宗鏡錄 97.48

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第六祖慧能大師云。汝等諸人。自心是佛。更莫狐疑。心外更無一法而能建立。皆是自心生萬種法。經云。心生種種法生。其法無二其心亦然。其道清淨。無有諸相。汝莫觀淨。及空其心。此心無一無可取捨。行住坐臥。皆一直心。即是淨土。依吾語者。決定菩提。傳法偈云。心地含諸種。普雨悉皆生。頓悟華情已。菩提果自成。讓大師云。一切萬法。皆從心生。若達心地。所作無礙。汝今此心。即是佛故。達磨西來。唯傳一心之法。三界唯心。森羅及萬像。一法之所印。凡所見色。皆是自心。心不自心。因色故心。汝可隨時。即事即理。都無所礙。菩提道果。亦復如是。從心所生。即名為色。知色空故。生即不生。馬大師問曰。如何用意合禪定無相三昧。師曰。汝若學心地法門。猶如下種。我說法要。譬如天澤。汝緣合故。當見于道。馬大師又問曰。和尚云。見道。道非色故。云何能覩。師曰。心地法眼。能見于道。無相三昧。亦復然矣。馬大師曰。有成壞不。師曰。若契此道。無始無終。不成不壞。不聚不散。不長不短。不靜不亂。不急不緩。若如是解當名為道。汝受吾教。聽吾偈言。心地含諸種。遇澤悉皆萠。三昧華無相。何壞復何成。

The sixth patriarch, Great Master Huineng, said: "All of you, your own minds are the Buddha; do not have any further doubts. Outside of the mind, there is not a single dharma that can be established; all are the myriad dharmas generated by one's own mind. A sūtra says: 'When the mind arises, all dharmas arise.' Its dharmas are not two, and its mind is also thus. Its Way is pure and has no characteristics. Do not contemplate purity or empty your mind. In this mind, there is not a single thing to be grasped or rejected. In walking, standing, sitting, and lying down, always have a straight mind—that is the Pure Land. Those who rely on my words are certain to attain bodhi." His verse of transmission of the Dharma says: / "The mind-ground contains all seeds; / Under the universal rain, all of them grow. / Having頓awakened to the sentiment of the flower, / The fruit of bodhi completes of itself." / Master [Huai]rang said: "All the myriad dharmas are born from the mind. If you penetrate the mind-ground, what you do will be unobstructed. This present mind of yours is itself the Buddha. When Bodhidharma came from the West, he only transmitted the dharma of the one mind. The three realms are mind-only; the vast array of myriad phenomena is sealed by the one Dharma. All forms that are seen are one's own mind. The mind is not mind of itself; it is mind because of form. You may at all times identify phenomena with principle, completely without obstruction. The fruit of the path to bodhi is also like this. What is produced from the mind is called form; knowing that form is empty, arising is non-arising." / Master Ma[zu] asked, saying: "How should one apply the mind to accord with the formless samādhi of dhyāna?" The Master said: "If you study the mind-ground Dharma-gate, it is like sowing seeds; my explaining the essentials of the Dharma is like heavenly moisture. When your conditions harmonize, you will see the Way." Master Ma asked again, saying: "The Venerable says one 'sees the Way'. Since the Way is not form, how can it be viewed?" The Master said: "The Dharma-eye of the mind-ground can see the Way; the formless samādhi is also like this." Master Ma said: "Is there creation and destruction or not?" The Master said: "If one tallies with this Way, it has no beginning and no end; it is not created and not destroyed, not gathered and not dispersed, not long and not short, not quiet and not chaotic, not hurried and not delayed. If understood like this, it should be called the Way. Receive my instruction and listen to my verse: / 'The mind-ground contains all seeds; / Meeting moisture, all of them sprout. / The flower of samādhi is formless; / What is destroyed, and what is created?'"