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諸經要集 12.38

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12.38

"Like a person at a fork in the road,
who in hesitation and doubt takes nothing,
with regard to the true mark of all dharmas,
doubt is also like this.
Because of doubt, one does not diligently seek
the true mark of all dharmas.
This doubt arises from ignorance;
it is the most evil of evils.
Among wholesome and unwholesome dharmas,
saṃsāra and nirvāṇa,
there are definitively real dharmas;
do not give rise to doubt regarding the Dharma.
If you harbor hesitation and doubt,
you will be bound by the wardens of the King of Death,
like a lion seizing a deer,
unable to attain liberation.
Though having doubts in the world,
one should follow the wondrous and wholesome Dharma;
just as when observing a fork in the road,
one should follow that which is good and advantageous."

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