信心銘
至道無難 唯嫌揀擇 但莫憎愛
洞然明白 毫釐有差 天地懸隔
欲得現前 莫存順逆 違順相爭
是為心病 不識玄旨 徒勞念靜
圓同太虛 無欠無餘 良由取捨
所以不如 莫逐有緣 勿住空忍
一種平懷 泯然自盡 止動歸止
止更彌動 唯滯兩邊 寧知一種
一種不通 兩處失功 遣有沒有
從空背空 多言多慮 轉不相應
絕言絕慮 無處不通 歸根得旨
隨照失宗 須臾返照 勝却前空
前空轉變 皆由妄見 不用求真
唯須息見 二見不住 慎勿追尋
纔有是非 紛然失心 二由一有
一亦莫守 一心不生 萬法無咎
無咎無法 不生不心 能隨境滅
境逐能沈 境由能境 能由境能
欲知兩段 元是一空 一空同兩
齊含萬像 不見精麁 寧有偏黨
大道體寬 無易無難 小見狐疑
轉急轉遲 執之失度 心入邪路
放之自然 體無去住 任性合道
逍遙絕惱 繫念乖真 沈惛不好
不好勞神 何用疎親 欲趣一乘
勿惡六塵 六塵不惡 還同正覺
智者無為 愚人自縛 法無異法
妄自愛著 將心用心 豈非大錯
迷生寂亂 悟無好惡 一切二邊
妄自斟酌 夢幻空華 何勞把捉
得失是非 一時放却 眼若不眠
諸夢自除 心若不異 萬法一如
一如體玄 兀爾忘緣 萬法齊觀
歸復自然 泯其所以 不可方比
止動無動 動止無止 兩既不成
一何有爾 究竟窮極 不存軌則
啟心平等 所作俱息 狐疑盡淨
正信調直 一切不留 無可記憶
虛明自然 不勞心力 非思量處
識情難測 真如法界 無他無自
要急相應 唯言不二 不二皆同
無不包容 十方智者 皆入此宗
宗非促延 無在不在
十方目前 極小同大 妄絕境界
極大同小 不見邊表 有即是無
無即是有 若不如是 必不須守
一即一切 一切即一 但能如是
何慮不畢 信心不二 不二信心
言語道斷 非去來今
The ultimate way is not difficult; It simply dislikes picking and choosing. Just have no hatred or love, And it will be perfectly clear.
A hair's breadth of difference, And heaven and earth are set apart. If you want it to appear before you, Do not hold to acceptance or rejection.
When acceptance and rejection contend, This is a sickness of the mind. Not understanding the profound meaning, You labor in vain to quiet thoughts.
Perfect, like the great void, Lacking nothing, having no excess. Truly, it is because of grasping and rejecting That you are not at ease.
Do not chase after conditions, Do not dwell in empty endurance. In a single, even state of mind, All distinctions naturally cease.
To stop movement by returning to stillness, Is to make stillness even more agitated. If you cling to the two extremes, How can you know the one reality?
When the one is not understood, Both sides fail in their function. To reject being is to fall into being; To follow emptiness is to turn against emptiness.
Much talk, much thought, Only leads further from accord. Cease words, cease thoughts, And there is nowhere you cannot penetrate.
Return to the root, attain the essence; Follow the light, lose the source. In a moment of turning the light within, You surpass the emptiness before you.
The emptiness before you undergoes change, All due to false views. There is no need to seek truth; Only cease your views.
Do not dwell in dual views, Take care not to pursue them. The moment there is right and wrong, The mind is lost in confusion.
Duality arises from oneness; But do not cling to oneness either. When not a single thought arises, All phenomena are without fault.
Without fault, without phenomena; Not arising, not mind. When the subject follows the object's extinction, The object sinks along with the subject.
The object exists because of the subject; The subject exists because of the object. If you wish to know these two, They are originally one emptiness.
One emptiness is the same as the two, Together containing all appearances. Not seeing fine or coarse, How can there be partiality?
The great way is broad and open, Neither easy nor difficult. Narrow views, full of doubt, Grow more hurried, more delayed.
To grasp it is to lose the measure; The mind enters a wrong path. Let it go, be natural; Its essence neither comes nor goes.
Follow your nature, merge with the way; Wander free, beyond all trouble. Binding thoughts violate truth; Sinking into dullness is not good.
Not good is to weary the spirit. What use is distant or near? If you wish to enter the one vehicle, Do not hate the six sense-objects.
When the six sense-objects are not hated, They are identical with true enlightenment. The wise do not act; The foolish bind themselves.
The Dharma is not divided; It is false love that makes attachments. To use mind to control mind— Is this not a great mistake?
Delusion creates stillness and turmoil; Awakening has no likes or dislikes. All dualities Are vainly pondered over.
Like dreams, illusions, empty flowers, Why trouble to grasp them? Gain and loss, right and wrong— Let them all go at once.
If the eye does not sleep, All dreams cease by themselves. If the mind makes no distinctions, All phenomena are one suchness.
The one suchness, profound in essence, Is suddenly free from conditions. All phenomena equally observed, Return to their natural state.
When their reasons are extinguished, No comparisons can be made. To stop movement is not to move; Movement stopped is not stillness.
Since the two do not exist, How can the one be? At the ultimate limit, No rules remain.
The mind awakened to equality Ceases all doing. All doubts are purified; Right faith is straightforward.
Nothing is retained, Nothing to remember. Empty, luminous, natural, No effort of mind is needed.
Beyond the realm of thought, Consciousness and emotion cannot fathom it. In the true Dharma-realm, There is no other, no self.
To respond urgently, Just speak of non-duality. Non-duality is all-equal, All-inclusive.
Wise ones of the ten directions All enter this principle. (One thought is ten thousand years; ten thousand years are one thought.) The principle is not brief or prolonged; It is nowhere, yet everywhere.
The ten directions are right before your eyes. The extremely small is the same as the large—deluded boundaries vanish. The extremely large is the same as the small—no edges are seen.
Being is non-being; Non-being is being. If it is not so, You need not hold to it.
One is all; All is one. If you can be like this, What worry about not completing it?
Faith-mind is non-dual; Non-dual is faith-mind. The path of words is cut off; Not past, not future, not present.
信心銘之終