鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.31

1.31

師示眾云：「道流！切要求取真正見解，向天下橫行，免被這一般精魅惑亂。無事是貴人，但莫造作，秖是平常。爾擬向外傍家求過覓脚手，錯了也。秖擬求佛，佛是名句。爾還識馳求底麼？三世十方佛祖出來也秖為求法，如今參學道流也秖為求法。得法始了，未得依前輪回五道。云何是法？法者是心法，心法無形，通貫十方，目前現用；人信不及，便乃認名認句，向文字中求意度佛法，天地懸殊。道流！山僧說法，說什麼法？說心地法，便能入凡、入聖，入淨、入穢，入真、入俗。要且不是爾真俗凡聖能與一切真俗凡聖安著名字，真俗凡聖與此人安著名字不得。道流！把得便用，更不著名字，號之為玄旨。山僧說法與天下人別，秖如有箇文殊、普賢出來，目前各現一身問法，纔道咨和尚，我早辨了也。老僧穩坐，更有道流來相見時，我盡辨了也。何以如此？秖為我見處別，外不取凡聖、內不住根本，見徹更不疑謬。」

The master addressed the assembly, saying: "Followers of the Way! Above all you must seek true and correct insight and stride freely across the world, so that you avoid being deluded and confused by this sort of goblin. One who has nothing to do is a noble person; just do not engage in contrived action, but simply be ordinary. If you intend to look outside, going from door to door searching for maneuvers, you have made a mistake. If you just intend to seek the Buddha, 'Buddha' is a nominal phrase. Do you still recognize the one who runs about seeking? The Buddhas and patriarchs of the three times and ten directions appeared only to seek the Dharma; today's followers of the Way who practice and study are also only seeking the Dharma. Only when you obtain the Dharma are you finished; before you obtain it, you transmigrate as before through the five destinies. What is the Dharma? The Dharma is the mind-dharma. The mind-dharma is formless, penetrates the ten directions, and functions right before your eyes. Because people lack sufficient trust, they identify with names and phrases, seeking to fathom the Buddha-Dharma from written words—they are as far apart as heaven and earth! Followers of the Way! When this mountain monk explains the Dharma, what Dharma do I explain? I explain the mind-ground Dharma, which can enter the ordinary and the sacred, enter the pure and the defiled, enter the true and the conventional. Yet it is not your conventional, true, ordinary, or sacred that can assign names to all conventional, true, ordinary, and sacred—conventional, true, ordinary, and sacred cannot assign names to this person. Followers of the Way! Grasp it and immediately use it without attaching names; it is called the 'mysterious purport.' When this mountain monk explains the Dharma, it is different from everyone else in the world. Even if a Mañjuśrī or Samantabhadra were to appear, each manifesting a body before me to ask about the Dharma, as soon as they said 'May I ask, Reverend?', I would have already discerned them. When this old monk sits firmly and other followers of the Way come to meet me, I have discerned them completely. Why is this so? It is only because my view is different: externally I do not grasp the ordinary or sacred, and internally I do not abide in the root. Seeing through completely, I harbor no doubts or errors."