景德傳燈錄 5.95

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又有達性禪師者。問曰。禪是至妙至微。真妄雙泯佛道兩亡。修行性空名相不實。世界如幻一切假名。作此解時不可斷絕眾生善惡二根。師曰。善惡二根皆因心有。窮心若有根亦非虛。推心既無根因何立。經云。善不善法從心化生。善惡業緣本無有實。師又有偈曰。

There was also a Chan Master Daxing, who asked: "Chan is supremely wondrous and supremely subtle. The true and the false are both obliterated; the Buddha and the Way are both forgotten. The nature of practice is empty; names and marks are not real. The world is like an illusion; all things are provisional names. When one forms this understanding, one must not cut off the two roots of good and evil in sentient beings." The Master said: "The two roots of good and evil both exist on account of the mind. If, when the mind is thoroughly examined, it exists, then the roots are also not empty. If, when the mind is investigated, it is already nonexistent, upon what are the roots established? The sūtra says: 'Good and non-good dharmas are transformed and produced from the mind.' Good and evil karmic conditions fundamentally have no reality." The Master also had a verse, which went: