[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) › 23.19 # 大慧普覺禪師語錄 23.19 大慧普覺禪師語錄 23.19 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [23.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.23.19) 既辦此心，要理會這一著子，先須立決定志，觸境逢緣，或逆或順，要把得定作得主，不受種種邪說，日用應緣時，常以無常迅速生死二字，貼在鼻孔尖頭上，又如欠了人萬百貫債無錢還得，被債主守定門戶，憂愁怕怖千思萬量，求還不可得。若常存此心，則有趣向分。若半進半退，半信半不信，不如三家村裏無智愚夫。何以故？為渠百不知百不解，却無許多惡知惡覺作障礙，一味守愚而已。古德有言：「研窮至理。以悟為則。」近年以來多有不信悟底宗師，說悟為誑謼人，說悟為建立，說悟為把定，說悟為落在第二頭，披却師子皮，作野干鳴者，不可勝數。不具擇法眼者，往往遭此輩幻惑，不可不審而思思而察也。此是宗師指接群迷，令見月亡指底第三箇樣子。妙明居士欲跳出生死窟，作是說者名為正說，作他說者名為邪說。思之。 > Having prepared this mind, if you wish to understand this single move, you must first establish a resolute determination. Coming into contact with objects and encountering conditions, whether adverse or favorable, you must take hold firmly and be master, not accepting all manner of heterodox teachings. In daily life responding to conditions, constantly stick the two words 'impermanence is swift' and 'birth and death' right on the tip of your nostrils. It is also like owing someone a debt of hundreds of thousands of strings of cash with no money to repay, while the creditor guards your doorway; in grief and fear, pondering ten thousand things, you seek repayment but cannot manage it. If you constantly maintain this mind, then you will have a share in making progress. If you half advance and half retreat, half believing and half disbelieving, you are not as good as an ignorant fool in a three-house village. Why is this? Because he knows nothing and understands nothing at all, yet he lacks so many evil views and evil perceptions to create obstacles; he merely adheres to foolishness entirely. An ancient worthy said: 'Investigate the ultimate principle thoroughly; take awakening as the norm.' In recent years there are many ancestral masters who do not believe in awakening; they say that awakening is deceiving people, that awakening is an establishment, that awakening is holding firm, that awakening is falling into the secondary; wearing lion skins while uttering the yelps of jackals, they are beyond count. Those who lack the eye of Dharma discrimination are often bewitched by this sort; one cannot fail to reflect and examine with care. This is the third model of an ancestral master pointing out and receiving the deluded multitude, causing them to see the moon and forget the finger. Layman Miaoming, wishing to leap out of the pit of birth and death: those who make this statement are called correct speakers; those who make other statements are called heterodox speakers. Reflect on this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 23.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.23.18) - [Next: 23.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.23.20) - [Up: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.23) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a~en-mt.23.19) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.23.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.23.19) · Pramāṇa