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# 汾陽無德禪師語錄 3.49

汾陽無德禪師語錄 3.49

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [3.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1992.3.49)

余有素屏風，美施今古蹤，端形皆皓色，頗得稱禪宮。不裝點，勿舒功，能遮劫壞鼓南風，煙塵雲霧俱弗著，萬象森羅總現中。愚不識，智先通，積雪為真雪莫同，定光曾受能仁記，釋迦因此化瞑矇。方整體，靜圓容，只在人天天勿窮，士庶公侯為景秀。貧賤愚，癡隔壁，聾可珍仰實難逢，百千萬劫失形容，如今不識還巧妙，爭如掌翫素屏風。筋力有，勿痕跡，不使良工一點力，珂月長舒玉練明，照爍乾坤用無德。

> I have a plain folding screen, / beautifully displaying traces of past and present; / its upright form is entirely gleaming white, / quite suited to be called a Chan temple treasure. / Without ornamentation, requiring no effort, / it can ward off the southern winds that blow when the kalpa is destroyed; / smoke, dust, clouds, and fog leave no trace upon it; / the myriad phenomena all appear within it. / The foolish do not recognize it; the wise penetrate it first; / accumulating snow as reality, it is unlike ordinary snow. / Dīpaṃkara once gave prophecy to the Capable and Benevolent One; / Śākyamuni through this transformed the blind and ignorant. / Square and upright in substance, serene and complete in appearance, / it abides solely among humans and devas, yet heaven cannot fathom it; / for scholars, commoners, dukes, and marquises, it is an exquisite sight. / The poor, lowly, foolish, and deluded are separated by a wall; / deaf to it, yet it is truly worthy of veneration and difficult to encounter; / through hundreds of thousands of myriads of kalpas, they lose its appearance; / now, though they do not recognize it, it remains ingenious; / how could anything compare to holding and enjoying the plain folding screen? / Possessing strength, leaving no trace, / it does not employ the slightest effort of a skilled artisan; / the cornelian moon long shines forth with the brightness of white jade silk, / illuminating heaven and earth, functioning without contrivance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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