摩訶止觀 8.27

8.27

今末代癡人聞菴羅果甘甜可口，即碎其核，甞之甚苦。果種甘味一切皆失。無智慧故，刻核太過，亦復如是。聞「非調伏非不調伏，亦不礙調伏亦不礙不調伏」，以不礙故名「無礙道」；以無礙故，灼然淫泆，公行非法，無片羞恥，與諸禽獸無相異也。此是噉鹽太過，鹹渴成病。經云：「貪著無礙法，是人去佛遠，譬如天與地。」大經云：「言我修無相，則非修無相。」此人行於非道，欲望通達佛道，還自壅塞，同於凡鄙。是住不調，非不住也。復有行人聞「不住調伏，不住不調伏」，怖畏二邊，深自競持，欲修中智，斷破二邊。是人不能即貪欲是道，斷貪欲已，方云是道。此乃住調伏心，非不住也。北方備此兩失。

Now, foolish people of the final age hear that the mango fruit is sweet and palatable, and immediately crush its pit; tasting it, it is extremely bitter. The fruit seed and the sweet flavour are entirely lost. Because they lack wisdom, their carving of the pit is excessive; it is just like this. Hearing "neither subduing nor non-subduing, nor does it obstruct subduing nor obstruct non-subduing," because of non-obstruction it is called the "unobstructed path"; and because of non-obstruction, they blatantly engage in lewdness and openly practice illegality without a shred of shame, no different from beasts. This is consuming salt to excess, becoming sick with thirst from the saltiness. A sūtra says: "If one greedily clings to the unobstructed Dharma, such a person is far from the Buddha, as distant as heaven and earth." The Great Sūtra says: "Saying 'I cultivate the signless' is precisely not cultivating the signless." This person practices non-paths hoping to penetrate the Buddha-path, but on the contrary blocks himself and becomes identical to the common and base. This is abiding in the unsubdued, not non-abiding. Furthermore, there are practitioners who, hearing "neither abide in subduing nor abide in non-subduing," fear the two extremes, intensely vie and hold themselves back, and wish to cultivate the wisdom of the middle to sever and destroy the two extremes. Such a person cannot take lust as itself the path; only after severing lust does he then say it is the path. This is an attitude of abiding in subduing, not non-abiding. The northern region possesses both of these errors.