[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) › 67.15 # 宗鏡錄 67.15 宗鏡錄 67.15 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [67.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.67.15) 答。奇哉可愍。薄福愚人。不能信解大乘法義。若有能見。可見所見。能見既無。誰見所見。以諸能見。不能自審知自有體。亦不審他。於審察時。能見所見皆無所有。是故不應執現見法。決定有體。以迴心時。諸所緣境。皆虛假故。所以者何。起憶念時。實無見等種種境界。但隨因緣。自心變似見等種種境相而生。以所憶念。非真實故。唯有虛假憶念名生。如曾更諸法體相迴心追憶。故名為念。當憶念時。曾所更境。皆無有故。能念亦無。而名念者。隨順慣習顛倒諸見。假名施設。由此念故。世間有情。妄起種種分別諍論。競執諸法自性差別。沒惡見泥。不能自出。若無所見。亦無所聞。是則一切都無所有。云何今時。編石為筏。 > Answer: How wonderful, and how pitiable! Foolish persons of meager merit cannot have faith in or understand the Dharma-principles of the Mahāyāna. If there were an agent of seeing, there could be an object seen. Since an agent of seeing does not exist, who sees the object seen? Because the agents of seeing cannot examine and know that they themselves have an inherent substance, nor can they examine others. At the time of examination, both the agent of seeing and the object seen are completely non-existent. Therefore, one should not cling to directly seen phenomena as definitely having substance, because when the mind reflects back, all perceived objects are fictional. Why is this? When memory arises, there are in truth no various objects of sight and so forth; it is merely that in accordance with causes and conditions, one's own mind transforms into what appears to be various object-characteristics of sight and so forth, and arises. Because what is remembered is not real, only a fictional name of memory arises. Like reflecting back to recall the substances and characteristics of phenomena previously experienced, it is therefore called mindfulness. When one remembers, the previously experienced objects are completely absent; the agent of remembering is also absent, yet it is called 'mindfulness' as a provisional designation in accordance with habitual inverted views. Due to this mindfulness, worldly sentient beings falsely give rise to various conceptual discriminations and disputes, competing to cling to the intrinsic natures and distinctions of phenomena, sinking into the mire of evil views, unable to get out themselves. If there is nothing seen and nothing heard, then all is completely non-existent. How could one nowadays weave stones into a raft? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 67.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.67.14) - [Next: 67.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.67.16) - [Up: 67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.67) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.67.15) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.67.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.67.15) · Pramāṇa