[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) › 97.37 # 宗鏡錄 97.37 宗鏡錄 97.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [97.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97.37) 此土初祖菩提達磨多羅。南天竺國王第三之子。常好理論。心念眾生。而不識佛。又自歎曰。世有形法。而易了之。唯佛心法。難有會者。爾時般若多羅尊者。至于其國。王賜一寶珠。其珠光明。璨然殊妙。尊者見已。用珠試曰。此寶珠者。有大光明。能照于物。更有好珠。能勝此不。菩提多羅曰。此是世寶。未得為上。於諸光中。智光為上。此是世明。未得為上。於諸明中。心明第一其此珠者。所有光明。不能自照。要假智光。智辯於此。既辯此已。即知是珠。既知是珠。即明其寶。若明其寶。寶不自寶。若辯其珠。珠不自珠。珠不自珠者。要假智珠而辯世珠。寶不自寶者。要假法寶以明俗寶。然則師有其道。其寶既現。眾生有道。心寶亦然。尊者異之。因出家悟道。遂行化此土。寶誌識是傳佛心印觀音聖人。師述安心法門云。迷時人逐法。解時法逐人。解則識攝色。迷則色攝識。但有心分別計校自心現量者。悉皆是夢。若識心寂滅無一動念處。是名正覺。 > The first patriarch of this land, Bodhidharmatrāta, was the third son of the king of a Southern Indian kingdom. He was always fond of discussing principle and bore sentient beings in mind, yet he did not know the Buddha. He also sighed to himself, saying: "The world has conditioned phenomena of form, and these are easy to comprehend; only the Buddha's mind-dharma is such that few understand it." At that time, the Venerable Prajñātāra arrived in his kingdom. The king bestowed a precious pearl whose radiance was dazzling and extraordinarily wondrous. Having seen it, the Venerable tested \[him\] with the pearl, saying: "This precious pearl has great brilliance and can illuminate objects. Is there yet any fine pearl that can surpass this?" Bodhidharmatrāta said: "This is a worldly treasure and cannot be considered supreme. Among all lights, the light of wisdom is supreme. This is worldly brightness and cannot be considered supreme; among all brightnesses, the brightness of the mind is foremost. As for this pearl, all the radiance it possesses cannot illuminate itself; it must rely on the light of wisdom for wisdom to discern it. Once it has been discerned, one knows it is a pearl; once one knows it is a pearl, one understands its preciousness. If one understands its preciousness, the treasure is not a treasure of itself; if one discerns the pearl, the pearl is not a pearl of itself. That the pearl is not a pearl of itself means that one must rely on the pearl of wisdom to discern the worldly pearl. That the treasure is not a treasure of itself means that one must rely on the Dharma-treasure to understand the conventional treasure. However, the master possesses its Way, and this treasure is already apparent; sentient beings possess the Way, and the mind-treasure is also thus." The Venerable marveled at him. Thereupon, he left the household life, awakened to the Way, and subsequently traveled to this land to convert beings. Baozhi recognized that he was the sage Avalokiteśvara who transmitted the Buddha's mind-seal. The Master set forth the teaching of pacifying the mind, saying: "When confused, the person pursues dharmas; when awakened, dharmas pursue the person. When awakened, consciousness subsumes form; when confused, form subsumes consciousness. Whenever there is a mental conceptualization that calculates the direct perception of one's own mind, it is all a dream. If the conscious mind is quenched and there is not a single point of moving thought, this is called right awakening." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 97.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97.36) - [Next: 97.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97.38) - [Up: 97](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.97.37) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (4) - [佛祖歷代通載](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2036.8.45) — Classical Chinese - [釋氏稽古略](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2037.2.134) — Classical Chinese - [傳法正宗記](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2078.5.8) — Classical Chinese - [少室六門](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2009.1.99) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.97.37) · Pramāṇa