[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) › 98.49 # 宗鏡錄 98.49 宗鏡錄 98.49 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [98.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.49) 千頃和尚云。一切眾生。驢騾象馬。蜈蚣蚰蜒。十惡五逆。無明妄念。貪瞋不了之法。並從如來藏中顯現。本來是佛。只為眾生。從無始劫來瞥起一念。從此奔流。迄至今日。所以佛出世來。令滅意根。絕諸分別。一念相應。便超正覺。豈用教他多知多解。擾亂身心。所以菩提光明。不得發現。汝今但能絕得見聞覺知。於物境上莫生分別。隨時著衣喫飯。平常心是道。此法甚難。學人問。和尚。夜後無燈時如何。師云。悟道之人。常光現前。有什麼晝夜。問。何不見和尚光。師云。擬將什麼眼見。學人云。世人同將現在眼見。師彈指云。苦哉。一切眾生。根塵相涉。從無始來。認賊為子。至于今日。常被枷鎖。汝將眼見。意識分別。擬求佛道。即是背却本心。逐念流轉。如此之人。對面隔越。 > Master Qianqing said: 'All sentient beings—donkeys, mules, elephants, horses, centipedes, millipedes, the ten unwholesome deeds, the five heinous crimes, avidyā and false thoughts, the unresolved dharmas of rāga and dveṣa—all manifest from within the tathāgatagarbha. Originally they are buddha; it is merely that sentient beings, from beginningless kalpas, have fleetingly given rise to a single thought, and from this have rushed downstream down to the present day. Therefore, when the Buddha appeared in the world, he caused them to eliminate the mental faculty and cut off all discriminations. In one thought of resonance, they directly transcend to right awakening. Why should one teach them to have much knowledge and much understanding, perturbing their body and mind, so that the radiant light of bodhi cannot manifest? If you can now simply cut off seeing, hearing, sensing, and knowing, give rise to no discrimination regarding external objects, wear clothes and eat food according to the time—the ordinary mind is the Way. This dharma is exceedingly difficult.' A student asked: 'Master, what about when there is no lamp after nightfall?' The Master said: 'For a person who has awakened to the Way, the constant light is present before them; what day or night is there?' \[The student\] asked: 'Why do I not see the Master's light?' The Master said: 'What eye do you intend to use to see it?' The student said: 'Worldly people all use the present eye to see.' The Master snapped his fingers and said: 'How bitter! All sentient beings have their faculties and dust intermingled; from beginningless time they have taken a thief to be their child, and down to the present day they are constantly shackled. If you intend to seek the Buddha Way using the seeing of the eye and the discrimination of the manovijñāna, that is to turn your back on the original mind and wander following thoughts. Such a person is separated though face to face.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 98.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.48) - [Next: 98.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.50) - [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.98.49) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016.98.49) · Pramāṇa