撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.15

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紙衣道者來參，師問：「莫是紙衣道者否？」云：「不敢。」師曰：「如何是紙衣下事？」道者云：「一裘纔挂體，萬法悉皆如。」師曰：「如何是紙衣下用？」道者近前應諾便立脫，師曰：「汝秖解恁麼去，何不解恁麼來。」道者忽開眼問云：「一靈真性不假胞胎時如何？」師曰：「未是妙。」道者云：「如何是妙？」師曰：「不借借。」道者珍重便化。師示頌曰：「覺性圓明無相身，莫將知見妄疎親，念異便於玄體昧，心差不與道為隣。情分萬法沈前境，識鑒多端喪本真，如是句中全曉會，了然無事昔時人。」

The Daoist in Paper Clothes came to visit. The Master asked, 'Are you not the Daoist in Paper Clothes?' [The Daoist] said, 'I would not dare [claim it].' The Master said, 'What is the matter under the paper clothes?' The Daoist said, 'Once this single robe hangs upon the body, the ten thousand dharmas are all as such.' The Master said, 'What is the function under the paper clothes?' The Daoist came forward, answered 'Yes', and thereupon passed away standing up. The Master said, 'You only understand how to go like that; why do you not understand how to come like that?' The Daoist suddenly opened his eyes and asked, 'What about when the one numinous true nature does not rely on a womb?' The Master said, 'That is not yet wondrous.' The Daoist said, 'What is wondrous?' The Master said, 'Not borrowing what is borrowed.' The Daoist said, 'Take care,' and immediately passed away. The Master gave an instructional verse, saying: 'The nature of awakening is perfectly bright, a formless body; / Do not use intellectual views to falsely make distant or near. / With a discordant thought, one is immediately blind to the mysterious substance; / With an erring mind, one is not a neighbour to the Way. / Sentiments divide the ten thousand dharmas, sinking into external objects; / Diverse cognitions and judgments ruin one's original reality. / If within such words one thoroughly understands, / Clearly there is nothing to do, the person of former times.'