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# 宗鏡錄 91.3

宗鏡錄 91.3

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [91.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.91.3)

答。只為眾生不了自他唯心。橫生彼此。若自達真空。則諸佛終不出世。菩薩亦無功夫。

> Answer: It is simply because sentient beings do not understand that self and other are mind-only, and arbitrarily give rise to \[the dichotomy of\] this and that. If they themselves penetrated true emptiness, then the buddhas would never appear in the world, and bodhisattvas would have no work to do.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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