[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) › 49.57 # 宗鏡錄 49.57 宗鏡錄 49.57 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [49.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.49.57) 答。此識不守自性。隨緣變時。似有流轉。而實無生滅。亦非去來。如湛水起漚。漚全是水。華生空界。華全是空。識性未常去來。虛空何曾生滅。如馬祖大師云。若此生所經行之處。及自家田宅處所。父母兄弟等。舉心見者。此心本來不去。莫道見彼事則言心去。心性本無來去。亦無起滅。所經行處。及自家父母眷屬等。今所見者。由昔時見故。皆是第八含藏識中。憶持在心。非今心去。亦名種子識。亦名含藏識。貯積昔所見者。識性虛通。念念自見。名巡舊識。亦名流注生死。此念念自離。不用斷滅。若滅此心。名斷佛種性。此心本是真如之體。甚深如來藏。而與七識俱。傅大士云。心性無來亦無去。緣慮流轉實無停。又心無處所。故云無停。心體實無來去。昔所行處。了了知見。性自虛通。體無去住。不用除滅此心。若識此心。本是佛體。不須帕今有。不識心人。將此為妄。終日除滅。亦不可得滅。縱令得滅。證聲聞果。亦非究竟。只如過去諸佛恒沙劫事。見如今日。真如之性。靈通自在。照用無方。不可同無情物。佛性是生氣物。不可兀爾無知。但無心量。種種施為。如幻如化。如機關木人。畢竟無有心量。於一切處無執繫。無住著。無所求。於一切時中。更無一法可得。 > Answer: This consciousness does not preserve its own nature; when it changes in accordance with conditions, it appears to have transmigration, but in reality there is no arising or ceasing, nor going or coming. It is like clear water giving rise to bubbles: the bubbles are entirely water; like flowers arising in the sky: the flowers are entirely empty space. The nature of consciousness has never come or gone; when has empty space ever arisen or ceased? As Master Mazu said: "If, regarding the places walked in this life, one's own fields, houses, places, parents, siblings, and so forth, one gives rise to a thought and sees them, this mind originally did not go. Do not say that seeing those things means the mind went. The nature of mind originally has no coming or going, nor arising or ceasing. The places walked, one's own parents, relatives, and so on that are seen now: because they were seen in the past, they are all remembered and held in the mind within the eighth storehouse consciousness (ālayavijñāna); it is not that the present mind goes there. It is also called the seed consciousness, and also called the storehouse consciousness, storing what was seen in the past. The nature of consciousness is empty and open; moment by moment it sees by itself, which is called the consciousness that revisits the old, and also called the flowing stream of saṃsāra. This, moment by moment, separates of itself; there is no need to sever or extinguish it. If one extinguishes this mind, that is called severing the lineage of the Buddha. This mind originally is the substance of tathatā, the profound tathāgatagarbha, yet it is together with the seven consciousnesses." Mahāsattva Fu said: "The nature of mind neither comes nor goes; / Transmigrating in cognitive conditioning, it truly does not stop." Furthermore, because the mind has no location, it is said "it does not stop." The substance of mind truly has no coming or going. The places walked in the past are clearly known and seen; its nature is spontaneously empty and open, its substance has no going or staying. There is no need to eliminate or extinguish this mind. If one recognizes this mind, it is originally the body of the Buddha; there is no need to fear that it exists now. People who do not recognize the mind take this to be delusion and spend all day eliminating and extinguishing it, yet it cannot be extinguished. Even if it could be extinguished and one realized the fruit of a śrāvaka, it would still not be ultimate. It is just as with the events of the past buddhas for kalpas like the sands of the Ganges: seeing them is like today. The nature of tathatā is wondrously penetrating and unobstructed, illuminating and functioning without limits; it cannot be equated with inanimate things. Buddha-nature is a living thing; it cannot be inert and without awareness. It is just without mental measure: various operations and actions are like an illusion, like a transformation, like a mechanical wooden marionette; ultimately there is no mental measure. In all places there is no attachment or bondage, no staying or grasping, no seeking. In all times, not a single phenomenon can be attained. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 49.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.49.56) - [Next: 49.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.49.58) - [Up: 49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.49) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.49.57) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.49.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.49.57) · Pramāṇa