[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) › [撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b) › 2.19 # 撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄 2.19 撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄 2.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b.2.19) 正位却偏，就偏辨得，是圓兩意（正位却偏者，為不對物，雖不對物却具。　正中無用為偏，全用為圓，是兩意。問：「如何是全？」云：「不顧者得底人也。」此正位不明來也，若佛出世也恁麼，若佛不出世也恁麼，所以千聖萬聖皆歸正位承當。　正中偏却具此一位，第一不得動著。　如學士揀獨脫物外，起眾聖之前，云是正位却圓，其實屈正位也。此例語是古人道過跡尚存，猶未得語中無語，此復呼為非正位也，為語中有語故。此可呼為有病兼帶，不得呼為相兼帶來耳）。 > The correct rank is yet biased; if distinguished within the biased, it fulfills both meanings. (That the correct rank is yet biased is because it does not face objects; although it does not face objects, it possesses them completely. No function within the correct is biased; total function is complete—these are the two meanings. It was asked, "What is total?" He said, "One who does not look back is one who has attained it." This correct rank does not clarify coming. If a Buddha appears in the world, it is so; if a Buddha does not appear in the world, it is also so. Therefore, thousands of sages and myriads of sages all return to the correct rank to undertake it. The biased within the correct nevertheless possesses this single rank; first of all, it must not be stirred. As when scholars discriminate being uniquely free beyond objects and arising prior to the many sages, calling it the correct rank being yet complete: this in fact wrongs the correct rank. Such exemplary words are the tracks remaining after the ancients spoke; one still has not attained speechlessness within speech. This again is called 'not the correct rank,' because there is speech within speech. This can be called integration with illness; it cannot be called mutual integration coming along.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b.2.18) - [Next: 2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b.2.20) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b~en-mt.2.19) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [撫州曹山元證禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987a.1.83) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1987b.2.19) · Pramāṇa