緇門警訓 1.2

1.2

The single nature is perfectly luminous, complete in every person. Yet with a sudden delusion, one instantly enters saṃsāra. With great compassion and vast rescue, [the enlightened ones] pull up those stranded and drowning in the drifting flow; through many expedient means, they enable them to cultivate and restore their nature. However, will must be supreme, and energy secondary. Those who cannot guide energy with will often sink into errors and fail to return. For this reason, there are those endowed with great capacity who, riding the wheel of their original vows, wipe out the treasury of the true dharma eye, stepping forth to apply harsh pincers and hammers, furious fists, and scorching shouts—like swift thunder and sudden lightning that leave no time to cover one's ears—in order to smelt and forge them, to mold and fashion them, to overturn and completely penetrate them. They further compose dharma words, informal instructions, instructions to the assembly, admonitions, injunctions, and mottos to stimulate and urge them, to drive and spur them, to praise and elevate them, and to transform and guide them. Ah! The vow to propagate the Dharma is weighty, and their pity for sentient beings is profound. How could the compilation of this book, Admonitions and Instructions for the Black-Robed Order, be in vain? Yet, just as the great sun hangs brilliantly in the sky and all equally receive its illumination, when a cataract clouds the eye, doubts arise in vain; hence, there are interwoven...