撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄 2.49

2.49

He said, "What is 'kind'?" I said, "Wearing fur and bearing horns." He said, "What is 'different'?" I said, "What? What?" He said, "What is practice?" I said, "If you want my head, take and chop it off." (He said, "Just as with 'different kinds', what side of the matter does it accomplish?" I said, "This matter has two sorts of different kinds: first, the śramaṇa's different kinds; second, the different kinds in phenomenal events. The different kinds in phenomenal events are the tawny cats and white oxen. The śramaṇa's different kinds are attaining freedom wherever one touches; only then is there unalterability, unlike that other. The late master asked me, 'Where are you going?' I said, 'Going to the unalterable place.' This unalterable matter has two sorts: first, every single person completely possesses the fundamental matter; second, a person who knows existence does not abandon any sounds, forms, right, or wrong, and is not obstructed by any thing whatsoever—this is called unalterable in all places, also called wearing fur and bearing horns, also called entering mud and entering water, and also called a fellow who carries out practice.")