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# 三教平心論 2.20

三教平心論 2.20

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2117.2.20)

朱晦菴曰。釋氏自以為直指人心見性成佛。而實不識心性。抑不思。首楞嚴一經乃心性之邃學。其言曰。前塵虛妄惑汝真性。又曰。遺失本妙圓妙明心寶明妙性。所以破妄心也。又曰。若離前塵有分別性。即汝真心。又曰我見如來手自開合。非我見性有開有合。所以明真心也。又曰。不知色身外洎山河虛空大地。咸是妙明真心中物。所以明此心之周遍無外也。又曰。各各自知心遍十方。一切世間有所諸物。皆即菩提妙明元心。了然自知獲本妙心常住不滅。所以證虛空妙心。而入佛境界也。謂之不識心性可乎。

> Zhu Hui'an said: "The Buddhists consider themselves to point directly to the human mind to see one's nature and become a Buddha, but in truth they do not know the mind and nature." Yet he failed to reflect that the Śūraṅgama Sūtra is profound learning on the mind and nature. Its words state: "External dusts and illusions deceive your true nature." It also says: "Losing the intrinsically wondrous, completely wondrous, luminous mind, the precious and luminous wondrous nature"—this is how it refutes the deluded mind. It also says: "If apart from external dusts there is a discriminative nature, that is your true mind." It also says: "I see the Tathāgata's hand opening and closing of itself, but it is not that my seeing-nature opens and closes"—this is how it clarifies the true mind. It also says: "Not knowing that the physical body, outward to the mountains, rivers, empty space, and the great earth, are all things within the wondrously luminous true mind"—this is how it clarifies that this mind is all-pervading and has nothing outside it. It also says: "Each knows of oneself that the mind pervades the ten directions, and that all things existing in all worlds are all the primordial, wondrously luminous mind of bodhi; distinctly knowing of oneself that one has obtained the original wondrous mind which abides permanently and is never destroyed"—this is how one realizes the empty, wondrous mind and enters the realm of the Buddhas. How could one say they do not know the mind and nature?  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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