[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) › 36.40 # 宗鏡錄 36.40 宗鏡錄 36.40 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [36.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.40) 答。若約緣修用智成佛。真如但是境故。約緣修以明自也。真修正用真如一心為佛。萬行及智。但是福智莊嚴。故用真如一心為自。一切福智為他。若直了真如心即成佛者。是圓頓宗。若不了此心妄有修證者。是藏通等教灰斷之果。若依此心發行別修者。是別教大乘。與圓教即心便具者。所有行位功程。日劫相倍。故云即心是者疾。發心行者遲。 > Answer: If in terms of conditioning cultivation, one employs wisdom to become a buddha, because tathatā is merely the objective realm; this explains oneself in terms of conditioning cultivation. Real cultivation genuinely employs the one mind of tathatā as the buddha; the myriad practices and wisdom are merely the adornments of merit and wisdom; therefore, it employs the one mind of tathatā as oneself, and all merit and wisdom as other. If one directly realizes that the mind of tathatā is itself the attainment of buddhahood, this is the perfect and sudden school. If one does not realize this mind and falsely engages in cultivation and realization, these are the fruits of ash and extinction of the Pitaka and Common teachings, and so forth. If one relies on this mind to initiate practice and cultivate separately, this is the distinct teaching of the Mahāyāna. Compared with the perfect teaching where it is fully present in mind itself, all the practices, stages, effort, and stages of progress are multiplied between days and eons. Therefore it is said: 'Those for whom it is this very mind are swift; those who generate the mind to practice are slow.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 36.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.39) - [Next: 36.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.41) - [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.36.40) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.36.40) · Pramāṇa