[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) › 55.4 # 法苑珠林 55.4 法苑珠林 55.4 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [55.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.4) 蓋聞。三乘啟轍。諸子免火宅之災。八正開元。群生寤無為之果。是故慈雲降潤不別蒿蘭。慧日流輝寧分岸谷。且立教垂範盡妙窮微。發至生情難量叵測。雖周孔儒術莊老玄風。將欲方茲逈非倫擬。其有帝代賢士今古明君。咸共遵崇無乖敬仰。欲使玉礫異價涇渭分流。制六師而正八邪。反四倒而歸一味。折染俗之自然。興因果之正路。挫邪智之虛角。杜異見之妄言。求珠之寶心開。觀象之偽識正。自非德均真際體合無生。豈能契此玄門履之一實者也。 > It is heard that when the three vehicles opened their tracks, the children escaped the disaster of the burning house; when the eightfold noble path initiated its origin, the multitude of living beings awakened to the fruit of non-action. Therefore, the clouds of compassion rain moisture down without discriminating between wormwood and orchids; the sun of wisdom pours forth brilliance, how could it distinguish between riverbanks and valleys? Furthermore, establishing the teachings and handing down models exhausted the wondrous and probed the subtle; generating ultimate feelings of compassion, it is hard to measure and fathom. Though there are the Confucian arts of Zhou and Kong, and the mysterious ethos of Zhuang and Lao, if one seeks to compare them with this, they are entirely beyond comparison. As for the worthy gentlemen of imperial eras and the enlightened rulers of past and present, all together have revered it, without diverging in veneration. It aims to make jade and gravel differ in price, and the Jing and Wei rivers divide their flows; to subdue the six teachers and rectify the eight heterodoxies; to reverse the four inversions and return to the single flavour; to break the spontaneous nature posited by mundane defilements, and raise up the correct path of cause and effect; to break the empty horns of heterodox wisdom, and shut the false speech of deviant views; so that the precious heart seeking the pearl may open, and the false consciousness regarding the elephant may be rectified. Unless one's virtue equals the true limit and one's substance unites with the unborn, how could one tally with this mysterious gate and tread this single reality? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 55.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.3) - [Next: 55.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.5) - [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.55.4) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [唐護法沙門法琳別傳](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2051.1.13) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.55.4) · Pramāṇa