撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄 2.31
English (machine translation) 2.31
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2.31
Attaining within the integrated (wondrous clasping):
Not falling into existence or non-existence, who dares harmonize? (Not facing directly. 'He is an adept.' 'Just right for discussing. What do you call discussing? Speak it forth, saying: Ask.')
Everyone wishes to leave the current stream, (All wish to transcend the kind. 'What place is there to stick one's head out?' Also: 'Move and you die.' Also: 'If so, then one is happy everywhere.')
Yet in the end they return to sit amid the charcoal. (One. 'Then it can be known; what must one do?' 'One cannot deceive him.' Also: 'If so, then fortunately it is I.' The matters in this rank generally take the correct rank as host. If within the correct rank it is also without speech, there is also no principle of confronting a guest. If confronting a guest, the ultimate point of the biased rank is called confronting a guest. As for integration and the like, it is always momentary, with demands differing; sometimes confronting, sometimes not confronting; also called having words within no-words, and having no-words within words, extensively as clarified in the biased and correct ranks. Moreover, there are words that do not enter the biased or correct ranks, which are especially difficult to use for people; it must be a clear-eyed person to manage it, not accepting directions to point east or draw west.)
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