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Liaoxin jing 了心經

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Other Titles: 太上老君說了心經.

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Daozang tiyao (Ren Jiyu and Zhong Zhaopeng)

是經說了心之法,謂“心為神主,動靜從心”。心為禍本,又為道宗。故“修道先觀其心”。其法為“不動不靜,無想無存,無心無動,有動從心。了心真性,了真性心,心無所住,住無所心。了無執住,無執轉真,空無空處,空處了真”,其旨多取於釋氏心性之說,疑出唐宋間。

Zhengtong Daozang tiyao (Hsiao Teng-fu)

經文極短,連前後經題,僅一百九十五字。內容主要在論述「心為禍本,心為道宗」,修道之法在觀心、了心。撰作年代約在唐代。

此經全文分三段,後兩段以「老君曰」起始。首段為此經之綱要,論述觀心修道之法,文云:「若夫修道,先觀其心。心為神主,動靜從心。心動無靜,不動了真。心為禍本,心為道宗。不動不靜,無想無存。無心無動,有動從心。了心真性,了性真心。心無所住,住無所心。了無執住,無執轉真。空無空處,空處了真。」其修道之法,是由內觀其心,使動靜由心,了心真性,而無所執著。

此經亦是受《太上老君說常清靜妙經》(《清靜經》)影響所撰成的道經,以《清靜經》流行的情形看,此經的撰作年代約在唐代。

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  • 正統道藏 DZ 642 (HY 642; TY 637; ZHDZ 6/11) (太上老君說了心經)
  • 道藏精華錄 JHL 31 (太上老君說了心經)  [repr. DZJH 5/1 (JH 208)]

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  • Lai Chi Tim 黎志添, ed., Daozang jiyao tiyao 道藏輯要提要 (Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2021), 432.
  • Schipper, Kristofer, and Franciscus Verellen, eds., The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004), 745.

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