[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) › 98.25 # 宗鏡錄 98.25 宗鏡錄 98.25 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [98.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.25) 汾州無業和尚。初問馬祖。三乘至理。粗亦研窮。常聞禪師即心是佛。實未能了。伏願指示。馬祖曰。即汝不了底心即是。更無別物。不了時是迷。了時是悟。亦猶手作拳。拳作手也。師又問。如何是祖師西來密傳心印。祖曰。大德正鬧在。且去。別時來。一足始跨門限。祖云。大德。便却迴頭。祖云。是什麼。遂豁然大悟。示徒云。祖師來此土。觀其眾生。有大乘根性。唯傳心印。印汝諸人迷情。得之者。即不論凡之與聖。愚之與智。多虛不如少實。大丈夫兒。不如直下休歇去好。頓息萬緣。截生死流逈出常格。靈光獨照。物類不拘。巍巍堂堂。三界獨步。何必身長丈六紫磨金輝。項佩圓光。舌相長廣。若以色見我。是人行邪道。設有眷屬莊嚴。不求而自至。山河大地。不礙眼光。一聞千悟。獲大總持。又臨終告眾云。汝等見聞智覺之性。與虛空齊壽。猶如金剛。不可破壞。一切諸法。如影如響。無有實者。經云。唯此一事實。餘二即非真。言訖。奄然而化。 > Venerable Wuye of Fenzhou at first asked Mazu: "Regarding the ultimate principle of the three vehicles, I have roughly researched and fathomed it. I have often heard the Dhyāna Master say that mind itself is Buddha, but I have truly not been able to understand it. I humbly pray for instruction." Mazu said: "Precisely that mind of yours that does not understand is it; there is no other thing. When not understanding, it is delusion; when understanding, it is awakening. It is like the hand making a fist, and the fist making a hand." The Master asked again: "What is the mind-seal secretly transmitted by the Patriarch from the west?" The Patriarch said: "Great Worthy, you are noisy right now; go away for now and come back another time." Just as one foot crossed the threshold, the Patriarch called: "Great Worthy!" He immediately turned his head. The Patriarch said: "What is it?" Thereupon he was completely and greatly awakened. He instructed his disciples, saying: "The Patriarch came to this land, saw that its sentient beings had the capacity for the Great Vehicle, and solely transmitted the mind-seal to seal all your deluded feelings. For one who attains it, it is regardless of commoner or sage, foolish or wise. Much emptiness is not as good as a little reality. A great man had better directly rest and cease right now; abruptly rest the myriad conditions, cut off the flow of birth and death, transcend the ordinary mold, let the luminous light shine alone, unconfined by categories of things, towering and magnificent, walking alone in the three realms. What need is there for a body sixteen feet tall, radiant with purple-sheen gold, a circular halo around the neck, and a long, broad tongue? 'If one sees me by form, this person travels a false path.' Even if there are retinue and adornments, they arrive naturally without seeking. Mountains, rivers, and the great earth do not obstruct the eye's vision. Hearing once, one awakens to a thousand things, attaining the great dhāraṇī." Furthermore, when on the brink of death, he addressed the assembly, saying: "The nature of your seeing, hearing, knowing, and perceiving shares its lifespan with empty space; like a vajra, it cannot be broken. All dharmas are like shadows and echoes; none have reality. A sūtra says: 'Only this one thing is real; the other two are not true.'" Having spoken, he abruptly passed away. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 98.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.24) - [Next: 98.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.26) - [Up: 98](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.98.25) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [緇門警訓](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2023.7.20) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.25) · Pramāṇa