Summary
s.1King Śreṇya Bimbisāra of Magadha approaches the Buddha and asks him how a past action can appear before the mind at the moment of death. The Buddha presents the analogy of a sleeping person who dreams of a beautiful woman and on waking foolishly longs to find her. He cites this as an example of how an action of the distant past, which has arisen from perception and subsequent afflictive emotions and then ceased, appears to the mind on the brink of death. The Buddha goes on to explain how one transitions from the final moment of one life to the first moment of the next, according to the ripening of those actions, without any phenomena actually being transferred from one life to another. The Buddha concludes with a set of seven verses that offer a succinct teaching on emptiness, focusing on the two truths and the fictitious nature of names.
s.1摩揭陀的頻毘娑羅王走近佛陀，並問他過去的業行如何能在死亡時刻出現在心中。佛陀舉了一個睡著的人夢到一個美麗女人，醒來後愚癡地渴望找到她的比喻。他以此作為例子，說明距離遙遠的過去的業行，源自於想和隨後的煩惱，然後消失，但在臨近死亡時又出現在心中。佛陀進一步解釋了一個人如何從一生的最後時刻過渡到下一生的第一時刻，根據那些業行的成熟，而沒有任何現象實際上從一生轉移到另一生。佛陀最後以七首偈頌作為總結，提供了關於空性的簡明教導，重點關注二諦和名的虛妄本質。