[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法華三昧懺儀](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941) › 1.3 # 法華三昧懺儀 1.3 法華三昧懺儀 1.3 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941.1.3) 聖教浸遠，文句舛錯，由傳者浮昧，若不校其同異、明示得失，日增月甚，遐喪真味。《法華三昧儀》者，天台大師瓦官親筆，蓋止觀第三三昧所指別行，即其文也。若夫啟迪後學，為時所宗，破障壞魔、入佛境界，與夫文殊、普賢並驅寶輅，遊方至極者，實惟斯漸矣。患其稍易舊章或亡精要，且十科行軌理觀為主，儻一以誤，九法徒施，有於坐禪觀法加成五句者，今列示之。文云「為因心故心，為不因心故心，為亦因心亦不因心故心，為非因心非不因心故心（元文），為非非因心非非不因心故心（近加）。」且山家凡約句法用觀，秖但至四，未知五句出自何文？又當推檢之際，第五句下準何為境？如何用觀？《輔行》自云「彼別行文但推四句，故今文中廣修象觀以廣於彼（《輔行》正文）。」況彼象觀猶是歷事，而正觀一門全今四句，豈應疑誤彼之大體哉？而復輒引經文繫乎卷末，濫回麁注錯其篇內，細碎之失莫得而舉也。故今直勘元本刻板印行，庶存先制，而今而後，求三昧者欲傳斯文，請固存此序用以區別。 > As the sacred teachings recede in time, their phrases and sentences fall into error; this is caused by the superficiality and confusion of those who transmit them. If one does not collate the similarities and differences and clearly display the defects and merits, day by day and month by month \[the errors\] worsen, losing the true flavor in the distance. The \*Repentance Ritual of the Lotus Samādhi\* was written down by the hand of the Great Master of Tiantai at Waguan Monastery. It is precisely the text referred to as the separately circulating \[work\] for the third samādhi in the \*Calming and Contemplation\*. For enlightening later students, for serving as the revered standard of the age, for smashing obstacles and destroying māras, for entering the realm of the Buddhas, and for driving the jeweled carriages abreast with Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra to journey across realms to the ultimate, this really is the progressive path. Fearing that the old rules would gradually be altered or the essential core lost—and furthermore, among the ten disciplines of the ritual tracks, the contemplation of principle is the principal one, so that if one \[point\] is mistaken, the nine methods will be applied in vain—some people have added a fifth phrase to the contemplation method in seated meditation. I now present it: The text states, "Is it due to the mind that there is mind? Is it not due to the mind that there is mind? Is it both due to the mind and not due to the mind that there is mind? Is it neither due to the mind nor not due to the mind that there is mind? (original text) Is it not-neither due to the mind and not-neither not due to the mind that there is mind? (recent addition)" Now, in our mountain tradition, whenever phrases are used for contemplation, they only reach four; who knows what text the fifth phrase comes from? Furthermore, when analyzing it, what is to be taken as the object under the fifth phrase? How is contemplation to be applied? The \*Fuxing\* itself states: "That separately circulating text only analyzes four phrases; therefore, in the present text, the contemplation of the elephant is broadly cultivated so as to expand upon that one (main text of the \*Fuxing\*)." How much more so given that the contemplation of the elephant is still an engagement with phenomena, whereas the single gate of correct contemplation entirely rests on the present four phrases—how could one harbor doubt and confuse its main substance? Moreover, they have rashly cited scriptural passages and appended them to the end of the roll, recklessly inserted crude commentaries to confuse the text within the fascicle; such minute faults are too numerous to recount. Therefore, I have now directly collated the original edition and carved printing blocks to circulate it, hoping to preserve the former regulations. From this time forward, whoever seeks the samādhi and wishes to transmit this text, please preserve this preface steadfastly to distinguish it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941.1.2) - [Next: 1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941.1.4) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941~en-mt.1.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1941.1.3) · Pramāṇa