Namo Fundamental Teacher Shakyamuni Buddha
南 無 本 師 釋 迦 牟 尼 佛
SUTRA OPENING GATHA
開 經 偈
The Dharma, infinitely profound and subtle,
Is rarely encountered even in a million kalpas.
Now we are able to hear, study, and follow it,
May we fully realize the Tathagata's true meaning.
無上甚深微妙法 百千萬劫難遭遇
我今見聞得受持 願解如來真實義
by Third Patriarch Seng CanThe Supreme Way is difficultOnly for those who pick and choose.Simply let go of love and hate;The Way will fully reveal itself.The slightest distinctionResults in a difference as great as heaven and earth.Hold not to likes and dislikes.The contention of likes and dislikesIs a disease of the mind.Without realizing the Profound Principle,It is futile to practice stillness.Intrinsically perfect like the Great Void,Without lack, without excess;In choosing to grasp or reject,One is blind to Suchness.Neither pursue conditioned existence,Nor stay in idle emptiness.All self-boundaries dissolve.Still trapped in duality,How can you recognize oneness?Failing to penetrate the meaning of oneness,Neither side will function.Banishing existence entwines you in existence;Pursuing emptiness turns you away from it.The more you talk and think,Cease all speech and thought,Then everywhere you are with the Way.To attain the principle, return to the source;Pursuing reflections, the essence is lost.Inner illumination, in a moment,Surpasses idle emptiness.The appearance of this idle emptinessResults entirely from deluded views.No need to search for truth,Just put to rest all views.Abide not in dualistic views;Take heed not to pursue them.As soon as right and wrong arise,The mind is bewildered and lost.When not even one thought arises,All dharmas are flawless.Free of flaws, free of dharmas,The subject disappears with its object,The object vanishes without its subject.Objects are objects because of subjects,Subjects are subjects because of objects.Are essentially of one emptiness.The one emptiness unites opposites,Equally pervading all phenomena.Not differentiating what is fine or coarse,How can there be any preferences?The Great Way is all embracing,Neither easy nor difficult.The narrow minded doubt this;In haste, they fall behind.With clinging one loses judgmentAnd will surely go astray.Let everything follow its own nature;The Essence neither goes nor stays.To follow your true nature is to unite with the Way,Be at ease and worries will cease.Fixation of thought is unnatural,Yet laziness of mind is undesirable.Not wanting to wear down the spirit,Why do you hold dear or alienate?To enter the One Vehicle,Be not prejudice against the six dusts.To have no prejudice toward the six dustsIs to come into true enlightenment.The wise abide in wu-wei,The fools entangle themselves.Yet the deluded desire and cling.To seek the mind with the mind--Is this not a great error?In delusion chaos and stillness arise,In enlightenment there is no desire and aversion.The duality of all thingsComes from false discrimination.Dreams, illusions, like flowers in the sky—How can they be worth grasping?Gain and loss, right and wrong--Dreams will naturally cease.If the mind makes no distinctions,All dharmas are of One Suchness.In the profound essence of this Suchness,One abandons all conditioning.Beholding the myriad dharmas in their entiretyThings return to their natural state.As all grounds for distinction vanish,Nothing can be compared or described.When what is still moves, there is no motion;When what is moving stops, there is no stillness.Since two cannot be established,Rules and measures are nonexistent.Achieving a mind of impartiality,All striving comes to an end;Doubts are completely cleared,In right faith the mind is set straight.Clear, empty, and self-illuminating,The mind exerts no effort.This is beyond the sphere of thought,Which reason and feeling cannot fathom.In the Dharma Realm of True Suchness,There are neither self nor others.To reach accord with it at onceJust practice non-duality.Non-duality embodies all things,As all things are inseparable.All follow this teaching.The Way transcends time and space —One thought for ten thousand years.Being nowhere yet everywhere,All places are right before your eyes.The smallest is the same as the largest,In the realm free of delusions.The largest is the same as the smallest;No boundaries or marks can be seen.Existence is precisely nonexistence,Nonexistence is precisely existence.If you cannot realize this,Then you should change your ways.Why worry about not reaching perfection?Trust in the non-duality of mind;Non-duality results from trust in mind.It is neither past, present, nor future.I take refuge in the Buddha, may all sentient beingsUnderstand the Great Way profoundly,And bring forth the bodhi mind.I take refuge in the Dharma, may all sentient beingsDeeply enter the sutra treasury,And have wisdom vast as the sea.I take refuge in the Sangha, may all sentient beingsForm together a great assembly,Countless are sentient beings, I vow to liberate;Endless are afflictions, I vow to eradicate;Measureless are the Dharmas, I vow to master;Supreme is the Buddha Way, I vow to attain.All the harm I have ever done, since time immemorial,Are caused by greed, anger, and ignorance,And produced through my body, speech, and will,Now I confess and amend all.May the merits of our deedsReach every part of the world;Sentient beings large and smallAll attain enlightenment.*来源：中台禅寺官网，CTTC英译。
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文章标题：信心銘 · Trust in Mind (中英对照)发布于2024-05-02 11:08:49
