宗鏡錄 100.67

100.67

答。前對增上慢人。未得為得。認虛妄為真實。執顛倒作圓常。為破情塵。權稱究竟。今論見性。豈言虛實耶。

Answer: "Earlier, addressing people of excessive pride who took what was unattained as attained, mistook the false for the real, and clung to inversion as the perfect and eternal, I provisionally declared it 'ultimate' in order to shatter the dust of emotional attachment. Now discussing the seeing of the nature, how could one speak of false or real?"