Summary
s.1In this sūtra, at the request of venerable Śāriputra, the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya elucidates a very brief teaching on dependent arising that the Buddha had given earlier that day while gazing at a rice seedling. The text discusses outer and inner causation and its conditions, describes in detail the twelvefold cycle by which inner dependent arising gives rise to successive lives, and explains how understanding the very nature of that process can lead to freedom from it.
s.1在這部經典中，尊者舍利弗請求菩薩摩訶薩彌勒闡述佛陀在當天早些時候凝視稻芽時所傳授的一個簡要教法，內容涉及緣起。文中討論了外在和內在的因果及其條件，詳細描述了內在緣起導致連續轉生的十二支循環，並解釋了理解這一過程本質如何能帶來對其的解脫。