肇論 1.89

1.89

無名曰：夫至人空洞無象，而萬物無非我造。會萬物以成已者，其唯聖人乎！何則？非理不聖，非聖不理；理而為聖者，聖不異理也。故天帝曰：「般若當於何求？」善吉曰：「般若不可於色中求，亦不離色中求。」又曰：「見緣起為見法，見法為見佛。」斯則物我不異之效也。所以至人戢玄機於未兆，藏冥運於即化，總六合以鏡心，一去來以成體。古今通，始終同，窮本極末，莫之與二，浩然大均，乃曰涅槃。經曰：「不離諸法而得涅槃。」又曰：「諸法無邊，故菩提無邊。」以知涅槃之道，存乎妙契；妙契之致，本乎冥一。然則物不異我、我不異物，物我玄會，歸乎無極。進之弗先，退之弗後，豈容終始於其間哉？天女曰：「耆年解脫亦如何久。」

The Nameless said: Indeed, the ultimate man is empty and formless, yet of the ten thousand things there is none he does not create. He who integrates the ten thousand things to complete himself—is he not the sage alone? Why is this? Without principle there is no sage; without the sage there is no principle. That principle constitutes the sage means that the sage is not different from principle. Thus the Lord of Devas said: 'Where should prajñā be sought?' Subhūti said: 'Prajñā cannot be sought in rūpa, nor can it be sought apart from rūpa.' It also says: 'To see dependent origination is to see the Dharma; to see the Dharma is to see the Buddha.' This is the proof that things and the self are not different. Therefore, the ultimate man conceals the profound trigger before omens appear, and hides the dark movement within immediate transformation; gathering the six directions, he mirrors them in his mind; unifying coming and going, he completes his substance. Antiquity and the present penetrate each other; beginning and end are identical. Fathoming the root and exhausting the branches, nothing is dual with him; vast and greatly leveled, this is called nirvāṇa. A sūtra says: 'Without departing from the various dharmas, one attains nirvāṇa.' It also says: 'Because the various dharmas are boundless, bodhi is boundless.' From this one knows that the Way of nirvāṇa resides in subtle tallying; the import of subtle tallying is rooted in dark oneness. Thus things are not different from me, and I am not different from things; things and the self mysteriously converge, returning to the boundless. Advancing, it is not prior; retreating, it is not posterior; how could beginning and end find room between them? The goddess said: 'How could the Elder's liberation also have duration?'