[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) › [坐禪三昧經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614) › 2.72 # 坐禪三昧經 2.72 坐禪三昧經 2.72 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.72) 此中十二分，云何無明分？不知前、不知後、不知前後，不知內、不知外、不知內外，不知佛、不知法、不知僧，不知苦、不知習、不知盡、不知道，不知業、不知果、不知業果，不知因、不知緣、不知因緣，不知罪、不知福、不知罪福，不知善、不知不善、不知善不善，不知有罪法、不知無罪法，不知應近法、不知應遠法，不知有漏法、不知無漏法，不知世間法、不知出世間法，不知過去法、不知未來法、不知現在法，不知黑法、不知白法，不知分別因緣法，不知六觸法，不知實證法。如是種種不知不慧不見，闇黑無明，是名無明。 > Among these twelve links, what is the link of ignorance? Not knowing the past, not knowing the future, not knowing the past and future; not knowing the internal, not knowing the external, not knowing the internal and external; not knowing the Buddha, not knowing the Dharma, not knowing the Saṃgha; not knowing suffering, not knowing its arising, not knowing its cessation, not knowing the path; not knowing karma, not knowing its fruit, not knowing karma and fruit; not knowing causes, not knowing conditions, not knowing causes and conditions; not knowing demerit, not knowing merit, not knowing demerit and merit; not knowing the good, not knowing the unwholesome, not knowing the good and unwholesome; not knowing faulty dharmas, not knowing faultless dharmas; not knowing dharmas to be associated with, not knowing dharmas to be avoided; not knowing dharmas with outflows, not knowing dharmas without outflows; not knowing mundane dharmas, not knowing supramundane dharmas; not knowing past dharmas, not knowing future dharmas, not knowing present dharmas; not knowing black dharmas, not knowing white dharmas; not knowing the dharmas of analyzing causes and conditions; not knowing the dharmas of the six contacts; not knowing the dharmas of actual realization. Such various kinds of unknowing, absence of wisdom, and lack of vision—blind darkness without illumination—this is called ignorance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.71) - [Next: 2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.73) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614~en-mt.2.72) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (4) - [རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་པར་འབྱུང་བ་དང་པོ་དང་རྣམ་པར་དབྱེ་བ་བསྟན་པའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.sastra.pratityasamutpadadivibhanganirdesatika*bo.16) — Classical Tibetan - [Arthaviniścayasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra.9) — Sanskrit - [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo.4) — Classical Tibetan - [རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་དང་པོ་དང་རྣམ་པར་དབྱེ་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.pratityasamutpadadivibhanganirdesa*bo.2) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.614.2.72) · Pramāṇa