[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) › 80.27 # 宗鏡錄 80.27 宗鏡錄 80.27 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [80.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.27) 答。非一非異。能契一乘之門。亦有亦無。不謗三因之性。如大涅槃經云。佛言。善男子。若有說言。一切眾生。定有佛性。常樂我淨。不作不生。煩惱因緣。故不可見。當知是人。謗佛法僧。若有說言。一切眾生。都無佛性。猶如兔角。從方便生。本無今有。已有還無。當知是人。謗佛法僧。若有說言。眾生非有如虛空。非無如兔角。何以故。虛空常故。兔角無故。是故得言。亦有亦無。有破兔角。無破虛空。如是說者。不謗三寶。 > Answer: Being neither identical nor different, it can accord with the gate of the One Vehicle; being both existent and non-existent, it does not slander the nature of the three causes. As the \*Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra\* states: “The Buddha said: ‘Good son, if anyone says that all sentient beings definitively possess the Buddha-nature—permanent, blissful, self, and pure, unmade and unarisen, and unseen only due to the conditions of kleśas—you should know that such a person slanders the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha. If anyone says that all sentient beings completely lack the Buddha-nature, like a rabbit’s horns, that it arises from skillful means, originally non-existent and now existing, and once existing becoming non-existent again, you should know that such a person slanders the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha. If anyone says that for sentient beings it is not existent like empty space and not non-existent like a rabbit’s horns—why? because empty space is permanent, and a rabbit’s horns are non-existent—therefore one can say it is both existent and non-existent: existence refutes the rabbit’s horns, and non-existence refutes empty space—one who speaks thus does not slander the Three Jewels.’” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 80.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.26) - [Next: 80.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.28) - [Up: 80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.80.27) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.80.27) · Pramāṇa