汾陽無德禪師語錄 1.12

1.12

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?