景德傳燈錄 5.93

5.93

又有安禪師者。問曰。道既假名佛云妄立。十二分教亦是接物度生。一切是妄以何為真。師曰。為有妄故將真對妄。推窮妄性本空。真亦何曾有故。故知真妄總是假名。二事對治都無實體。窮其根本一切皆空。曰既言一切是妄。妄亦同真。真妄無殊。復是何物。師曰。若言何物。何物亦妄。經云。無相似無比況。言語道斷如鳥飛空。安公慚伏不知所措。師又有偈曰。

"There was also a Chan Master An, who asked: "Since the Way is a provisional name and the Buddha is said to be falsely established, and the twelve divisions of the canon are also for receiving beings and delivering the living, when everything is false, what is taken as true?" The Master said: "Because the false exists, the true is opposed to the false. Thoroughly investigating the nature of the false, it is fundamentally empty; so how could the true ever have existed? Therefore, know that the true and the false are entirely provisional names. As two things used as antidotes, neither has real substance. Probing their root, everything is empty." An said: "Since you say that everything is false, the false is also the same as the true. When the true and the false are not different, what thing is it again?" The Master said: "If you say 'what thing,' that 'what thing' is also false. The sūtra says: 'There is no resemblance, no comparison; the path of language is cut off, like a bird flying through the sky.'" Master An was humbled, subdued, and did not know what to do. The Master also had a verse, which went: