[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) › 28.17 # 大慧普覺禪師語錄 28.17 大慧普覺禪師語錄 28.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [28.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.28.17) 示諭：「華嚴重重法界，斷非虛語。既非虛語，必有分付處，必有自肯處，讀至此嗟歎久之。」士大夫平昔所學，臨死生禍福之際，手足俱露者，十常八九。考其行事，不如三家村裏省事漢，富貴貧賤不能汩其心。以是較之，智不如愚，貴不如賤者多矣。何以故？生死禍福現前，那時不容偽故也。大參相公平昔所學，已見於行事，臨禍福之際，如精金入火愈見明耀，又決定知華嚴重重法界斷非虛語，則定不作他物想矣。其餘七顛八倒，或逆或順，或正或邪，亦非他物，願公常作此觀，妙喜亦在其中，異日相從於寂寞之濱，結當當來世香火因緣，成就重重法界，以實其事，豈小補哉？更須下箇註脚，即今這一絡索，切忌作寓言指物會。一笑。 > Your letter states: 'The multilayered dharmadhātu of the Avataṃsaka is definitely not empty words. Since they are not empty words, there must be a point of entrustment, and there must be a point of self-affirmation. Reading to this point, I sighed in admiration for a long time.' When scholar-officials face life, death, misfortune, and fortune, eight or nine out of ten reveal their utter helplessness in what they have studied throughout their lives. Examining their conduct, they are inferior to a simple man in a three-family village whose mind cannot be agitated by wealth, rank, poverty, or lowliness. Comparing them in this way, there are many cases where the wise are inferior to the foolish, and the noble are inferior to the base. Why is this? Because when birth, death, misfortune, and fortune appear before them, that moment allows for no pretense. What you, Minister Participator, have studied throughout your life is already manifest in your actions; when facing misfortune and fortune, like refined gold entering fire, you appear all the more bright and dazzling. Moreover, you decisively know that the multilayered dharmadhātu of the Avataṃsaka is definitely not empty words; thus, you surely do not conceive it as another thing. The rest of the ups and downs, whether adverse or favorable, proper or perverse, are likewise not other things. I hope that you will constantly maintain this contemplation. Miaoxi is also within it. On another day, following one another to the shores of solitude, we shall form an affinity of incense and lamp for future lives, bringing the multilayered dharmadhātu to completion and making its reality actual—how could this be a small benefit? One must further add a footnote: this very tangle of words right now must strictly not be understood as an allegory pointing to things. A smile. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 28.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.28.16) - [Next: 28.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.28.18) - [Up: 28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.28) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a~en-mt.28.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.28.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.28.17) · Pramāṇa