[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) › [注大乘入楞伽經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791) › 2.208 # 注大乘入楞伽經 2.208 注大乘入楞伽經 2.208 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.208](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791.2.208) 下中上修，言隨人分量也。分別流注，即上二種生住滅也。餘義如文。皆當親近善知識者，如馬鳴曰：「諸佛法者有因有緣，因緣具足乃得成辨。如木中火性，是火正因，若無人知，不假方便能自燒木，無有是處。」眾生亦爾。雖有正因熏習之力，不遇諸佛菩薩知識示教利喜、慈悲攝護以之為緣，能自斷煩惱入涅槃者，則無是處。 > "Inferior, middling, and superior cultivation" refers to following each person's capacity. "The stream of discrimination" refers to the above two kinds of arising, abiding, and ceasing. The remaining meaning is as in the text. That "all should draw close to good spiritual friends": as Aśvaghoṣa said, "The dharmas of all Buddhas have primary causes and contributory conditions; only when causes and conditions are complete can they be accomplished. Like the nature of fire within wood, which is the primary cause of fire: if no person knows it and does not employ expedients, that it could burn the wood of itself is impossible." Sentient beings are also like this: although they have the perfuming power of the primary cause, if they do not encounter Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and spiritual friends who show, teach, benefit, gladden, and compassionately gather and protect them as a condition, that they could of themselves sever afflictions and enter nirvāṇa is impossible. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.207](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791.2.207) - [Next: 2.209](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791.2.209) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791~en-mt.2.208) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [萬善同歸集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2017.2.32) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791.2.208](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1791.2.208) · Pramāṇa