[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985) › 1.45 # 鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.45 鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.45 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985.1.45) 「大德！山僧如是所舉，皆是辨魔揀異，知其邪正。道流！寔情大難，佛法幽玄，解得可可地。山僧竟日與他說破，學者總不在意，千遍萬遍脚底踏過，黑沒焌地，無一箇形段，歷歷孤明。學人信不及，便向名句上生解，年登半百，秖管傍家負死屍行，檐却檐子天下走，索草鞋錢有日在。「大德！山僧說向外無法。學人不會，便即向裏作解，便即倚壁坐，舌拄上齶，湛然不動，取此為是祖門佛法也。大錯，是爾若取不動清淨境為是，爾即認他無明為郎主。古人云：『湛湛黑暗深坑寔可怖畏。』此之是也。爾若認他動者是，一切草木皆解動，應可是道也。所以，動者是風大、不動者是地大，動與不動俱無自性。爾若向動處捉他，他向不動處立；爾若向不動處捉他，他向動處立。譬如潛泉魚鼓波而自躍。大德！動與不動是二種境，還是無依道人用動、用不動。如諸方學人來，山僧此間作三種根器斷：如中下根器來，我便奪其境，而不除其法；或中上根器來，我便境法俱奪；如上上根器來，我便境法人俱不奪；如有出格見解人來，山僧此間便全體作用不歷根器。 > "Virtuous ones, what this mountain monk has cited here is all to discern demons, to pick out abnormalities, and to know what is false and what is correct. Followers of the Way, the real truth is extremely difficult; the Buddha-Dharma is profound and subtle, understood only by a rare few. This mountain monk explains it thoroughly to them all day long, yet students pay no attention at all. Trodden underfoot a thousand times, ten thousand times, it is pitch-black, without a single shape or form, yet distinctly, solitarily luminous. Students cannot believe it deeply enough, and so they give rise to interpretations based on names and phrases; reaching the age of fifty, they merely carry a corpse about from neighbor to neighbor, shoulder their carrying poles, and rush around all under heaven, but the day will come when they must pay for their straw sandals! Virtuous ones, this mountain monk says that outside there is no Dharma. When students do not understand, they immediately produce interpretations inwardly, sitting leaning against a wall with tongue pressed against the palate, serenely motionless, taking this to be the Buddha-Dharma of the ancestral school! What a great mistake! If you take an unmoving, pure sphere to be it, you are recognizing ignorance as your master! An ancient said: 'A fathomless pit of pitch darkness is truly terrifying'—this is precisely what is meant. If you take the moving one to be it, all plants and trees know how to move; should they be the Way? Therefore, that which moves is the wind element, and that which is motionless is the earth element; both the moving and the motionless are without self-nature. If you grasp him in movement, he stands in the motionless; if you grasp him in the motionless, he stands in movement. It is like a fish hidden in a spring stirring the waves and leaping of itself. Virtuous ones, movement and motionlessness are two kinds of objective spheres; it is rather the person of the Way who relies on nothing who uses movement and uses motionlessness. When students come from various quarters, this mountain monk judges them here according to three kinds of capacity: if someone of medium or inferior capacity comes, I snatch away his sphere, but do not remove his Dharma; or if someone of medium or superior capacity comes, I snatch away both sphere and Dharma; if someone of supreme capacity comes, I snatch away neither sphere, nor Dharma, nor person; if someone of extraordinary insight comes, this mountain monk here acts with the entire substance, disregarding the levels of capacity." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985.1.44) - [Next: 1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985.1.46) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985~en-mt.1.45) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [人天眼目](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2006.1.17) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985.1.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1985.1.45) · Pramāṇa