[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) › [圓悟佛果禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997) › 14.21 # 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.21 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.21 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [14.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.14.21) 破有法王出現世間，隨眾生欲種種說法，將知所說皆為方便，只為破執、破疑、破解路、破我見，若無許多惡覺惡見，佛亦不必出現，而況說種種法耶？古人得旨之後，向深山茆茨石室，折脚鐺子煮飯喫十年二十年，大忘人世、永謝塵寰、今時不敢望如此，但只鞱名晦跡守本分，作箇骨律錐老衲，以自契所證，隨己力量受用，消遣舊業融通宿習；或有餘力推以及人，結般若緣，鍊磨自己脚根純熟，正如荒草裏撥剔一箇半箇，同知有共脫生死轉益未求，以報佛祖深恩。抑不得已，霜露果熟推將出世，應緣順適開拓人天，終不操心於有求，何況依倚貴勢，作流俗阿師舉止，欺凡罔聖苟利圖名，作無間業縱無機緣？只恁度世亦無業果，真出塵羅漢耶。 > The Dharma King who dismantles being appears in the world and preaches diverse teachings according to the desires of sentient beings. You should know that all that is preached is an expedient, merely meant to break attachments, break doubts, break paths of intellectual understanding, and break the view of self. If there were not so many pernicious perceptions and views, the Buddha would not have needed to appear, let alone preach diverse teachings. After the ancients grasped the purport, they went into deep mountains, thatched huts, and rock grottos, boiling rice to eat in a broken-legged pot for ten or twenty years, completely forgetting human society and bidding eternal farewell to the dust of the world. Nowadays we dare not expect such \[conduct\]; one should simply conceal one's name, obscure one's traces, keep to one's fundamental lot, and be an old monk like an awl in a bone, according in oneself with what has been realized. Enjoy it according to one's own capacity, expelling old karma and dissolving past habits. If there is leftover strength, extend it to others to establish prajñā affinities, refining and polishing one's own foundation until it is fully seasoned, just like stirring through the wild weeds to turn up one or half an individual who also knows of this, together escaping birth and death and further seeking what has not yet been sought, so as to repay the deep kindness of the Buddhas and Patriarchs. If it cannot be helped, and, like frost and dew when the fruit is ripe, one is thrust forward to appear in the world, one responds to affinities smoothly, opening up \[the Way\] for humans and devas, without ever setting one's mind on seeking anything. How much less would one rely on prestige and power, adopting the manners of a vulgar master, deceiving the ordinary, slighting the sages, illicitly seeking profit and scheming for fame, creating uninterrupted karma even without karmic affinities? Simply passing through the world like that, without karmic retributions—would one truly be an arhat who has left the dust behind? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 14.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.14.20) - [Next: 14.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.14.22) - [Up: 14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.14) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997~en-mt.14.21) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.14.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.14.21) · Pramāṇa