撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄 2.23

2.23

Some come with mutual integration: here, one does not speak of having speech or being speechless; here, one must simply go forward facing straight ahead. Here, one cannot fail to be completely adaptable; the matter must be completely adaptable. (Those that come with mutual integration: because the momentum of the speech is neither biased nor correct, neither existent nor non-existent, like whole yet not whole, seeming deficient yet not deficient, one can only go forward facing straight ahead. Going forward, no target is established; not establishing a target, it is the most wondrous speech, a realm not rounded off by ordinary feelings. As when the late master spoke for Mañjuśrī drinking tea, saying, "Can you borrow this to take a look?" Or as when Cuiwei said, "What do you gobble down every day?")