鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.33

1.33

問：「如何是佛？魔？」師云：「爾一念心疑處是魔；爾若達得萬法無生，心如幻化，更無一塵、一法，處處清淨是佛。然佛與魔是染、淨二境，約山僧見處，無佛、無眾生，無古、無今，得者便得，不歷時節，無修、無證，無得、無失，一切時中更無別法。設有一法過此者，我說如夢、如化。山僧所說皆是。道流！即今目前孤明歷歷地聽者，此人處處不滯，通貫十方，三界自在，入一切境差別不能回換，一剎那間透入法界，逢佛說佛、逢祖說祖、逢羅漢說羅漢、逢餓鬼說餓鬼，向一切處游履國土教化眾生未曾離一念，隨處清淨，光透十方，萬法一如。道流！大丈夫兒今日方知本來無事，秖為爾信不及，念念馳求，捨頭覓頭，自不能歇。如圓頓菩薩入法界現身，向淨土中厭凡忻聖，如此之流取捨，未忘染淨心在。如禪宗見解，又且不然，直是現今更無時節。山僧說處皆是一期藥病相治，總無實法。若如是見得，是真出家，日消萬兩黃金。道流！莫取次被諸方老師印破面門道，我解禪、解道，辯似懸河，皆是造地獄業。若是真正學道人，不求世間過，切急要求真正見解。若達真正見，解圓明方始了畢。」

A monk asked: "What are Buddha and Māra?" The master said: "Where a single thought of doubt arises in your mind, that is Māra. If you understand that the ten thousand dharmas are without arising and that the mind is like an illusion, without a single dust mote or a single dharma, being everywhere pure—that is Buddha. Yet Buddha and Māra are two environments of defilement and purity. In the view of this mountain monk, there is no Buddha and no sentient beings, no antiquity and no present; those who attain it attain it right away without passing through periods of time, with no cultivation and no realization, no gain and no loss, and at all times there is no other dharma. Even if there were a dharma surpassing this, I would say it is like a dream, like an illusion. What this mountain monk speaks of is all this. Followers of the Way! The one who right now is solitary, luminous, and distinctly listening before your eyes—this person is unhindered everywhere, penetrates the ten directions, is at ease in the three realms, enters all differences of environments without being transformed, penetrates into the dharmadhātu in a single kṣaṇa, speaks of Buddha when meeting a Buddha, speaks of patriarchs when meeting a patriarch, speaks of arhats when meeting an arhat, speaks of hungry ghosts when meeting a hungry ghost, travels through lands everywhere to teach and transform sentient beings without ever departing from a single thought, is pure everywhere, shines light penetrating the ten directions, with the ten thousand dharmas as one suchness. Followers of the Way! A great man only today comes to know that originally there is nothing to do. It is only because you lack sufficient trust, running about seeking in every thought, abandoning your head to look for a head, unable to put it to rest on your own. Like the bodhisattvas of the complete and sudden [teachings] who manifest their bodies upon entering the dharmadhātu, loathing the ordinary and delighting in the sacred in the pure lands—those of this sort grasping and rejecting have not yet forgotten the mind of defilement and purity. As for the insight of the Chan school, it is not like this at all: it is directly right now, without any periods of time. Everything this mountain monk speaks of is just medicine to treat ailments for a time; there is no real dharma at all. If you can see it like this, you are a true renunciant, worthy of consuming ten thousand ounces of gold a day. Followers of the Way! Do not casually let the old teachers of various quarters brand your forehead, saying, 'I understand Chan, I understand the Way,' with eloquence flowing like a river—all this is creating hell karma. If you are a true person studying the Way, do not seek the faults of the world, but urgently seek true and correct insight. If you realize true and correct insight and become completely clear, only then are you finished."