萬善同歸集 3.139

3.139

學道之門，別無奇特，只要洗滌根塵下無量劫來業識種子。汝等但能消除情念，斷絕妄緣，對世間一切愛欲境界，心如木石相似；直饒未明道眼，自然成就淨身。若逢真正導師，切須勤心親近；假使參而未徹，學而未成，歷在耳根，永為道種，世世不落惡趣，生生不失人身；纔出頭來，一聞千悟。須信道，真善知識是人中最大因緣，能化眾生得見佛性。深嗟末世誑說一禪，只學虛頭，全無實解。步步行有，口口談空。自不責業力所牽，更教人撥無因果。便說飲酒食肉，不礙菩提；行盜行婬，無妨般若，生遭王法，死墮阿鼻。受得地獄業消，又入畜生餓鬼，百千萬劫無有出期。除非一念回光，立即翻邪為正。若不自懺、自悔、自修，諸佛出來也無救爾處。若割心肝如木石相似，便可食肉；若飲酒如屎尿相似，便可飲酒；若見端正男女如死屍相似，便可行婬；若見己財如糞土相似，便可偷盜。饒爾煉得至此田地，亦未可順汝意在，直待證無量聖身，始可行世間逆順事。古聖施設，豈有他心？只為末法僧尼，少持禁戒，恐賺向善俗子，多退道心，所以廣行遮護。千經所說，萬論所陳，若不去婬，斷一切清淨種；若不去酒，斷一切智慧種；若不去盜，斷一切福德種；若不去肉，斷一切慈悲種。三世諸佛，同口敷宣；天下禪宗，一音演暢。如何後學，略不聽從，自毀正因，反行魔說？只為宿薰業種，生遇邪師，善力易消，惡根難拔。豈不見，古聖道：「見一魔事，如萬箭攢心；聞一魔聲，如千錐劄耳。」速須遠離，不可見聞。各自究心，慎莫容易，久立珍重。

The gate of practicing the Way has nothing extraordinary about it; it only requires cleansing the seeds of karmic consciousness accumulated beneath the sense faculties and sense objects for immeasurable kalpas. If you can simply extinguish emotional thoughts and cut off delusive conditions, having a mind like wood and stone toward all worldly realms of desire and affection, even if the eye of the Way is not yet clarified, you will naturally achieve a pure body. If you encounter a true guide, you must diligently draw close to them with wholehearted devotion. Even if your inquiry is not yet thorough and your study not yet accomplished, once it has passed through your ear faculties, it will remain an eternal seed of the Way, so that age after age you will not fall into the durgati, and birth after birth you will not lose a human body; as soon as you emerge, hearing [one thing] you will awaken to a thousand. You must believe that a true kalyāṇamitra is the greatest condition among human beings, capable of transforming sentient beings so that they behold the buddhadhātu. Deeply lamentable are those in the degenerate age who falsely teach a 'one-sided Chan', learning only empty pretenses with entirely no actual understanding. With every step they act in existence, yet with every word they preach emptiness. Not blaming their own entanglement in the power of karma, they further instruct people to dismiss cause and effect. They then claim that drinking wine and eating meat do not hinder bodhi, and that committing theft and lust do not obstruct prajñā. In life they suffer under the king's law, and at death they plunge into Avīci. Once the karma of the hells is exhausted, they enter again among animals and hungry ghosts, without a time of release for hundreds of thousands of myriads of kalpas—unless in a single thought they turn the light around, immediately reversing the crooked into the upright. If you do not repent for yourself, regret for yourself, and cultivate for yourself, even if all the Buddhas appear, there will be no way to save you. If cutting out your own heart and liver feels like wood and stone, then you may eat meat; if drinking wine tastes like feces and urine, then you may drink wine; if beholding handsome men and beautiful women seems like looking at corpses, then you may engage in lust; if viewing your own wealth is like dung and dirt, then you may steal. Even if you have refined yourself to such a stage, you still must not follow your own inclinations; you must wait until you realize the immeasurable holy body before you can act according to or against the conventions of the world. In the ancient sages' provisions, could there have been any other intention? It was solely because monks and nuns in the age of the decline of the Dharma rarely uphold the prohibitive precepts, and fearing that they might deceive laypeople who tend toward the good and cause many to regress from their aspiration for the Way, they broadly enacted protective prohibitions. As spoken in a thousand sūtras and set forth in ten thousand treatises: if you do not eliminate lust, you sever all seeds of purity; if you do not eliminate wine, you sever all seeds of wisdom; if you do not eliminate theft, you sever all seeds of merit; if you do not eliminate meat, you sever all seeds of compassion. The Buddhas of the three periods expound this with one voice; the Chan lineage throughout the world proclaims this with one sound. How is it that later students do not listen or comply in the least, destroying their own correct causes and conversely practicing demonic teachings? It is solely because of karmic seeds perfumed in past lives and meeting false teachers in this birth, so that good power is easily consumed while roots of evil are hard to uproot. Have you not seen what an ancient sage said: 'Seeing a single demonic deed is like ten thousand arrows piercing the heart; hearing a single demonic voice is like a thousand awls stabbing the ears'? You must quickly stay far away from them, neither seeing nor hearing them. Each of you examine your own mind; be cautious and do not take this lightly. You have stood for a long time—take care.