汾陽無德禪師語錄 1.12

1.12

昔者白象降生，教興於權實；青蓮視瞬，義著於師承。厥後隻履西歸、一花東布，世系聯續、開悟寖廣，然而根器各異、宗致迭舉。少林之嗣既分皮髓之淺深，大寂之徒亦著心眉之階級，雖攪為一呼，匪酥酪醍醐之殊；然列彼三車，推羊鹿大牛之別。趨覺城而固有淹速，非智眼而孰克炤明。

In the past, the white elephant descended to be born, and the teachings arose through the provisional and the real; the blue-lotus eyes gazed and blinked, and the meaning became clear through master and disciple. Thereafter, a single shoe returned to the west, and a single flower spread to the east; lineages succeeded one another, and awakenings gradually broadened. Yet spiritual capacities varied, and the aims of the traditions were raised in turn. After the heirs of Shaolin were differentiated by the shallowness or depth of skin and marrow, the disciples of Daji also displayed stages of mind and eyebrow. Though stirred together into one, is there not a difference between curds and clarified butter? Still, setting out those three carts, one distinguishes the sheep, the deer, and the great ox. In rushing toward the Citadel of Awakening, there are naturally the slow and the swift; without the eye of wisdom, who could illuminate them?