廣弘明集 8.58

Language: Classical Chinese

8.58

答曰。聖道虛寂圓應無方。無方之應逗彼群品。器量有淺深。感通有厚薄。故令無像之像。像遍十方。無言之言。言充八極。應實塵砂大略有二。

I answer: The sage's Way is quiescent and vast, responding perfectly without fixed direction. Responses without fixed direction adapt to those various sentient beings. Their capacities vary in depth; their resonance varies in intensity. Therefore, the form of the formless manifests forms throughout the ten directions; the speech of the wordless fills the eight extremities with words. Responses are truly as numerous as grains of sand, but broadly speaking there are two kinds:
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