[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) › [虛堂和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000) › 4.5 # 虛堂和尚語錄 4.5 虛堂和尚語錄 4.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.4.5) 佛是大醫王，善觀眾病，眾生信而服之，則病無不療，蓋其從本已來，深中此病，自雪山六年，資質本草，到臘月八夜，其病既革，於無心處獲此方書，道：「奇哉！一切眾生，具有如來智慧德相，但以妄想執著，而不得證。」於是起道樹詣鹿林，三月調根，五人得度，則便能善用其藥也。非止燦大師矮師叔深中其膏肓必死之病，而西天此土具大眼目宗師皆有此病，直饒盧扁具透關眼、活人機，亦莫知其病源，而遞相印授，轉以此病，度脫大地眾生，使坐者立者俱獲輕利。今觀源師之病，得非是歟？不然，外寂中搖，形留神往，出此沒彼，勞而無功，則世間無常之病，時時現前，如來之藥，不得而救耶？儻若蹈著如來真病之本，自然病去藥除。如是受病，則病無不瘥矣。 > The Buddha is the Great Physician King, skilled at observing all ailments. If sentient beings believe and take his medicine, there is no illness that cannot be cured. For from the beginning, he himself was deeply afflicted with this illness. After six years on the Snow Mountains, examining materia medica, on the night of the eighth day of the twelfth month, his illness was thoroughly cured; in a state of no-mind he obtained this formulary, declaring, 'Remarkable! All sentient beings possess the wisdom and virtuous marks of the Tathāgata, but because of delusional clinging, they fail to realize it.' Thereupon, rising from beneath the Bodhi tree, he went to the Deer Park; in three months he regulated their faculties, and five people were liberated. Then he was able to use his medicine skillfully. Not only were Great Master Sengcan and the Short Uncle deeply afflicted in their vital organs with this fatal illness, but the ancestral masters with great eyes in both the Western Heaven and this land have all suffered from this illness. Even if Lu Ban and Bian Que had eyes that penetrate the barrier and the dynamic to bring people to life, they would not know the source of this illness. Handing down the seal to one another, they in turn used this illness to liberate the sentient beings of the great earth, bringing light and ease to both those sitting and those standing. Now observing Master Yuan's illness, could it not be this? Otherwise, tranquil on the outside but agitated within, the form remaining while the spirit wanders, emerging here and sinking there, laboring without achievement—then the worldly illness of impermanence would manifest at all times, and could the Tathāgata's medicine not save him? If you step upon the foundation of the Tathāgata's true illness, the illness will naturally vanish and the medicine be discarded. When illness is received like this, there is no illness that cannot be healed." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.4.4) - [Next: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.4.6) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000~en-mt.4.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2000.4.5) · Pramāṇa