[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) › [禪源諸詮集都序](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015) › 1.12.5 # 禪源諸詮集都序 1.12.5 禪源諸詮集都序 1.12.5 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015.1.12.5) 謂承上傳授方便皆先開示本性。 方令依性修禪。 性不易悟多由執相。 故欲顯性先須破執。 破執方便須凡聖俱泯功過齊祛。 戒即無犯無持。 禪即無定無亂。 三十二相都是空花。 三十七品皆為夢幻。 意使心無所著。 方可修禪。 後學淺識。 便但只執此言為究竟道。 又以修習之門人多放逸。 故復廣說欣厭毀責貪恚讚歎勤儉調身調息麁細次第。 後人聞此又迷本覺之用。 便一向執相。 唯根利志堅者。 始終事師方得悟修之旨。 其有性浮淺者。 纔聞一意即謂已足。 仍恃小慧便為人師。 未窮本末多成偏執。 故頓漸門下相見如仇讎。 南北宗中相敵如楚漢。 洗足之誨。 摸象之喻。 驗於此矣。 今之所述。 豈欲別為一本集而會之。 務在伊圓三點。 三點各別既不成伊。 三宗若乖焉能作佛。 故知欲識傳授藥病。 須見三宗不乖。 須解三種佛教（前敘有人難云。 禪師何得講說。 余今總以此十意答也。 故初已敘西域祖師皆弘經論耳也）。 > That is to say, the upāyas handed down from the past all first reveal the fundamental nature, and only then instruct one to cultivate dhyāna in reliance on that nature. The nature is not easily awakened to, mostly because of clinging to phenomenal marks. Therefore, wishing to reveal the nature, one must first break attachments. As for the upāyas of breaking attachments, ordinary and holy must both be extinguished, and merit and demerit equally dispelled. Precepts are without violating and without keeping; dhyāna is without stability and without distraction. The thirty-two marks are all flowers in the sky; the thirty-seven factors are entirely dreams and illusions. The aim is to make the mind have no attachments, and only then can one cultivate dhyāna. Later students of shallow understanding then merely cling to these words as the ultimate path. Furthermore, because in the gate of practice people are often lax, they then extensively explain aversion and attraction, disparaging and rebuking greed and anger, praising diligence and frugality, regulating the body and regulating the breath, and coarse and fine stages. Later people hearing this again become confused about the function of original awakening, and completely cling to phenomenal marks. Only those of sharp faculties and firm determination who serve their masters from beginning to end attain the essential meaning of awakening and cultivation. Those of shallow and frivolous nature think it sufficient upon hearing merely one point; further relying on petty intellect, they act as teachers to others. Failing to fathom the root and branch, they mostly form one-sided attachments. Consequently, disciples of the sudden and gradual gates view each other as bitter enemies, and the southern and northern schools oppose each other like Chu and Han. The admonition of washing the feet and the analogy of feeling the elephant are verified here! Does my present work wish to set up a separate collection to harmonize them? Its essential purpose lies in the three dots of the letter 'i'. If the three dots are separate, they do not form the letter 'i'; if the three schools are in conflict, how can one become a Buddha? Thus we know that if one wishes to recognize the medicine and illness in the transmission, one must see that the three schools do not conflict, and one must understand the three kinds of Buddhist doctrinal teachings. (Earlier, it was related that someone objected, 'How can a Chan master deliver lectures?' I now answer all these difficulties with these ten points. Therefore, at the outset I already related that the patriarchs in the Western regions all propagated the sūtras and treatises.) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015.1.12.4) - [Next: 1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015.1.13) - [Up: 1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015.1.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015~en-mt.1.12.5) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015.1.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2015.1.12.5) · Pramāṇa