釋門歸敬儀 1.50

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恐好事者，須稟教量。故出一二，用弘其道。道貴清通，義非壅結。仍須識分，以自揣摩。無容冒罔，自謂超挺，生報茫然，孰識夷險？必有斯人，則自溺苦海，誰能濟拔。今約兩緣，立儀表行，入道多門，不過理事。理謂道理，通聖心之遠懷；事謂事局，約凡情之延度。聖非自聖，終假導而漸明；凡非定凡，亦因開而達解。是知愚智深淺，賢聖位階，由解行之遠近，致利鈍之乖異。故《論》云：「無分別智即是菩薩，菩薩即是無分別智。」菩薩約位，且列五十餘階。故知無分之智，念念利鈍，此言有旨。然使鈍士依事，引方土之歡娛，且以安身，身安而後道也；利人行理，剋正念而濯性靈，用以清心，心清而出有也。然利鈍千差，昏明等級，薄知綱領，標控神解。故歷諸篇，通斯一致，則披者不昧於由徑，行者無滯於發足矣。

Fearing that eager seekers need to receive the authentic teaching, I therefore set forth one or two points to propagate the Way. The Way values clarity and openness; its meaning does not brook obstruction. One must still recognize one's lot to examine oneself. There is no room for brazenly presuming oneself to be extraordinarily superior; with future retribution obscure, who knows the level ground from the peril? If there are such persons, they will drown themselves in the sea of suffering, and who can rescue them? Now, taking two conditions, I establish the rites to display practice. Although there are many gates to enter the Way, they do not exceed principle and phenomena. "Principle" refers to the underlying truth, penetrating the far-reaching aspirations of the noble mind; "phenomena" refers to specific situations, restricting the capacities of ordinary sentiments. The noble are not inherently noble; they ultimately rely on guidance to gradually become clear. The ordinary are not permanently ordinary; they also attain understanding through being opened up. Hence we know that the depth or shallowness of ignorance and wisdom, and the stages of the worthy and the noble, are due to the distance traversed in understanding and practice, resulting in the disparity between the sharp and the dull. Therefore a treatise says: "Non-conceptual wisdom is itself the bodhisattva; the bodhisattva is itself non-conceptual wisdom." When bodhisattvas are categorized by stages, they are listed in more than fifty levels. Thus we know that in non-conceptual wisdom, thought after thought contains the sharp and the dull; these words have deep intent. Thus, letting dull persons rely on phenomena draws upon the joys of local lands to temporarily settle their bodies, for once the body is settled, the Way follows. Letting sharp persons practice principle directly establishes correct mindfulness and cleanses their spiritual nature, using it to purify the mind, for once the mind is purified, they transcend existence. Yet the sharp and the dull have a thousand differences, and darkness and brightness have many ranks. Understanding the essential outlines a little, one establishes control over spiritual realization. Therefore, traversing the various chapters, this single principle runs through them, so that those who open [this book] will not be blinded as to the path, and practitioners will not falter at their first step.