[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) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 55.106 # 法苑珠林 55.106 法苑珠林 55.106 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [55.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.106) 朕捨邪外以事正內諸佛如來。若有公卿能入此誓者。各可發菩提心。老子周公孔子等。雖是如來弟子。而化迹既邪。止是世間之善。不能革凡成聖。其公卿百官王侯宗族。宜返偽就真捨邪入正。故經教成實論云。若事外道心重。佛法心輕。即是邪見。若心一等。是無記性不當善惡。若事佛心強老子心弱者。乃是清信。言清信者。清是表裏俱淨。垢穢惑累皆盡。信是信正不信邪。故言清信弟子。其餘諸信皆是邪見。不得稱清信也。門下速施行。 > "I have abandoned the heterodox and outer to serve the correct and inner, the Buddhas and Tathāgatas. If there are ministers and officials who can enter into this vow, each may generate the bodhicitta. Laozi, the Duke of Zhou, Confucius, and the like, although they were disciples of the Tathāgata, their transforming traces were already heterodox; they are merely worldly virtues and cannot transform an ordinary being into a sage. The ministers, myriad officials, princes, and royal clansmen should turn away from the false and take up the true, abandoning the heterodox to enter the correct. Therefore, the scriptural teaching of the \*Tattvasiddhi-śāstra\* says: 'If one serves heterodox paths with a heavy heart, but regards the Buddhadharma with a light heart, this is wrong view. If one's mind regards them equally, this is an indeterminate nature, neither good nor evil. If one's heart in serving the Buddha is strong, and one's heart toward Laozi is weak, this is being a pure believer.' What is meant by 'pure believer' is: 'pure' means both inside and outside are clean, and defilements and entangling delusions are completely exhausted; 'belief' means believing in the correct and not believing in the heterodox; hence one is called a 'pure-believing disciple' (upāsaka). All other forms of belief are wrong view and cannot be called pure belief. Let the Chancellery swiftly carry this out." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 55.105](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.105) - [Next: 55.107](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.107) - [Up: 55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.55.106) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.106](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.106) · Pramāṇa