摩訶止觀 1.157

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名字即者，理雖即是，日用不知，以未聞三諦，全不識佛法，如牛羊眼，不解方隅。或從知識，或從經卷，聞上所說一實菩提，於名字中通達解了，知一切法皆是佛法。是為「名字即菩提」，亦是「名字止觀」。若未聞時，處處馳求。既得聞已，攀覓心息，名「止」；但信法性，不信其諸，名為「觀」。

‘Identity in verbal expression’ means: although principle is immediately so, one uses it daily without knowing, because having not yet heard of the three truths, one completely fails to recognize the Buddha Dharma, like the eyes of oxen and sheep, not understanding directions. Either from spiritual friends or from sūtra scrolls, one hears the one real bodhi explained above, and within names and words thoroughly penetrates and understands it, knowing that all phenomena are the Buddha Dharma. This is ‘bodhi in verbal expression’, and is also ‘calming and contemplation in verbal expression’. Before having heard it, one runs and seeks everywhere; once having heard it, the mind of climbing and seeking ceases, which is named ‘calming’; merely having faith in dharmatā and not having faith in other things is named ‘contemplation’.