[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) › [禪林寶訓](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022) › 4.20 # 禪林寶訓 4.20 禪林寶訓 4.20 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.4.20) 心聞曰。教外別傳之道。至簡至要。初無他說。前輩行之不疑。守之不易。天禧間雪竇以辯博之才。美意變弄求新琢巧。繼汾陽為頌古。籠絡當世學者。宗風由此一變矣。逮宣政間。圓悟又出己意離之為碧巖集。彼時邁古淳全之士。如寧道者死心靈源佛鑒諸老。皆莫能迴其說。於是新進後生珍重其語。朝誦暮習謂之至學。莫有悟其非者。痛哉。學者之心術壞矣。紹興初。佛日入閩見學者牽之不返。日馳月騖浸漬成弊。即碎其板闢其說。以至祛迷援溺剔繁撥劇摧邪顯正。特然而振之。衲子稍知其非而不復慕。然非佛日高明遠見乘悲願力救末法之弊。則叢林大有可畏者矣（與張子韶書）。 > Xinwen said: "The Way of a special transmission outside the teachings is most simple and most essential; fundamentally there was no other talk. The predecessors practiced it without doubt and preserved it without change. During the Tianxi era, Xuedou, using his eloquent and erudite talent, indulging fine conceits, playing tricks, and seeking novelty and carving ingenuity, followed Fenyang in making verse commentaries on ancient cases, enticing the learners of the time. The style of the lineage underwent a change from this. By the Xuanhe and Zhenghe eras, Yuanwu again brought forth his own ideas, separating them to make the Blue Cliff Record. At that time, men of antiquity-transcending purity and perfection, such as Master Ning, Sixin, Lingyuan, and Fojian, were all unable to turn back his discourse. Thereupon, newly advanced youngsters treasured his words, chanting them morning and practicing them evening, calling them the ultimate learning, with none realizing their error. How painful! The mental methods of learners have been ruined. In the early Shaoxing era, Fori entered Min and saw learners pulled along without returning, rushing by day and galloping by month, steeped into an abuse. He immediately shattered the printing blocks and refuted his discourse, going so far as to dispel delusion, rescue the drowning, prune complexity, weed out entanglement, destroy the heterodox, and manifest the orthodox, specially rousing them. The patch-robed monks came to know a little of its error and no longer admired it. Yet had it not been for Fori's lofty brilliance, far-reaching vision, and riding the power of vows of compassion to rescue the abuses of the final age of the Dharma, the monastic groves would have had great cause for dread." (Letter to Zhang Zishao) > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.4.19) - [Next: 4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.4.21) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022~en-mt.4.20) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2022.4.20) · Pramāṇa