[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [弘明集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102) › 13.23 # 弘明集 13.23 弘明集 13.23 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [13.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.13.23) 夫生必有情天勢率至。不定於善必在於惡。是以始行道者要必有寄。寄之所因必因乎有。有之所資必資乎煩。是以經云。欲於空中造立宮室。終不能成。取佛國者非於空也。然則五度四等未始可廢。但當即其事用而去其忮心。歸於佛則無解於佛。歸於戒則無功於戒。則禪諦與五陰俱冥。末用與本觀同盡。雖復眾行兼陳。固是空中行空耳。或以為空則無行。行則非空。既已有所無乃失空乎。夫空者忘懷之稱。非府宅之謂也。無誠無矣。存無則滯封。有誠有矣。兩忘則玄解。然則有無由乎方寸。而無係於外物。器象雖陳於事用。感絕則理冥。豈滅有而後無。階損以至盡哉。由此言之。有固非滯。滯有則背宗。反流歸根。任本則自暢。是以開士深行統以一貫。達萬像之常冥。乘所寓而玄。領知來理之先空。恒得之於同致。悟四色之無映。順本際而偕廢。審眾觀之自然。故雖行而靡跡。方等深經每泯一三世而未常。謂見在為有。則空中行空旨斯見矣。 > Whatever is born must have passions; the heavenly course brings them inevitably. If not determined toward good, one must be in evil. Therefore, one who begins to practise the Dao must certainly have a reliance. That upon which one relies must depend upon existence; what existence relies on must depend on vexations. Therefore the scripture says: 'If one wishes to build palaces and chambers in empty space, in the end one cannot succeed. Taking hold of a Buddha land is not done in emptiness.' Thus the five perfections and four immeasurables can never be abandoned. One should only engage their functional application while discarding resentful intentions. In taking refuge in the Buddha, there is no understanding separate from the Buddha; in taking refuge in the precepts, there is no merit separate from the precepts. Then dhyāna and the truths merge with the five aggregates; secondary functions exhaust together with primal contemplation. Though the host of practices are displayed together, it is truly walking in emptiness within emptiness. Some may think that if it is empty, there is no practice, and if there is practice, it is not empty—since there is something possessed, does one not lose emptiness? Emptiness is an appellation for forgetting ideation, not a term for an empty house. Non-existence is truly non-existence, but preserving non-existence stagnates in confinement; existence is truly existence, but forgetting both brings profound liberation. Thus existence and non-existence depend upon the square inch of the mind, and have no ties to external things. Though vessels and images are displayed in functional affairs, when resonance ceases, principle is profound. How could it be that one must extinguish existence before having non-existence, or step down in loss to reach the end? Speaking from this, existence is certainly not stagnation; stagnating in existence goes against the source. Turning back the current to return to the root, according with the basis, one flows freely of oneself. Therefore the bodhisattva practises deeply, unifying it all with a single thread, realizing that the ten thousand forms are ever profound. Riding whatever he lodges in, he is mysteriously at ease, grasping that the coming principle is primarily empty, and always attains it in the same realization. Awakening to the non-reflection of the four colours, he accords with the fundamental limit and together they cease. Discerning the naturalness of the manifold contemplations, therefore though he walks, he leaves no tracks. The profound scriptures of the Vaipulya always obliterate the three times, yet never say that the present is existent. Thus the purport of walking in emptiness within emptiness can be seen here. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 13.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.13.22) - [Next: 13.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.13.24) - [Up: 13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.13) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102~en-mt.13.23) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.13.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2102.13.23) · Pramāṇa