法苑珠林 99.8

99.8

第一依法不依人者。人惟情有。法乃軌模。性空正理。體離非妄。即用此法為正法依。涅槃經極教盛明斯轍。今行事者隨情妄述。多棄法逐人。從人起則。致乖遺寄陷溺身心。若能反彼俗心憑准聖量。隱心行務知非性空。乘持此心以為道路。一分知非明順空理。一分厭觀。明違有事。如此安心名修趣法性真道。

First: 'Rely on the Dharma and not on the person.' Persons exist only through emotional defilement, whereas the Dharma is the model. The correct principle of empty nature in its substance is free from falsehood. One takes this Dharma as the reliance of the saddharma. The Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra, as the ultimate teaching, fully clarifies this path. Those who engage in practice nowadays falsely set forth things according to their emotions, mostly abandoning the Dharma to follow persons. Setting up rules based on persons leads to betraying the testament [of the Buddha] and drowning body and mind. If one can turn away from such worldly minds and rely upon the authority of the sage, concealing the mind in conduct of duties and knowing that wrongs are empty of nature, taking this mind as the path: one part of knowing wrongs clearly accords with the principle of emptiness; one part of distasteful contemplation clearly opposes substantial phenomena. Calming the mind in this way is called cultivating the true path leading to the Dharma-nature.