[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) › [汾陽無德禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992) › 3.8 # 汾陽無德禪師語錄 3.8 汾陽無德禪師語錄 3.8 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.3.8) 夫法師者，登狻猊座，廣敷妙義，談二空理，理契圓常，開頓漸之門，擇聖凡之慧，隨方處藥，量器堪任，知熟知根，甄邪甄正，煥然能所，明暢主賓，因果不昧於人間，道化罔迷於天界，擊大法鼓豈廢津梁，非四依三德之高流，寧得弘通於大教？除非達士，頗測淺深，堪作當人，始稱導誘者也。 > As for the Dharma master: ascending the lion throne, he broadly unfurls the wondrous meaning and discusses the principle of the two kinds of emptiness; the principle accords with the perfect and constant. He opens the gates of the sudden and gradual, discriminates the wisdom of the noble and the ordinary, dispenses medicines according to the circumstance, measures the capacity of the vessel for duty, knows the ripe and knows the root, and sifts the heterodox from the orthodox. Radiant are subject and object; distinct and lucid are host and guest. Cause and effect are not obscured in the human realm; the transformation of the Way is not lost in the heavenly spheres. Striking the great Dharma drum, how could he abandon the bridge and ford? Were he not a superior figure of the four reliances and three virtues, how could he broadly propagate the Great Teaching? Unless one is an attained person, thoroughly gauging the shallow and the deep and fit to be the very person, only then is he called a guide and leader. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.3.7) - [Next: 3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.3.9) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992~en-mt.3.8) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.3.8) · Pramāṇa