宗鏡錄 41.30

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41.30

Question: The ancestral lineage from of old only bids people to abandon learning, make a single blade cut straight in, and transmit separately outside the teachings. Why rely on wisdom and broad learning to discuss nature and characteristics at length? When words proliferate, principle is obscured; when water is agitated, the pearl is clouded.

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宗鏡錄 — Classical Chinese