鐔津文集 2.15

2.15

何人無心。何人無妙。何教無道。何道無中。概言乎中則天下不趨其至道。混言其妙則天下不求其至心。不盡乎至心至道。則偽者狂者矜者慢者。由此而不修也。生者死者因循變化。由此而不警也。妙有妙有大妙。中有事中有理中。夫事中也者萬事之制中者也。理中也者性理之至正者也。夫妙也者妙之者也。大妙也者妙之又妙者也。妙者百家者皆言。而未始及其大妙也。大妙者唯吾聖人推之。極乎眾妙者也。夫事中者百家者皆然。吾亦然矣。理中者百家者雖預中而未始至中。唯吾聖人正其中以驗其無不中也。曰心。曰道。名焉耳。曰中。曰妙。語焉耳。名與言雖異而至靈一也。一即萬萬即一。一復一萬復萬。轉之展之交相融攝而浩然不窮。大妙重玄其如此也矣夫。故其擲大千於方外。納須彌於芥子。而至人不疑。曰妙而已矣。曰中而已矣。又何以加焉。曰海固深矣。而九淵深於海。夷谿之子豈諒。於戲。

What person is without a mind? What person is without the wondrous? What teaching is without a path? What path is without the Mean? If one speaks of the Mean only in general terms, the world will not hasten toward its supreme path; if one speaks of the wondrous indiscriminately, the world will not seek its supreme mind. If one does not fully fathom the supreme mind and supreme path, then the false, the reckless, the arrogant, and the insolent will fail to cultivate because of this. The living and the dying, following routines and transformations, will fail to be alerted because of this. The wondrous has the wondrous and the Great Wondrous; the Mean has the Mean of phenomena and the Mean of principle. The Mean of phenomena is the regulation of the Mean in myriad affairs; the Mean of principle is the supreme rectitude of the principle of nature. The wondrous is that which makes things wondrous; the Great Wondrous is that which is wondrous beyond the wondrous. As for the wondrous, the hundred schools all speak of it, yet they have never reached its Great Wondrous. As for the Great Wondrous, only our sage has pursued it, taking all wonders to their ultimate. As for the Mean of phenomena, the hundred schools are all like this, and we are likewise so. As for the Mean of principle, although the hundred schools touch upon the Mean, they have never reached the supreme Mean; only our sage has rectified its Mean to verify that there is nothing that does not hit the Mean. The mind and the Way are merely names. The Mean and the wondrous are merely words. Although names and words differ, the supreme numinous awareness is one. One is ten thousand; ten thousand are one. One returns to one; ten thousand return to ten thousand. Rolling out and unfolding, mutually blending and encompassing without boundless exhaustion: the Great Wondrous and double mystery are just like this! Therefore, hurling the great trichiliocosm outside the realm of direction and putting Mount Sumeru into a mustard seed, the ultimate person does not doubt it, saying that it is merely the wondrous, it is merely the Mean—what more could be added to it? It is said that the ocean is indeed deep, but the nine abysses are deeper than the ocean. How could a child of Yixi understand this? Alas!