[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) › [三教平心論](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117) › 2.17 # 三教平心論 2.17 三教平心論 2.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.17) 又曰。其言荒茫漫靡。夷幻變現。善推不驗。無實之事。抑不思。言劫數之長遠。是佛之見。通達過去未來。無有限礙。非若儒者據書契之紀載僅知數千百年之事而止也。言世界之廣大。是佛之見。洞燭虛空法界。無有邊際。非若儒者按職方以考驗僅知中國四夷之事而止也。無盡護法論曰。人有極聰明者。有極愚魯者。聰明者。於上古興亡之跡。六經子史之論。皆能知之。彼愚魯者。誠不知也。又安可以彼知者為誕乎。由是言之。則佛氏之說。豈可謂之不驗無實哉。 > Furthermore, he said: "Their words are wild and vague, diffuse and extravagant, filled with strange illusions and apparitions, adroit at adducing unverifiable things without reality." Yet he failed to reflect that speaking of the vast duration of kalpas is because the Buddha's vision penetrates the past and future without limitation or obstruction; it is not like the Confucians, who rely upon written records and know merely the events of several thousand or hundred years and go no further. Speaking of the vastness of the worlds is because the Buddha's vision penetrates space and the dharma-realm without boundaries; it is not like the Confucians, who check the regional treatises for verification and know merely the events of China and the four barbarian tribes and go no further. Layman Wujin's 'Treatise on Protecting the Dharma' says: "Among human beings, there are those who are extremely intelligent and those who are extremely dull. The intelligent are able to know the traces of the rise and fall of antiquity and the treatises of the Six Classics, philosophers, and histories; whereas the dull truly do not know them. How could one take what those \[intelligent ones\] know to be preposterous?" Judged by this, how could the sayings of the Buddhists be called unverifiable and lacking reality? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.16) - [Next: 2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.18) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117~en-mt.2.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.17) · Pramāṇa