撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄 2.19

2.19

The correct rank is yet biased; if distinguished within the biased, it fulfills both meanings. (That the correct rank is yet biased is because it does not face objects; although it does not face objects, it possesses them completely. No function within the correct is biased; total function is complete—these are the two meanings. It was asked, "What is total?" He said, "One who does not look back is one who has attained it." This correct rank does not clarify coming. If a Buddha appears in the world, it is so; if a Buddha does not appear in the world, it is also so. Therefore, thousands of sages and myriads of sages all return to the correct rank to undertake it. The biased within the correct nevertheless possesses this single rank; first of all, it must not be stirred. As when scholars discriminate being uniquely free beyond objects and arising prior to the many sages, calling it the correct rank being yet complete: this in fact wrongs the correct rank. Such exemplary words are the tracks remaining after the ancients spoke; one still has not attained speechlessness within speech. This again is called 'not the correct rank,' because there is speech within speech. This can be called integration with illness; it cannot be called mutual integration coming along.)