[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) › 36.30 # 宗鏡錄 36.30 宗鏡錄 36.30 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [36.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.30) 答。為未達本無生。而欲向外妄修者。令自內觀。冥合真性。如永嘉集云。誡其疎怠者。然渡海先須上船。非船何以能渡。修心必須入觀。非觀何以明心。心尚未明。相應何日。此勸守愚空坐。不慕進修者。如欲渡關津。非船靡濟。將窮生死。無智焉明。又云。妙契玄原者。夫悟心之士。寧執觀而迷旨。達教之人。豈滯言而惑理。理明則言語道斷。何言之能議。旨會則心行處滅。何觀之能思。心言不能思議者。可謂妙契寰中矣。斯乃得旨之人。奚須言境即屆寶所。終不問程。已見玉蟾。寧當執指。故般若吟云。見月休觀指。歸家罷問程。即心心是佛。何佛更堪成。 > Answer: For the sake of those who have not realized original unproducedness and desire to practice falsely toward external things, causing them to contemplate internally and secretly tally with the true nature. As the Yongjia ji states, in admonishing the neglectful and indolent: 'Yet to cross the ocean, one must first board a boat; without a boat, how can one cross? To cultivate the mind, one must enter contemplation; without contemplation, how can the mind be clarified? If the mind is not yet clarified, when will there be accord?' This encourages those who cling to ignorance and sit in vain without aspiring to advance in cultivation, like wishing to cross a mountain pass or ford: without a boat, nothing can ferry one across; if one is about to exhaust birth and death, without wisdom how can it be clarified? It also states, regarding the wondrous tallying with the dark source: 'Now, would a person who understands the mind cling to contemplation and lose the point? How could one who has penetrated the teachings be stuck on words and confused about the principle? When the principle is clear, the path of words is cut off—what words could debate it? When the point is realized, the place of mental activity is extinguished—what contemplation could ponder it? That which cannot be conceived or spoken of by mind and words can be called wondrously tallying within the universe.' Such a person has attained the point; why would they need words and objects? Having arrived at the place of jewels, one no longer asks the way; having already seen the jade hare \[of the moon\], would one cling to the pointing finger? Therefore the Song of Prajñā says: 'Seeing the moon, stop looking at the finger; returning home, cease asking the way. Mind itself is Buddha; what other Buddha could be accomplished?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 36.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.29) - [Next: 36.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.31) - [Up: 36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.36.30) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.30) · Pramāṇa