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六祖大師法寶壇經 1.143

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1.143

"Nothing whatsoever has the real; / do not regard it as real. / If you see it as real, / that seeing is entirely unreal. / If one can possess the real oneself, / departing from the false, the mind is real. / When one's own mind does not depart from the false, / there is no real; where could the real be? / The sentient are able to move; / the insentient do not move. / If you cultivate the practice of non-movement, / it is the same as the non-movement of the insentient. / If you seek the true non-movement, / upon movement there is non-movement. / Non-movement [that is merely] non-movement / is insentient, lacking the Buddha-seed. / Being able to skillfully distinguish marks, / in the primary meaning one does not move. / Merely having such a view / is the functioning of tathatā. / I announce to all students of the Way: / make an effort and apply your intent; / do not, at the gate of the Mahāyāna, / cling instead to the wisdom of birth and death. / If there is accord under these words, / then discuss the Buddha's meaning together; / if in truth there is no accord, / join your palms and make them glad. / This lineage originally has no dispute; / disputing loses the intent of the Way. / Clinging to contradictory, disputatious Dharma doors, / svabhāva enters birth and death."

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