[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) › [大慧普覺禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a) › 12.98 # 大慧普覺禪師語錄 12.98 大慧普覺禪師語錄 12.98 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.98) 我讚我真，孰能委悉？火風煗動，地水堅濕，俱屬現量，擬心則失。就而明之，是妄非實，背而捐之，土木瓦石。吾說是言，如箭射的，離此別求，幻惑無識。 > I praise my own portrait—who can thoroughly comprehend it? / Fire and wind are warm and moving, earth and water are solid and wet; / They all belong to direct perception; if you deliberate in mind, you miss it. / To approach and elucidate it is false and unreal; / To turn away and abandon it is soil, wood, tile, and stone. / My uttering these words is like an arrow hitting the target; / If you seek elsewhere apart from this, you are deluded, bewildered, and witless. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.97) - [Next: 12.99](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.99) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a~en-mt.12.98) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.98) · Pramāṇa