[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) › 1.73 # 釋門歸敬儀 1.73 釋門歸敬儀 1.73 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.73) 「四依了義經不依不了義經者。此之兩經，竝聖言量。凡入道者，率先曉之，則無壅不通，有疑皆決。但為群生性識深淺、利鈍不同，致令大聖隨情別說。然據至道，但是自心，故《經》云：『三界上下法，我說惟是心。』此就世界依報以明心也。又云：『如如與真際，涅槃及法界，種種意生身，佛說唯心量。』此據出世法體以明心也。終窮至實，畢到斯源，隨流赴感，還宗了義。故佛以法，約定權機。何以知然？且如欲有亂善（禮佛、誦經、觀想、念佛等，竝是世善，不能出有），體封下界，《經》中有說為不動業，及以成佛，竝非了義。以此凡愚，少厭欲苦，令修淨觀，多生退沒，故隨意樂，說為道業。然其此業，因亂果定，覈其修證，成相似報，得生善趣，事淨國土，終非事業，剋於佛果。後因前業，重更修明，靜智澄清，方遂前願。故《論》云：『若有誦持多寶佛名，得生淨土者，別時遠意。』且就一權，自分麁細，福道交加，純雜備有。恐新聞者有致煩昏，故且筆削。餘如凡聖行法，次第廣解。此之一篇，分定邪正，不解不行，則非所述。 > "Fourth, regarding 'relying on definitive sūtras and not on non-definitive sūtras': Both of these sūtras are authoritative sage speech. All who enter the Way must first understand them; then nothing will be obstructed and unresolved, and all doubts will be settled. Yet because the nature and consciousness of sentient beings vary in depth and in sharpness or dullness, the Great Sage was led to teach differently according to sentiments. However, based on the ultimate Way, it is merely one's own mind. Thus a sūtra says: 'The phenomena above and below in the three realms, I teach to be only mind.' This clarifies mind in terms of the circumstantial retribution of the world. It also says: 'Suchness and the true limit, nirvāṇa and the dharmadhātu, the various mind-made bodies—the Buddha teaches they are only mind.' This clarifies mind based on the essence of supramundane dharmas. Ultimately exhausting the true reality, one wholly reaches this source; following the flow to respond to conditions, one returns to the definitive meaning as the ancestor. Thus the Buddha used the Dharma to make provisions for provisional faculties. How is this known? For instance, with the distracted goodness of the desire realm (bowing to the Buddha, reciting sūtras, visualization, mindfulness of the Buddha, etc., are all worldly goods and cannot transcend existence), its essence is confined to the lower realm; when sūtras speak of them as immovable karma and as achieving Buddhahood, these are both non-definitive meanings. Because these ordinary fools have little aversion to the sufferings of desire, if one causes them to cultivate pure contemplation, many will fall back and drown; therefore, in accordance with their inclinations, it is spoken of as the work of the Way. However, as this karma has a distracted cause, its fruit is fixed; examining its cultivation and realization, it achieves a semblance retribution, enabling birth in good destinies and pure lands of phenomena, yet ultimately it is not the enterprise that secures the fruit of Buddhahood. Later, on the basis of the former karma, one cultivates and clarifies it again; only when tranquil wisdom becomes pure does one fulfill the previous vow. Thus a treatise says: 'If there are those who recite and uphold the name of Prabhūtaratna Buddha and attain birth in a pure land, this refers to a distant intention for another time.' Even within a single provisional teaching, coarse and subtle naturally divide; blessings and the Way are intertwined, and the pure and mixed are both present. Fearing that those newly hearing this might become confused, I briefly abridge it with brush and ink. The rest is explained in broad detail in sequence, as in the practices of ordinary beings and sages. This single chapter distinguishes and determines the deviant and the correct; if one does not understand and does not practice, then it is not what I set forth." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.72) - [Next: 1.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.74) - [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.1.73) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [緇門警訓](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.3.20) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1896.1.73) · Pramāṇa