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Illumination Of True Wisdom 实智慧之照

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汝等比丘,若有智慧,则无贪著。常自省察,不令有失,是则于我法中,能得解脱。若不尔者,既非道人,又非白衣,无所名也。

You and other Bhikṣus, if having wisdom, are then without greedy attachment. Constantly personally examining oneself, not leading to having faults, this is then relying on my Dharma within, able to attain liberation. If there are those not thus, they are already not the path’s persons (i.e. monastics), also not white-robed laypersons, without those names.

实智慧者,则是度老病死海坚牢船也,亦是无明黑暗大明灯也,一切病者之良药也,伐烦恼树之利斧也。是故汝等,当以闻思修慧而自增益。

Those truly wise, are then strong and firm ships for delivering from the ocean of ageing, sickness and death, also are great bright lamps in ignorance’s darkness, good medicine of all those sick, and sharp axes that cut afflictions’ trees. Therefore, you and others, should with the wisdoms of listening, contemplation and cultivation, then personally increase in benefits.

若人有智慧之照,虽是肉眼,而是明见人也,是名智慧。

If people have the illumination of wisdom, although they are with the flesh eye, yet they are clearly seeing people. These are named as teachings on wisdom.

释迦牟尼佛
Śākyamuni Buddha
《佛遗教经》
The Sūtra Of The Buddha’s Bequeathed Teachings

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