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四明十義書 1.15

四明十義書 1.15

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Classical Chinese

1.15

又文自專談果佛法相,定非直顯心性矣。上人本謂已是約行觀故,故可廢今觀心一科。既非約行之觀,則後文觀心豈可輒廢耶(縱欲攀附諸文觀心,亦只成事法觀義,終不是理觀,況復附不及)?

Furthermore, the text itself exclusively discusses the doctrinal characteristics of the fruition Buddha; it is definitively not directly revealing mind-nature. You, Venerable, originally claimed that because it was already contemplation according to practice, the present rubric of contemplating the mind could be abolished. Since it is not contemplation according to practice, how can the subsequent text on contemplating the mind be rashly abolished? (Even if you wish to attach it to the contemplation of the mind in various texts, it would only constitute the meaning of phenomenal and doctrinal contemplation; in the end it is not principle contemplation, not to mention that it fails even to attach to it.)

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