四明尊者教行錄 4.110

4.110

答：有真有妄者，對迷說覺也。絕真絕妄者，泯相離筌也。確論其旨，真則全妄之真、妄則全真之妄，二無二體也。佛大聖人說真說妄者，所以欲人慕其真而破諸妄，使妄不得而興也。世人於茲不了，強執現前一念妄心均已是佛，正墮古人錯將強認之說矣。若更棄此妄念別覓真如，復同偏教所修，猶如棄波求水、捨器求金焉。茲二者過，猶不及也。要須不即不離、妙在其中，斯可矣。來意問以真妄同異者，今答曰：非同異中假立同異也。非同異者，真妄同源，縛脫不二故。假立同異者，迷悟不同，情智有異也。如此甄之，自然懸合諸文，毋勞委論矣。

Answer: Positing that there is the real and there is the false is spoken in response to delusion to explain awakening. Obliterating the real and obliterating the false is to extinguish marks and abandon the fish trap. To define its purport definitively: the real is the real that is entirely the false; the false is the false that is entirely the real; the two do not have two substances. That the Buddha, the Great Sage, spoke of the real and spoke of the false was in order that people might admire the real and destroy all falsehood, so that falsehood could not arise. Worldly people do not understand this, stubbornly clinging to the idea that the single present thought of the deluded mind is already completely a buddha; this falls precisely under the ancient saying about mistakenly identifying and stubbornly presuming. If one further discards this deluded thought to search elsewhere for true thusness, this again matches the cultivation of the partial teachings, just like discarding waves to seek water or abandoning a vessel to seek gold. Both of these are faults of excess and deficiency. One must be neither identical nor separate, the wondrous being right therein; only then will it do. As to your intended question regarding whether the real and the false are identical or different, I now answer: within the non-identical and non-different, identity and difference are provisionally established. As for non-identical and non-different: the real and the false share the same source, and bondage and liberation are non-dual. As for provisionally establishing identity and difference: delusion and enlightenment are not the same, and sentiment and wisdom are different. Discriminating it in this way, it naturally accords thoroughly with the various scriptures, without need for exhaustive discussion.