息煩惱”
。对以上几点，我们有什么感受经历，请分享。
4）摄分中出的第二四聚是什么？
5）常师父是怎么开演“诸根不掉”的？结合我们自己
，我们有什么感受经历，请分享。
 Dedication 回向
May the superior virtue of this practice
Bring bliss to all sentient beings!
May all crimes and bad karma be removed!
May we attain the utmost enlightenment!

愿此殊胜功德 回向法界有情
尽除一切罪障 共成无上菩提
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