筠州洞山悟本禪師語錄 1.117

1.117

曹山親入師室，密印所解，盤桓數載乃辭師。師問：「什麼處去？」云：「不變異處去。」師曰：「不變異處豈有去耶？」云：「去亦不變異。」師又曰：「子歸鄉莫打飛鳶嶺過麼？」云：「是。」師曰：「來時莫打飛鳶嶺來麼？」云：「是。」師曰：「有一人不打飛鳶嶺過便到此間，子還知麼？」云：「渠無彼往。」師曰：「子見甚道理便道渠無彼往？」云：「若不到這田地，爭解恁麼道？」師遂囑曰：「吾在雲巖先師處親印寶鏡三昧，事窮的要，今付于汝。」師又曰：「末法時代人多乾慧，若要辨驗真偽，有三種滲漏：一曰、見滲漏，機不離位，墮在毒海；二曰、情滲漏，滯在向背，見處偏枯；三曰、語滲漏，究妙失宗，機昧終始。學者濁智流轉，不出此三種。子宜知之。」

Caoshan personally entered the Master's room and had his understanding secretly verified. After lingering for several years, he took his leave of the Master. The Master asked, "Where are you going?" He said, "To an unchanging place." The Master said, "In an unchanging place, how could there be any going?" He said, "Going is also unchanging." The Master also said, "When you return to your native village, do you not pass over Feiyuan Ridge?" He said, "Yes." The Master said, "When coming here, did you not come by Feiyuan Ridge?" He said, "Yes." The Master said, "There is one person who does not pass over Feiyuan Ridge and yet arrives here. Do you know him?" He said, "He has no 'there' to go to." The Master said, "What principle do you see, that you say he has no 'there' to go to?" He said, "If one has not reached this ground, how could one understand how to speak like this?" The Master then instructed him, saying, "At the place of my late master Yunyan, I personally received the seal of the Precious Mirror Samādhi, which exhausts phenomena to the utmost essence; I now entrust it to you." The Master also said, "In the age of the latter-day Dharma, people have mostly dry wisdom. If you wish to distinguish the true from the false, there are three kinds of leakage: first, the leakage of views—the dynamic capacity does not leave its position and falls into a sea of poison; second, the leakage of sentiment—it stagnates in inclination and aversion, and one's view becomes one-sided and withered; third, the leakage of words—investigating the subtle, it loses the essential principle, and the dynamic capacity obscures beginning and end. The defiled intellect of students cycles round and round, never stepping beyond these three kinds. You ought to know this."