佛祖統紀 10.32

10.32

Master Caocao commented: 'Wei Jing collected the extant writings, compiling ten pieces into one collection; even letters answering friends were included in it. Why, then, did he not collect the Song of Realizing the Way? There is indeed an explanation for this. It is titled the Song of Realizing the Way, yet the methods of cultivation and realization established by the Tathāgata's teachings do not go beyond the Tripiṭaka, Shared, Distinct, and Consummate teachings. Is what is now called the "Way" the cultivation and realization of the Tripiṭaka and Shared teachings, or the cultivation and realization of the Distinct and Consummate teachings? If, setting these aside, there were another cultivation and realization, would it not be what Yongming called "those who do not rely on the stages, namely heavenly māras and non-Buddhists"? Master Shenzhi said: "Searching through commentaries and sūtras to discriminate names and characteristics results from one's own lack of penetration, not the fault of the sūtras and treatises." One does not know whose commentaries he meant. If he meant the commentaries of Cien and the like, that would be acceptable. But the Tiantai commentaries all have definitive standards: they absorb phenomena into the mind, and contemplation harmonizes with the sūtras; this is not merely counting others' treasures. How could it be called mere discrimination of names and characteristics?'