景德傳燈錄 5.93

5.93

"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: