[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [觀音玄義記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727) › 4.5 # 觀音玄義記 4.5 觀音玄義記 4.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727.4.5) 問：性德善惡及以苦樂，皆是法門不生不滅，今何與拔？答：斯之妙談不可輕議。以三菩薩觀於苦樂但謂修成，故存與拔之功，莫運無緣之力，是故慈悲俱不名普。今知所生苦樂及以能生因緣皆是性德，故拔一切苦不損毫釐，與一切樂不增微末，方得慈悲廣普、塵劫忘勞。此眾生緣，與其無緣無二無別。 > Question: Inherent good and evil as well as suffering and bliss are all Dharma-gates, unproduced and unceasing; now why speak of bestowing and relieving? Answer: This wondrous discourse must not be discussed lightly. Because the bodhisattvas of the three \[teachings\] contemplate suffering and bliss merely as achieved through cultivation, they retain the effort of bestowing and relieving and cannot activate the power of the unconditioned; therefore their benevolence and compassion are both not called universal. Now, knowing that the produced suffering and bliss, as well as the causes and conditions capable of producing them, are all inherent virtue, therefore relieving all suffering does not diminish anything by a hair's breadth, and bestowing all bliss does not increase anything by a tiny fraction; only then is benevolence and compassion vast and universal, forgetting weariness through dust-mote kalpas. This condition on sentient beings is not two and not different from the unconditioned. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727.4.4) - [Next: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727.4.6) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727~en-mt.4.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1727.4.5) · Pramāṇa