[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) › 41.3 # 宗鏡錄 41.3 宗鏡錄 41.3 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [41.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.41.3) 答。向之即背。近之即離。取而復失。急而復遲。千聖拱手而無計校。一門深入而忘覺知。此是心中自證法門。非待問答而得。如法華經偈云。我意難可測。亦無能問者。無問而自說。稱歎所行道。所以先德云。諸祖共傳諸佛清淨自覺聖智真如妙心。不同世間文字所得。若有悟斯真實法性。此人則能了知三世諸佛。及一切眾生同一法界。本來平等。常恒不變。先曹山和尚偈云。從緣薦得相應疾。就體消機道却遲。瞥起本來無處所。吾師暫說不思議。故知千聖皆目此一念心起時了不可得。是真不思議。離此決定別無殊勝。如是了者。豈非疾乎。何待消融。方能見道。若不直見其事。欲以意解情求。如將兔角之弓。駕龜毛之箭。以無手之者。擬射碎須彌之山。似傾壓沙之油。點無煙之火。貯漏巵之內。欲照破鐵圍之闇。徒役狂心。無有是處。 > Answer: To face toward it is to turn your back on it; to approach it is to depart from it. Grasp it and it is lost again; rush toward it and it is all the more delayed. A thousand sages clasp their hands, having no scheme or calculation; entering deeply through the one gate, they forget awareness and knowing. This is the Dharma gate of personal realization within the mind; it is not attained through questions and answers. As the Lotus Sūtra verse says: "My intention is difficult to measure, / and there is none who can question it. / Unasked, I preach it of myself, / praising the path I have walked." Therefore, the ancient virtuous ones said: "The patriarchs together transmitted the pure, self-awakened, noble wisdom, and the tathatā wondrous mind of all buddhas; it is not something attained through worldly written words." If one awakens to this real Dharma-nature, this person can then fully know that the buddhas of the three times and all sentient beings share the same single dharmadhātu, originally equal, constant, and unchanging. The former reverend Caoshan said in a verse: "Recognizing it in accord with conditions, integration is swift; / dwelling upon the substance to extinguish mental activity, the path is delayed. / Suddenly arising, originally without location; / my master temporarily spoke of the inconceivable." Therefore we know that the thousand sages all point to this single thought at its arising as completely unobtainable; this is truly the inconceivable. Apart from this, there is definitely no other superiority. For one who understands like this, how could it not be swift? Why wait for melting away before being able to see the path? If one does not see the matter directly and wishes to seek it through conceptual understanding and emotional calculation, it is like taking a bow of rabbit horns, mounting an arrow of turtle hairs, and having a person without hands intend to shoot and shatter Mount Sumeru; or like pouring out oil pressed from sand, lighting a smokeless fire, storing it within a leaking vessel, and wishing to illuminate and shatter the darkness of the Iron Encircling Mountains—one merely expends the wild mind in vain, and there is no truth in it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 41.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.41.2) - [Next: 41.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.41.4) - [Up: 41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.41) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.41.3) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.41.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.41.3) · Pramāṇa