二諦義 1.6

1.6

夫不了二諦則契實之境、照俗之智不可融徹，境智不融徹而入薩波若海者，未有之也。宜哉諸佛說法常依二諦矣，支桑道學之士亦恢張真俗、垂統於後昆者不少。且夫二諦，二十家往復之族雖各述其所見，關鍵緊要之處未甞著工夫，豈非膚立持門戶、皮相矜影響之謂乎。吉藏上人間出隋世，而稟朗公之學，靈知難思，無不克擢其髓，遂廼製諸經玄疏翼贊教乘者，不知其幾千萬言。就中至如今章辨非有非無而二不二、鼠婁栗案苽等，啟沃舊師之未了、發特見之明也。如此其可忽諸？噫嘻！中世以隆，其學不傳、其書將泯。余屬日名寺藏中得此之錦本，欣戴捧讀不堪雀躍，率加點挍授書林，于時歲次丁丑元祿十年臘月穀日殺青斯竟。

Indeed, if one does not understand the two truths, then the object that tallies with reality and the cognition that illuminates the conventional cannot merge and penetrate; and for one whose object and cognition do not merge and penetrate to enter the ocean of sarvajñā has never occurred. How fitting it is that the Buddhas always teach the Dharma in reliance upon the two truths! In China, men of the study of the Dao who have expanded upon the ultimate and the conventional and handed down the tradition to posterity are also not few. Moreover, regarding the two truths, although the clans of the twenty houses of debate each stated their views, they never applied effort to the key and crucial points; is this not what is meant by skin-deep sectarian posturing and superficial boasting of mere echoes? The Eminent Monk Jizang appeared during the Sui dynasty and inherited the learning of Master Lang. His spiritual understanding was inconceivable, and there was nothing of its essence he did not extract. He ultimately composed profound commentaries on various sūtras to assist the teaching vehicles, amounting to I know not how many tens of millions of words. Among them, coming to the present chapter, which distinguishes non-existence and non-emptiness yet duality and non-duality, the rat and the basket, the chestnuts and the table melon, and so forth, he enlightened the lack of understanding of old masters and brought forth the brilliance of unique insight. How could such a work be neglected? Alas! Since the Middle Ages, this learning was not transmitted, and his writings were on the verge of disappearing. In the treasury of an old celebrated temple, I happened to obtain this fine brocade exemplar; filled with reverence, I held and read it, unable to contain my leaping joy. Promptly adding punctuation and collating it, I handed it over to the bookseller. At this time, in the twelfth month, an auspicious day, the year Dingchou, the tenth year of Genroku [1697], the printing was thus completed.