西方合論 1.20

1.20

夫滯相述心，有為過出；著空破有，莽蕩禍生。達摩為救執相之者，說罪福之皆虛；永明為破狂慧之徒，言萬善之總是。滅火者水，水過即有沈溺之災；生物者日，日盛翻為枯焦之本。如來教法，亦復如是。五葉以來，單傳斯盛；迨於今日，狂濫遂極。謬引惟心，同無為之外道；執言皆是，趨五欲之魔城。不思阿難未得盡通，頭陀擯斥；摩達微牽結使，尊者呵譏。蟬翅薄習，寶所斯遙；丘山叢垢，淨樂何從？至若《楞伽》傳自達磨，悟修並重；清規創始百丈，乘戒兼行。未聞一乘綱宗，呵叱淨戒；五燈嫡子，貪戀世緣。昔有道士夜行，為鬼所著，宛轉塚間。有甲父見之，扶掖入舍，湯沃乃醒。道士臨別謂甲夫曰：「羈客無以贈主人，有辟鬼符二張，願以為謝。」聞者笑之。今之學者，貪嗔邪見熾然如火，而欲為人解縛，何其惑也！

Now, clinging to signs to express the mind is the origin of conditioned faults; clinging to emptiness and destroying existence is the arising of heedless calamity. Bodhidharma, to rescue those who clung to signs, spoke of both sin and merit as empty; Yongming, to crush the followers of reckless wisdom, spoke of the myriad virtues as entirely right. That which extinguishes fire is water, yet an excess of water brings the disaster of drowning; that which gives life to things is the sun, yet an excess of the sun turns into the cause of withering and parching. The Tathāgata's teaching is also like this. Since the Five Leaves, the special transmission flourished; coming down to the present day, wild excesses have reached their peak. Erroneously invoking 'mind-only', they equate it with the non-action of external paths; clinging to the words that 'all is right', they rush into the demon citadels of the five desires. They do not consider that when Ānanda had not yet fully attained penetrating knowledge, the ascetic [Mahākāśyapa] expelled him; that when Madhu was slightly pulled by the fetters, the Venerable One reprimanded him. If one's habit-energy is as thin as a cicada's wing, the Treasure Place is far away; if defilements accumulate like mounds and mountains, whence can pure joy come? As for the Laṅkāvatāra transmitted by Bodhidharma, awakening and practice were both emphasized; as for the pure regulations initiated by Baizhang, vehicle and precepts were pursued in tandem. We have never heard of the cardinal tenet of the One Vehicle denouncing the pure precepts, or the legitimate heirs of the Five Lamps clinging passionately to worldly conditions. Formerly, a Daoist priest walking at night was possessed by a ghost and rolled about among graves. A certain man saw him, supported him into his cottage, and poured hot water over him until he revived. When parting, the Daoist said to the man: 'A traveler has nothing to give the host, but I have two talismans to ward off ghosts, which I wish to offer in thanks.' Those who heard this laughed. Today's scholars have greed, anger, and wrong views blazing like fire, yet they wish to untie bonds for others—how deluded they are!