昔有二人道中共行,见有一人将胡麻车,在崄路中不能得前。
In the past, there were two persons in the middle of the path together walking, seeing there is a person leading a sesame cart, in the middle of a steep road, not able to go forward.
时将车者语彼二人:「佐我推车出此崄路。」
Then, that person leading the cart said to those two persons, ‘Help me push this cart out of this steep road.’
二人答言:「与我何物?」
The two persons replied, saying, ‘You will give us what thing?’
将车者言:「无物与汝。」
That person leading the cart said, ‘I have nothing to give you.’
时此二人即佐推车至于平地,语将车人言:「与我物来。」
Then, these two persons immediately helped to push the cart to reach flat land. Speaking to the person leading the cart, saying, ‘Give us the thing earned.’
答言:「无物。」
He replied, saying, ‘I have nothing.’
又复语言:「与我无物。」
Once again saying, ‘Give us nothing.’
二人之中其一人者含笑而言:「彼不肯与,何足为愁?」
Within those two persons, that first person smiled and said, ‘As that person is not willing to give it, how is this worthy for worry?’
其人答言:「与我无物,必应有无物。」
That second person replied, saying, ‘Give us nothing, as you must have nothing.’
其一人言:「无物者,二字共合是为假名。」
That first person said, ‘As that nothing, is just two words [i.e. no thing] combined together, it is as a false name.’
世俗凡夫若无物者,便生无所有处,第二人言无物者,即是无相无愿无作。
Worldly ordinary beings, if are those attached to nothing, are then born in the sphere without that existing. That second person’s said nothing, then is that without form, without wish and without doing.
[Note 1: The sphere without that existing (无所有处) is the third formless realm’s heaven (第三无色界天) with nothing physical, which arises due to those very attached to the state of physical nothingness. Those reborn there, although abiding in it for a very long time in concentration, are still not liberated, as liberation is not to become ‘nothing.’]
[Note 2: Those liberated are as if without forms (无相), but still with all forms, without any pure and impure forms attached to. Those liberated are as if without wishes (无愿), but still with pure wishes, without any wish attached to. Those liberated are as if without doing (无作), but still with doing of what should be done, without any of the doing and that done attached to.]
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