撫州曹山元證禪師語錄 1.112

1.112

The master said, "Ordinary feelings and sagely views are golden chains on the mysterious road; one must directly interact and harmonize. Now, one who takes the food of right livelihood must possess the three kinds of falls: the water buffalo, not receiving food, and not severing sound and form (present note). Just falling away—what sort of person's affair is this?" Jian said, "If you wish to know, it is entering among different species and not acknowledging the matters on the śramaṇa's side. Therefore the ancients provisionally borrowed the water buffalo as a different species; it is only a different species in phenomenal terms, not a different species in speech (one must examine it within the four kinds of different species)."