撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.84

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偏位雖偏亦圓兩意，緣中辨得是有語中無語。　逐位揀曰：「偏位雖偏亦圓兩意者，為用處不立的的，的的則真不常用也。」　別揀曰：「偏位雖偏亦圓者，用中無物無觸，是兩意雖就用中明，為語中不傷，此乃竟日道如不道。」　別時揀曰：「偏位却圓，亦具緣中不觸。」

“Though the biased rank is biased, it also rounds out the two meanings; discerned within conditions, it is having no-words within words.” Discriminating rank by rank, it is said: “That ‘though the biased rank is biased, it also rounds out the two meanings’ is because in the locus of its function it does not establish definiteness; if it were definite, then the true would not be constantly functional.” Another discrimination says: “That ‘though the biased rank is biased, it is also rounded’ means that within function there is no object and no obstruction; these two meanings, though clarified in terms of function, because they cause no injury within words, this is indeed speaking all day long like not having spoken.” In a discrimination made on another occasion, it was said: “The biased rank yet is rounded; it also possesses non-obstruction within conditions.”