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# 景德傳燈錄 10.12

景德傳燈錄 10.12

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2076.10.12)

又問。如何是陀羅尼。師指禪床右邊曰。遮箇師僧却誦得。又問。別有人誦得否。又指禪床左邊曰。遮箇師僧亦誦得。云某甲為什麼不聞。師曰。大德豈不聞道。真誦無響真聽無聞。云恁麼則音聲不入法界性也。師曰。離色求觀非正見。離聲求聽是邪聞。云如何不離色是正見。不離聲是真聞。師乃有偈曰。

> He also asked, "What is a dhāraṇī?"  
> The Master pointed to the right side of the meditation platform and said, "This monk here can chant it."  
> He asked again, "Can anyone else chant it?"  
> \[The Master\] pointed to the left side of the meditation platform and said, "This monk here can also chant it."  
> \[The monk\] said, "Why did I not hear it?"  
> The Master said, "Venerable Sir, have you not heard it said: 'True chanting has no sound; true listening has no hearing'?"  
> \[The monk\] said, "If so, then sound does not enter the nature of the Dharma realm."  
> The Master said, "To seek seeing apart from form is not right view; to seek hearing apart from sound is perverse listening."  
> \[The monk\] said, "How is not parting from form right view, and not parting from sound true hearing?"  
> The Master then delivered a verse:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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