[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) › [南宗頓教最上大乘摩訶般若波羅蜜經六祖惠能大師於韶州大梵寺施法壇經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007) › 1.37 # 南宗頓教最上大乘摩訶般若波羅蜜經六祖惠能大師於韶州大梵寺施法壇經 1.37 南宗頓教最上大乘摩訶般若波羅蜜經六祖惠能大師於韶州大梵寺施法壇經 1.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007.1.37) 「善知識！我於忍和尚處，一聞言下大悟，頓見真如本性。是故以頓悟教法流行後代，令學道者頓悟菩提，各自觀心，令自本性頓悟。若不能自悟者，須覓大善知識示道見性。何名大善知識？解最上乘法，直示正路，是大善知識，是大因緣。所為示道，令得見性。一切善法，皆因大善知識能發起故。三世諸佛十二部經，在人性中本自具有。不能自性悟，須得善知識示道見性。若自悟者，不假外求善知識。若取外求善知識望得解脫，無有是處。識自心內善知識，即得解脫。若自心邪迷，妄念顛倒，外善知識即有教授，救不可得。汝若不得自悟，當起般若觀照，剎那間妄念俱滅，即是自真正善知識，一悟即至佛地。自性心地，以智惠觀照，內外明澈，識自本心。若識本心，即是解脫。既得解脫，即是般若三昧。悟般若三昧，即是無念。何名無念？無念法者，見一切法，不著一切法；遍一切處，不著一切處。常淨自性，使六賊從六門走出，於六塵中不離不染，來去自由，即是般若三昧，自在解脫，名無念行。莫百物不思，當令念絕，即是法縛，即名邊見。悟無念法者，萬法盡通；悟無念法者，見諸佛境界；悟無念頓法者，至佛位地。 > "Kalyāṇamitras! When I was with Master \[Hong\]ren, upon hearing one sentence I had a great awakening and suddenly saw the original nature of tathatā. Therefore I have caused the Dharma teaching of sudden awakening to circulate for later generations, so that students of the Way may suddenly awaken to bodhi, each examine their own mind, and cause their own original nature to suddenly awaken. If you cannot awaken by yourself, you must seek a great kalyāṇamitra to indicate the Way and see the nature. What is called a great kalyāṇamitra? One who understands the Dharma of the Supreme Vehicle and directly indicates the correct path is a great kalyāṇamitra, a great causal condition. That which is called indicating the Way causes one to attain seeing the nature. This is because all good phenomena are able to be brought forth by a great kalyāṇamitra. The Buddhas of the three periods of time and the twelve divisions of scriptures are originally fully present within human nature. If you cannot awaken to the own-nature by yourself, you must find a kalyāṇamitra to indicate the Way and see the nature. If you awaken by yourself, you do not rely on seeking a kalyāṇamitra externally. If you insist on seeking a kalyāṇamitra externally in the hope of attaining liberation, there is no such possibility. Recognize the kalyāṇamitra within your own mind, and you will attain liberation. If your own mind is deluded with false thoughts and inversions, even if an external kalyāṇamitra gives instruction, you cannot be saved. If you cannot attain awakening by yourself, you should give rise to contemplative illumination with prajñā; in a kṣaṇa, false thoughts are all extinguished, and this is your own true kalyāṇamitra; with one awakening, you immediately arrive at the Buddha ground. In the mind-ground of the own-nature, through contemplative illumination with wisdom, inside and outside are bright and lucid, and you recognize your own original mind. If you recognize your original mind, this is liberation. Having attained liberation, this is the prajñā-samādhi. Awakening to the prajñā-samādhi is being free from thought. What is called being free from thought? The Dharma of being free from thought means seeing all phenomena without clinging to any phenomena; pervading all places without clinging to any places. Constantly purifying the own-nature, causing the six thieves to run out from the six gates, neither departing from nor being tainted among the six dusts, coming and going freely—this is the prajñā-samādhi, sovereign liberation, and is called the practice of being free from thought. Do not think of nothing at all and cause thoughts to be cut off; that is Dharma-bondage and is called extreme view. One who awakens to the Dharma of being free from thought completely penetrates the myriad phenomena; one who awakens to the Dharma of being free from thought sees the realm of the Buddhas; one who awakens to the sudden Dharma of being free from thought arrives at the Buddha stage. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007.1.36) - [Next: 1.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007.1.38) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007~en-mt.1.37) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [六祖大師法寶壇經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.43) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007.1.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2007.1.37) · Pramāṇa