[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) › [六祖大師法寶壇經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008) › 1.46 # 六祖大師法寶壇經 1.46 六祖大師法寶壇經 1.46 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.46) 師復曰：「今於大梵寺說此頓教，普願法界眾生，言下見性成佛。」 > Practice the correct, and this is the Way. > > If one’s eyes have no aspiration for the Way, One will practice in obscurity and will not see the Way. If one is a true cultivator of the Way, One will not see the transgressions of the world. > > If one sees the errors of others, One’s own errors will rather be augmented. If one considers others to be in error and not oneself, One’s errors will automatically embody a transgression. > > Simply eliminate any inclination to see errors and > > Smash away the afflictions. > > Repugnance and attraction have nothing to do with the mind. > > Stretch out both legs and lie down. > > If you want to teach others, > > You must have expedient means yourself. > > Do not make them destroy their doubts— > > This is what allows the self-nature to become manifest. > > Buddhism’s being in the world > > Is not separate from the awareness of the world. > > To seek bodhi apart from the world > > Is like searching for the horn of a hare. > > Correct seeing (or views) is called to escape the world, > > False seeing is \[to be in\] the world. > > When false and correct are completely destroyed, > > The nature of bodhi is just so. > > This verse is the sudden teaching. > > It is also called the ship of the great Dharma. > > In delusion one can listen to the sutras for eons, but > > Enlightenment occurs in a moment. > > The master spoke again, “Now at Dafan Monastery I have preached this sudden teaching. I hope that all sentient beings throughout the dharmadhātu will at these words see the nature and accomplish buddhahood.” > > At that time everyone listening to the master’s preaching—Prefect Wei, the government staff, and the ordained and lay followers—all experienced enlightenment. Simultaneously they bowed and sighed, “How excellent! Whenever has a buddha appeared in the world in Lingnan!” > > Number Three: Questions One day Prefect Wei held a large vegetarian feast on behalf of the master. When the feast was over, the prefect invited the master to ascend the dais \[to give a sermon\]. The government staff, scholars, and commoners respectfully bowed once again and asked, “It was truly inconceivable (i.e., wonderful) for > > Number Three: Questions > > us to hear Your Reverence explain the Dharma, but now we have some slight doubts. We wish that, in your great compassion, you would make a special effort to explain these for us.” The master said, “If you have doubts, then ask, and I will explain them for you.” > > Lord Wei asked, “The doctrine Your Reverence has preached—it must be that of Great Master Bodhidharma?” The master said, “So it is.” Wei asked, “I have heard that when Bodhidharma first taught Emperor Wu of the Liang, the emperor asked, ‘Throughout my entire life I have constructed monasteries, had monks ordained, and held vegetarian feasts. What merit is there in these?’ Bodhidharma said, ‘In fact, these are without merit.’” \[Wei said,\] “Your disciple does not understand the principle of this, and I ask you to explain it for me.” > > The master said, “‘In fact, these are without merit’—do not doubt the words of the former sage. Emperor Wu was heterodox in mind and did not understand the correct Dharma. To build monasteries, have monks ordained, > — John R. McRae 2000, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch - [Previous: 1.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.45) - [Next: 1.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.47) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008~en-bdk.1.46) — John R. McRae 2000, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008~en-mt.1.46) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2008.1.46) · Pramāṇa