六祖大師法寶壇經 1.98

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僧智通，壽州安豐人。初看《楞伽經》。約千餘遍，而不會三身四智。禮師求解其義，師曰：「三身者，清淨法身，汝之性也；圓滿報身，汝之智也；千百億化身，汝之行也。若離本性，別說三身，即名有身無智；若悟三身無有自性，即明四智菩提。聽吾偈曰：

The monk Zhitong was a man of Anfeng in Shouzhou. At first he read the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra about a thousand times without understanding the trikāya and four wisdoms. Paying homage to the Master, he sought an explanation of their meaning. The Master said, "As for the trikāya: the pure dharmakāya is your nature; the complete saṃbhogakāya is your wisdom; the hundreds of millions of nirmāṇakāyas are your actions. If one speaks of the trikāya apart from the fundamental nature, it is called having kāyas without wisdom. If one awakens to the fact that the trikāya has no svabhāva, one understands the bodhi of the four wisdoms. Listen to my gāthā: