[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) › [略諸經論念佛法門往生淨土集卷上](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826) › 1.7 # 略諸經論念佛法門往生淨土集卷上 1.7 略諸經論念佛法門往生淨土集卷上 1.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826.1.7) 然坐禪者。於彼齋戒。心全慢緩。多分不持。以何為因。而得禪定。何以得知。學坐之人。不持齋戒。以現量知。非比知也。出家者。過中藥食。種數千般。恣情盡足。在家者。三時飽食。持齋何在。酒通藥分。熏穢令補。病服鳥殘。及自死者。淨戒安存。以此理推。不持齋戒。但養見身。詎修來報。口雖說空。行在有中。以法訓人即言。萬事皆空。及至自身。一切皆有。不能亡軀。徇道齋戒。一時日夜。資持唯愁不活此。乃行參塵俗。沙門之義遠矣。幸有智者。見而思之。棄彼迷徒。應隨達者。又禪定者。上人之法。實未證得。言已得者。若約戒結。罪犯波羅夷。據經論。重墮增上慢。然今坐者。多犯此罪。何以故。師資互讚皆云。已得已證故。復言坐者。即於此身。證悟聖果。永斷生死。更不受生。禪師錯失。事在於此。非但陷他。亦成自累。又諸禪師。勸諸道俗。自內求佛。不假外佛。為善知識者。亦應不假禪師教導。自解看心。然禪師者。即是凡夫。都無證解。令諸道俗奔波奉事。愛過父母。悲泣雨淚。捨命求乞。一言何不令內求遣外求耶。設使得者。浮淺之言。不足可觀。 > Yet those who sit in meditation are completely lax regarding those precepts of fasting; most do not uphold them. Taking what as a cause could they attain dhyāna? How is it known that practitioners of sitting do not uphold the precepts of fasting? It is known by direct perception, not by inference. As for the monastics: their medicinal foods after midday number in the thousands, indulging their desires to the full. As for the householders: they eat their fill three times a day—where is their upholding of fasting? They treat wine as medicine, and use foul and pungent substances to nourish themselves; when ill, they consume the leavings of birds and beasts that died of themselves—how can pure precepts be preserved? Deducing from this principle: they do not uphold the precepts of fasting, but only nourish their present bodies; how could they cultivate for future retributions? Although their mouths speak of emptiness, their actions abide in existence. When instructing others with the Dharma, they say that all things are empty; yet when it comes to their own persons, everything exists. They are unable to sacrifice their bodies and dedicate themselves to the Path and the precepts of fasting for even a single day or night, and their support is only driven by fear that they will not survive—this is their conduct mingling with the dust of the world, far removed from the meaning of a śramaṇa! Fortunately, there are wise people who, seeing this, will reflect upon it, abandon those deluded followers, and follow the discerning. Furthermore, dhyāna is a practice of superior beings. When one has not truly attained or realized it, yet says one has attained it: if judged according to the precepts, the transgression is a pārājika; according to the sūtras and treatises, one falls heavily into abhimāna. Yet many who sit \[in meditation\] today commit this transgression. Why is that? Because teachers and disciples mutually praise one another, all saying that they have attained and realized it. They further say that those who sit \[in meditation\] will, in this very body, realize and awaken to the noble fruit, forever sever saṃsāra, and never again receive birth. The error of the Chan masters lies precisely in this: not only do they ensnare others, but they also bring harm upon themselves. Moreover, the Chan masters urge all monastics and laypersons to seek the Buddha internally from within themselves, rather than relying on an external Buddha as a spiritual friend; they should also not rely on a Chan master's guidance, but understand for themselves how to observe the mind. Yet the Chan masters are themselves ordinary beings, devoid of realization or understanding, who nonetheless cause monastics and laypersons to bustle about in their service, loving them more than their parents, weeping tears like rain, and forsaking their lives to beg for a single word from them—why do they not instruct them to seek within rather than sending them to seek externally? Even if they were to obtain something, it would be superficial speech, unworthy of regard. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826.1.6) - [Next: 1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826.1.8) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826~en-mt.1.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2826.1.7) · Pramāṇa