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# 宗鏡錄 97.13

English (machine translation) 97.13

- **Language:** English

### [97.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2016~en-mt.97.13)

The Dharma-transmission verse of the fourth patriarch, the venerable Upagupta, says:  
“Citta is of itself the original citta;  
The original citta is not an existent dharma.  
If there is a dharma, there is an original citta;  
It is not citta, nor is it the original dharma.”

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