鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.4

1.4

The Bhagavat entrusted the 'treasury of the true Dharma eye, the sublime mind of nirvāṇa' to Mahākāśyapa, who became the first patriarch. Reaching the twenty-eighth patriarch Bodhidharma, he brought the esoteric seal of all Buddhas throughout the ten directions and the three times and came to Cīnasthāna; only then did China first know that the Buddha Dharma contains a special transmission outside the teachings, not establishing words and letters, directly pointing to the human mind, and seeing into one's nature and attaining Buddhahood. After that, the utpala flower appeared in its season, rich with fragrance, one flower with five petals, its fragrant wind encircling the earth and its precious light illuminating heaven, each radiating immeasurable brilliance to illuminate the great trichiliocosm.