This verse was spoken by Sakyamuni Buddha when he taught the Dharma to Venerable Kasyapa. It contains the ultimate truth of the Middle Way of Buddhism, just like Nagarjuna Bodhisattva's "Middle Way". " reveals: "Dharma arises from all causes and conditions, I say it is empty, it is also false name, it is also the meaning of the middle way." If you have understood this verse, you will know more than half of the general meaning of Buddhism, and the rest can only be achieved through hard practice. It’s a great effort!

“The law is lawless. If there is no law, it is also law. Now that it is lawless, how could the law be law?” A concise translation is as follows: “The law is lawlessness.” Although all laws are lawless, It is called "Dharma", but its original appearance is that there is no law that can be established. "There is no law but law". Although there is no law that can be established, it does not hinder the cause and effect of all laws. "Now there is no law." , now when teaching and imparting this "no" dharma that "one dharma cannot be established", one may also think that there really is a so-called "'no' dharma". "How could a dharma be a law?" It should be noted that there has never been a single dharma that can be established. How could there ever be a "no" method!

This verse can be found in the Song Dynasty's "Jingde Zhuan Deng Lu". Volume 1" contains: Sakyamuni Buddha "lived the Dharma for forty-nine years, and later told his disciple Mahakasyapa, I will give you the pure Dharma eye, the wonderful mind of Nirvana, the formless reality, and the subtle Dharma. You should support it and order Ananda to assist in the transmission of transformation. Without orders to cut it off, you should say a verse: 'The Dharma is lawless. If there is no law, it is also law. Now that it is impossible, how can Dharma be law?'"

Also found in Song Dynasty's "Zhuanfa Zhengzong Records Volume One", "Wudenghui Yuan Volume One", Yuan Dynasty's "Buddha's Records of All Dynasties Volume One", "Shi Shi's Ji Gu Lue", Ming Dynasty's "Zhiyue Lu", Qing Dynasty's "Zhi Yue Lu" "Volume 1 of the Five Deng Quanshu".

The Tang Dynasty's "Master Huangbo's Heart-Teaching Essentials" also recorded the following public case:

A monk asked Zen Master Huangbo: "The Sixth Patriarch did not know writing. If you can't read the scriptures, how can you pass on the robes to your ancestor? Master Shenxiu is the first of the five hundred Zen disciples. As a teacher, he has taught thirty-two sutras and treatises. Why didn't the fifth ancestor pass on the robes to him?" Zen Master Huangbo replied. : "Because Venerable Shenxiu was determined to seek the Dharma, it was a conditioned Dharma, and he thought that what he practiced and attained would be rewarded. At that time, the Sixth Patriarch only had a tacit understanding in his heart and understood the profound meaning of the Tathagata, so the Fifth Patriarch gave him the Dharma." Then he said: "Don't you know that Sakyamuni Buddha has a verse that says: 'The Dharma is lawless, and the Dharma is lawless. Now that it is lawless, how can Dharma be law?'? If you understand this meaning, you will be called a monk, and it will be a good thing. Cultivation."

As for the views of "existence" and "nothing", Zen Master Huangbo also once taught the public: "The Dharma is not ordinary and holy. The Dharma does not exist (the Dharma is not possible), don't Do not have any view; the Dharma is not non-existent (there is no Dharma and it is Dharma), so do not have the view. Existence and non-existence are all just emotional views (so now that there is no way to do it, how can the Dharma be the law)." This sentence can also be used as a saying. Footnotes to this verse.