Faith In Mind(信心銘)

《信心銘》漢英對照

(譯者佚名)

信心銘 FAITH IN MIND

By Seng Ts’an, 僧璨大師

Third Patriarch of Ch’an

譯者佚名

至道無難，唯嫌揀擇。 The Supreme Way is not difficult If only you do not pick and choose.

但莫憎愛，洞然明白。 Neither love nor hate, And you will clearly understand.

毫釐有差，天地懸隔。 Be off by a hair, And you are as far apart as heaven from earth.

欲得現前，莫存順逆。 If you want it to appear, Be neither for nor against.

違順相爭，是為心病。 For and against opposing each other – This is the mind’s disease.

不識玄旨，徒勞念靜。 Without recognising the mysterious principle It is useless to practice quietude.

圓同太虛，無欠無余。 The Way is perfect like great space, Without lack, without excess.

良由取舍，所以不如。 Because of grasping and rejecting, You cannot attain it.

莫逐有緣，勿住空忍。 Do not pursue conditioned existence; Do not abide in acceptance of emptiness.

一種平懷，泯然自盡。 In oneness and equality, Confusion vanishes of itself.

止動歸止，止更彌動。 Stop activity and return to stillness, And that stillness will be even more active.

唯滯兩邊，寧知一種。 Only stagnating in duality, How can you recognise oneness?

一種不通，兩處失功。 If you fail to penetrate oneness, Both places lose their function.

遣有沒有，從空背空。 Banish existence and you fall into existence; Follow emptiness and you turn your back on it.

多言多慮，轉不相應。 Excessive talking and thinking Turn you from harmony with the Way.

絕言絕慮，無處不通。 Cut off talking and thinking, And there is nowhere you cannot penetrate.

歸根得旨，隨照失宗。 Return to the root and attain the principle; Pursue illumination and you lose it.

前空轉變，皆由妄見。 One moment of reversing the light Is greater than the previous emptiness. The previous emptiness is transformed; It was all a product of deluded views.

不用求真，唯須息見。 No need to seek the real; Just extinguish your views.

二見不住，慎莫追尋。 Do not abide in dualistic views; take care not to seek after them.

才有是非，紛然失心。 As soon as there is right and wrong The mind is scattered and lost.

二由一有，一亦莫守。 Two comes from one, Yet do not even keep the one.

一心不生，萬法無咎。 When one mind does not arise, Myriad dharmas are without defect.

無咎無法，不生不心。 Without defect, without dharmas, No arising, no mind.

能隨境滅，境逐能沉。 The subject is extinguished with the object. The object sinks away with the subject.

境由能境，能由境能。 Object is object because of the subject; Subject is subject because of the object.

欲知兩段，元是一空。 Know that the two Are originally one emptiness.

一空同兩，齊含萬象。 In one emptiness the two are the same, Containing all phenomena.

不見精粗，寧有偏黨。 Not seeing fine or coarse, How can there be any bias?

大道體寬，無易無難。 The Great Way is broad, Neither easy nor difficult.

小見狐疑，轉急轉遲。 With narrow views and doubts, Haste will slow you down.

執之失度，必入邪路。 Attach to it and you lose the measure; The mind will enter a deviant path.

放之自然，體無去住。 Let it go and be spontaneous, Experience no going or staying.

任性合道，逍遙絕惱。 Accord with your nature, unite with the Way, Wander at ease, without vexation.

系念乖真，昏沉不好。 Bound by thoughts, you depart from the real; And sinking into a stupor is as bad.

不好勞神，何用疏親。 It is not good to weary the spirit. Why alternate between aversion and affection?

欲取一乘，勿惡六塵。 If you wish to enter the one vehicle, Do not be repelled by the sense realm.

六塵不惡，還同正覺。 With no aversion to the sense realm, You become one wit true enlightenment.

智者無為，愚人自縛。 The wise have no motives; Fools put themselves in bondage.

法無異法，妄自愛著。 One dharma is not different from another. The deluded mind clings to whatever it desires.

將心用心，豈非大錯。 Using mind to cultivate mind – Is this not a great mistake?

迷生寂亂，悟無好惡。 The erring mind begets tranquillity and confusion; In enlightenment there are no likes or dislikes.

一切二邊，良由斟酌。 The duality of all things Issues from false discriminations.

夢幻空華，何勞把捉。 A dream, an illusion, a flower in the sky – How could they be worth grasping?

得失是非，一時放卻。 Gain and loss, right and wrong – Discard them all at once.

眼若不睡，諸夢自除。 If the eyes do not close in sleep, All dreams will cease of themselves.

心若不異，萬法一如。 If the mind does not discriminate, All dharmas are of one suchness.

一如體玄，兀爾忘緣。 The essence of one suchness is profound; Unmoving, conditioned things are forgotten.

萬法齊觀，歸復自然。 Contemplate all dharmas as equal, And you return to things as they are.

泯其所以，不可方比。 When the subject disappears, There can be no measuring or comparing.

止動無動，動止無止。 Stop activity and there is no activity; When activity stops, there is no rest.

兩既不成，一何有爾。 Since two cannot be established, How can there be one?

究竟窮極，不存軌則。 In the very ultimate, Rules and standards do not exist.

契心平等，所作俱息。 Develop a mind of equanimity, And all deeds are put to rest.

狐疑盡淨，正信調直。 Anxious doubts are completely cleared. Right faith is made upright.

一切不留，無可記憶。 Nothing lingers behind, Nothing can be remembered.

虛明自照，不勞心力。 Bright and empty, functioning naturally, The mind does not exert itself.

非思量處，識情難測。 It is not a place of thinking, Difficult for reason and emotion to fathom.

真如法界，無他無自。 In the Dharma Realm of true suchness, There is no other, no self.

要急相應，唯言不二。 To accord with it is vitally important; Only refer to “not-two.”

不二皆同，無不包容。 In not-two all things are in unity; Nothing is not included.

十方智者，皆入此宗。 The wise throughout the ten directions All enter this principle.

宗非促延，一念萬年。 This principle is neither hurried nor slow – One thought for ten thousand years.

無在不在，十方目前。 Abiding nowhere yet everywhere, The ten directions are right before you.

極小同大，忘絕境界。 The smallest is the same as the largest In the realm where delusion is cut off.

極大同小，不見邊表。 The largest is the same as the smallest; No boundaries are visible.

有即是無，無即是有。 Existence is precisely emptiness; Emptiness is precisely existence.

若不如是，必不須守。 If it is not like this, Then you must not preserve it.

一即一切，一切即一。 One is everything; Everything is one.

但能如是，何慮不畢。 If you can be like this, Why worry about not finishing?

信心不二，不二信心。 Faith and mind are not two; Non-duality is faith in mind.

言語道斷，非去來今。 The path of words is cut off; There is no past, no future, no present.