[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) › [宗鏡錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016) › 23.41 # 宗鏡錄 23.41 宗鏡錄 23.41 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [23.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.23.41) 答。一一諸色。但唯心故。心外無法。豈唯心滅而色猶存。佛但記有情。攝無情也。譬如幻事。要藉幻心。心在幻中。能持幻事。若其心滅。幻事同無。故但滅心。不復滅事。眾生色心。亦復如是。皆如幻相。一切外境。從幻心生。豈猶滅心而存幻色。此即有情得記。無情亦然。是故無情。不須別記。玄義格云。真佛者。從初發心。即體一真法界。全同古佛。相極三際。全現一塵。性海無邊。表裏不可得。信此法故。名為發心。心無異念。故名為證。證成名佛。的無方處。又圓教入初住人。心同法界。神無方所。何用天衣天座。四眾圍繞。夫立劫國名號授記作佛者。為引未發心者令嚮慕耳。若愛著身土。情未盡耳。所以華嚴論云。初發心時。便成正覺。於一剎那際。皆得此之法。不許於剎那際外有別時。當知即非本法故。若有人於佛法中見佛成道。作劫量延促處所而生見者。信亦未成。未論修道。若解者。本來全得。處迷者。自沒輪迴。又云。但有所見境界。及如來名號。總是自心佛果所會之法。若自心不會。對面無覩見之期。 > Answer: Because each and every form is mind-only, there is no phenomenon outside the mind. How could it be that mind alone is extinguished while form still remains? The Buddha merely predicts sentient beings, which subsumes the insentient. For example, an illusion requires an illusory mind; with the mind present within the illusion, it can uphold illusory phenomena. If that mind is extinguished, the illusory phenomena vanish along with it. Therefore, one only extinguishes the mind, and does not separately extinguish the phenomena. The form and mind of sentient beings are also like this; all are like illusory characteristics. All external objects arise from the illusory mind; how could the mind be extinguished while illusory form remains? Thus, when sentient beings receive the prediction, the insentient are also likewise. Therefore, the insentient do not require a separate prediction. The standard of the Profound Meaning states: 'As for the true Buddha, from the initial generation of the mind he directly embodies the one true dharmadhātu, entirely identical with the ancient Buddhas. His characteristics exhaust the three time periods, fully manifesting in a single dust mote. The ocean of nature is boundless, interior and exterior cannot be found. Having faith in this Dharma is called generating the mind. The mind having no different thoughts is called realization. Having realized and accomplished, one is named a Buddha, definitely without local direction. Furthermore, a person who enters the first dwelling of the round teaching has a mind identical with the dharmadhātu, and his spirit has no local direction. What need has he of heavenly garments and heavenly thrones, or of the fourfold assembly surrounding him? Establishing kalpas, lands, and names to bestow predictions of attaining Buddhahood is done to guide those who have not yet generated the mind, causing them to yearn for it. If one is attached to bodies and lands, sentiments are not yet exhausted.' Therefore, the Treatise on the Avataṃsakasūtra says: 'At the time of first generating the mind, one immediately accomplishes right awakening; within the limit of a single kṣaṇa, one obtains all of this Dharma. It is not permitted that there be another time outside the limit of a kṣaṇa; one should know that \[otherwise\] it would not be the fundamental Dharma.' If someone, within the Buddha Dharma, sees a Buddha attain the path and forms views based on the extension or brevity of kalpa measures or places, his faith is not yet established, not to mention cultivating the path. For those who understand, it is fundamentally obtained in full; those dwelling in delusion submerge themselves in saṃsāra. It also says: 'Whatever realms are seen and Tathāgata names \[heard\] are all phenomena understood by one's own mind's Buddha-fruit. If one's own mind does not understand, even face to face there will be no time of seeing.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 23.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.23.40) - [Next: 23.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.23.42) - [Up: 23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.23) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.23.41) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.23.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.23.41) · Pramāṇa