少室六門 1.101

1.101

問。世間人種種學問。云何不得道。答。由見己故不得道。己者我也。至人逢苦不憂。遇樂不喜。由不見己故。所以不知苦樂者。由亡己故。得至虛無。己自尚亡。更有何物而不亡也。

Question: People of the world pursue various kinds of learning; why do they not attain the Way? Answer: Because they see a self, they do not attain the Way. The 'self' is the 'I'. When the perfected person encounters suffering, they do not grieve; when meeting joy, they do not rejoice—because they do not see a self. Thus, not knowing suffering and joy is due to forgetting the self, arriving at emptiness and non-being. When the self itself is already obliterated, what else is there that is not obliterated?