樂邦文類 5.295

5.295

The wondrous function resides herein: / Treading in existence while surveying non-existence. / The spirit, through darkness, penetrates; / Consciousness, through illumination, [surpasses] the coarse. / Piling up subtleties, it draws itself onward; / Relying on efficacy, its root is empty. / Extinguishing those threefold contemplations, / Forgetting these minutest remnants. / When did quiescent stillness begin? / Walking the mystery, penetrating the subtle. / Melding so as to forget direction, / Thereupon opening the luminous glow. / The mind roams into distant realms, / How could it fail to tread upon the turning point? / Using it with emptiness, / Meeting it with rarity. / Divine posture, condensed like heaven, / Fully reflecting the morning clouds. / Concurring with transformation, / Herding along with things. / Responding without fixed location, / Recipients divide according to their measure. / In a flash, a deep mirror; / Golden waters and swirling dust. / Sighing over this single life, / With wise discernment from the past, / Entrusting to the lofty and profound person, / We hope to rely on unseen power. / Contemplating the turn of the finest work, / It lies in the immeasurable depth. / When the ultimate thought arises, / Direct the mind to the Western extremity. (From the Lushan ji)