[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) › [釋門歸敬儀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896) › 1.30 # 釋門歸敬儀 1.30 釋門歸敬儀 1.30 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.30) 序曰：夫以立像表真，恒俗彛訓；寄指筌月，出道常規。但以妄想倒情，相㳂固習，無思悛革，隨業漂淪。是以經言：「為善若登，清升若爪之土；為惡若崩，沈滯如下之地。」此言在斯，誠為極誡。何以知耶？但以慢山上聳，俯視於人物；我室四蒙，包藏於見愛。慢無納法之實，經明覆器之賓；我有懷著之功，論顯納烟之義。器仰無思不服，有服必拔慢根，室壞便歸太虛，見愛安形無地，理例然也。背此非凡，所行情事得也；乖斯是聖，遊履適化然也。 > The preface states: Setting up images to represent the true is a constant norm of worldly custom; pointing the finger to trap the moon is the ordinary rule of the transcendent path. Yet because of deluded thoughts and inverted passions, perpetuating ingrained habits, they never consider reforming and changing, but drift and sink along with their karma. Therefore a sūtra says: "Practicing good is like climbing up: those who rise cleanly are like the soil on a fingernail; doing evil is like a landslide: those who sink and stagnate are like the earth of the great ground." These words here are truly the utmost admonition. How is this known? It is only that the mountain of pride rises high above, looking down upon people and things; the room of the ego is shrouded on all four sides, harboring views and craving. When there is pride, there is no reality of receiving the Dharma, as the sūtra clarifies with the metaphor of a guest like an overturned vessel; the ego has the function of harboring attachments, as the treatise reveals with the meaning of taking in smoke. When the vessel is turned upward, no thought is not subdued, and once subdued, the root of pride is surely uprooted; when the room is destroyed, one returns to the great void, and where can views and craving find ground to take shape? The principle naturally holds thus. To turn one's back on this is not to be an ordinary person, and the conduct of practical matters will be accomplished; to depart from this belongs to the noble ones, whose roamings and strides adapt to converting beings. Thus it is. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.29) - [Next: 1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.31) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896~en-mt.1.30) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.30) · Pramāṇa