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Two Minds Throw the Great Cosmos into Confusion · One Body Cannot Cultivate the True Nirvana

二心競鬥
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二心競鬥 Behold The Two Minds

gàizhòngshǒuguīliútōngsòngzhīláijiàngtiānhuāsànbīnfēnbǎozuòduìzhòngdào:「děngshìxīnqiěkànèrxīnjìngdòuérlái。」gàizhòngshǒuguīliútōngsòngzhīláijiàngtiānhuāsànbīnfēnbǎozuòduìzhòngdào:「děngshìxīnqiěkànèrxīnjìngdòuérlái。」


逐句解 Line by line

gàizhòngshǒuguīliútōngsòngzhīláijiàngtiānhuāsànbīnfēnbǎozuòduìzhòngdào:「děngshìxīnqiěkànèrxīnjìngdòuérlái。」 gàizhòngshǒuguīliútōngsòngzhīláijiàngtiānhuāsànbīnfēnbǎozuòduìzhòngdào:「děngshìxīnqiěkànèrxīnjìngdòuérlái。」

The whole assembly bowed their heads and took refuge; and in the midst of their circulating and reciting, the Tathāgata sent down heavenly flowers scattered in profusion, left his precious seat at once, and said to the multitude: "You are all of one mind. Now behold: two minds come contending hither."

jiàng, to send down. 普散 sàn. 俱是一心 against 二心競鬥 — the chapter's title set against the assembly in a single sentence.


總評 Commentary

One segment, and it does more work than the four courts that precede it. The Buddha does not wait to be petitioned, does not examine the pair, and does not ask which is which. He rises from his seat before they arrive and announces what is coming.

汝等俱是一心且看二心競鬥而來也 sets the assembly's unity against the pair's division in one balanced sentence, and in doing so it reframes the entire chapter. Everyone before this has treated the problem as arithmetic — there are two, and one is false. The Buddha describes it as a condition: 二心, two minds, the thing the title names and the poem diagnosed. He is not identifying an impostor; he is naming a state.

The timing is the point. He knows before he is told, which is the first time in the chapter that any authority has been ahead of the case rather than behind it. Five courts asked to be shown; this one has already seen.