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四明十義書 2.62

四明十義書 2.62

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Classical Chinese

2.62

豈非謂心是非迷非悟之真心(心唯屬理),此心迷則為生、悟則名佛。此則只得一人心法生佛少分(以唯知事造生佛,不知理具生佛。二造雙明方名全分),殊不識法界有情十方諸佛生佛之全分。因嗟《珠指》棄於大海而取一漚,所得者如爪上土,所失者如大地土。

Is this not asserting that the mind is the true mind that is neither deluded nor awakened (the mind belonging solely to principle), and that when this mind is deluded it is a sentient being, while when it is awakened it is called a buddha? This grasps only a minor portion of the sentient beings and buddhas of one person's mind-dharma (for it only knows the phenomenal production of sentient beings and buddhas, not knowing that they are inherently possessed in principle; only when both types of production are clarified is it called the complete portion), and completely fails to recognize the full portion of sentient beings and buddhas across all sentient beings of the dharmadhātu and all buddhas of the ten directions. Hence I sigh that the Zhuzhi discards the great ocean to seize a single foam bubble: what it gains is like the dirt upon a fingernail, while what it loses is like the dirt of the great earth.

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