[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) › 94.9 # 宗鏡錄 94.9 宗鏡錄 94.9 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [94.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.94.9) 圓覺經云。一時婆伽婆。入於神通大光明藏。三昧正受。一切如來光嚴住持。是諸眾生清淨覺地。身心寂滅。平等本際。圓滿十方。不二隨順。於不二境。現諸淨土。又云。善男子。一切眾生種種幻化。皆生如來圓覺妙心。猶如空華。從空而有。幻華雖滅。空性不壞。眾生幻心。還依幻滅。諸幻盡滅。覺心不動。依幻說覺。亦名為幻。若說有覺。猶未離幻。說無覺者。亦復如是。是故幻滅。名為不動。善男子。一切菩薩。及末世眾生。應當遠離一切幻化虛妄境界。由堅執持遠離心故。心如幻者。亦復遠離。遠離為幻。亦復遠離。離遠離幻。亦復遠離。得無所離。即除諸幻。譬如鑽火。兩木相因。火出木盡灰飛煙滅。以幻修幻。亦復如是。諸幻雖盡。不入斷滅。善男子。知幻即離。不作方便。離幻即覺。亦無漸次。一切菩薩。及末世眾生。依此修行。如是乃能永離諸幻。釋曰。知幻即離不作方便者。以幻無定相。自性常離。離即空也。即一切凡聖垢淨萬法。皆同幻如空故。何用更作方便而求離。離幻即覺亦無漸次者。當離之時。全成大覺。即離即覺。平等一照。既無前後。豈有漸次耶。 > The Sūtra of Complete Enlightenment says: "At one time, the Bhagavān entered the samādhi of correct reception within the Great Radiance Treasury of Supernatural Powers, the gloriously luminous sustaining ground of all tathāgatas. This is the pure awakening ground of all sentient beings, where body and mind are extinguished in stillness, the primordial limit of equality, completely filling the ten directions, non-dually according \[with reality\]. In this non-dual realm, various pure lands are manifested." It also says: "Good man, all the various illusions and transformations of all sentient beings are all born from the wondrous citta of the Tathāgata's complete enlightenment, just like sky-flowers that exist due to the sky. Although the illusory flowers perish, the nature of the sky is not destroyed. The illusory citta of sentient beings also perishes based on illusion; when all illusions are completely extinguished, the awakened citta remains unmoved. Speaking of awakening based on illusion is also called illusion; if one speaks of possessing awakening, one has not yet departed from illusion; speaking of having no awakening is likewise. Therefore, the extinction of illusion is named unmoving. Good man, all bodhisattvas and sentient beings of the terminal age should distance themselves from all illusory, transformed, empty, and false realms. Due to firmly grasping and holding to the distancing citta, the citta that is like an illusion is also distanced; regarding distancing as an illusion, it is also distanced; departing from the illusion of distancing, it is also distanced. When there is nothing left to distance from, all illusions are then eliminated. It is like drilling for fire: two pieces of wood depend on each other; when fire comes forth, the wood is consumed, the ashes fly away, and the smoke disappears. Using illusion to cultivate \[against\] illusion is also like this. Although all illusions are exhausted, one does not enter into annihilation. Good man, knowing illusion is immediately distancing, without formulating expedient means; distancing from illusion is immediately awakening, also without gradations. All bodhisattvas and sentient beings of the terminal age who practice relying on this will thus be able to eternally distance themselves from all illusions." Explication: "Knowing illusion is immediately distancing, without formulating expedient means": because illusion has no fixed characteristic, its self-nature is constantly distanced, and distancing is emptiness. Since all tens of thousands of phenomena—defiled and pure, ordinary and sage—are equally illusory like empty space, what need is there to further formulate expedient means to seek distance? "Distancing from illusion is immediately awakening, also without gradations": at the very moment of distancing, one completely becomes the Great Awakening; immediate distancing is immediate awakening, an equal, single illumination. Since there is neither before nor after, how could there be gradations? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 94.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.94.8) - [Next: 94.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.94.10) - [Up: 94](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.94) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.94.9) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.94.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.94.9) · Pramāṇa