摩訶止觀 10.54

10.54

若三藏四門，是出世聖人得出世法，體是清淨，滅煩惱處。非唯佛經是正法，五百所申亦能得道。《妙勝定》云：「佛去世後一百年，十萬人出家，九萬人得道；二百年時，十萬人出家，一萬人得道。」當知以無著心，不著無著法，發心真正，覺悟無常。念念生滅，朝不保夕，志求出要，不封門生染而起戲論。譬如有人欲速見王，受賜拜職，從四門入，何暇盤停諍計好醜？知門是通途，不須諍計；如藥為治病，不應分別。速出火宅盡諸苦際，真明發時證究竟道，畢竟無諍。無諍則無業，無業則無生死，但有道滅。心地坦然，因果俱無，鬪諍俱滅，唯有正見，無邪見也。

As for the four gates of the Tripiṭaka, they are world-transcending dharmas attained by world-transcending noble ones; their substance is pure, being the place where afflictions are extinguished. Not only are the Buddha's sūtras the correct Dharma, but what the five hundred [arhats] expounded can also attain the Way. The Miaoshengding jing states: 'One hundred years after the Buddha's passing, one hundred thousand people left household life and ninety thousand attained the Way; at two hundred years, one hundred thousand left household life and ten thousand attained the Way.' One should know that with a non-clinging mind, one does not cling to non-clinging dharmas, generating a mind that is upright and correct, awakening to impermanence. Arising and ceasing thought-moment by thought-moment, not guaranteed from morning to evening, one aspires to seek the essential escape, not barricading the gates to produce defilement and generate conceptual proliferation. For example, if a person wishes to quickly see the king to receive gifts and be appointed to office, entering through the four gates, what leisure would they have to linger and argue over good and bad? Knowing that the gates are thoroughfares, they need not dispute; just as medicine is for curing disease, one should not discriminate. Quickly escaping the burning house and exhausting the limits of all suffering, when true illumination arises they realize the ultimate Way, being completely without dispute. Being without dispute, there is no karma; without karma, there is no birth and death; there are only the path and cessation. The ground of the mind is tranquil and open, causes and results are both absent, conflicts and disputes are all extinguished; there is only correct view, and no perverse views.