宗鏡錄 29.14

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29.14

Question: Wisdom arises from meditative concentration (*samādhi*), and truth is verified through quiet contemplation (*dhyāna*). Why do you not instruct people to quiet their thoughts, clear their spirit, and secretly unite with the source while illuminating the substance? Hence it is said: 'Dhyāna can wash away the defilements of desire in the sense faculties, crush the high mountain of the fetters and latencies (*anuśaya*), extinguish the fierce winds of vitarka and vicāra, and block the poisonous arrows of the kleśas.' Why instead do you broadly discuss the general and the particular, explaining that the Buddha spoke of mind, confusing beginners and violating the authentic scriptures?

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