鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.6

1.6

As for the three mysteries and three essentials, snatching away the environment and snatching away the person, his golden phrases and jade lines were like sails before the wind and horses in battle array, like swift thunder and rushing lightning, crashing through waves, penetrating precipitous fortresses, shattering enemy lines, turning heaven and revolving earth, free in all directions, practically cutting off the myriad streams, so that students of the four seas invariably bowed before his wind. Therefore his house style was steep and unyielding, solitary, stern, and hard to enter; for the wondrous application and mastery reside neither in words nor apart from words—only one who turns the entire great earth into a single eye can recognize it. At the very end, he let the treasury of the true Dharma eye be extinguished by that blind donkey.