註華嚴經題法界觀門頌 1.90

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Leaving the one and taking up the seven, the words are direct and the speech is precise. If you understand it in this way, you sever your emotional consciousness. Hence the Buddha said: "This Dharma is not something that conceptual deliberation and discrimination can understand." Therefore, when a monk asked Dongshan, "What is the Buddha?" Dongshan said, "Three pounds of flax." When a monk asked Fayan, "What is the Buddha?" Fayan said, "You are Huichao." All other answers concerning the Buddha are like this, sharing the same fine basis as these words of the Great Master. Why is this? Have you not heard it said: "Huaizhou achyranthes, Qingzhou dates—in the end, they yield to the excellence of their own places of origin"? Yimen continues below:

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