黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.36
黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.36
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1.36
上堂,云:「道不假修,但莫污染;禪不假學,貴在息心。心息故心心無慮,不修故步步道場。無慮則無三界可出,不修則無菩提可求。不出不求,由是教乘之說;若是衲僧,合作麼生?」良久云:「菩薩無頭空合掌,金剛無脚謾張拳。」下座。
Ascending the hall, he said: "The Way does not rely on cultivation; merely do not defile it. Chan does not rely on study; what is valued is setting the mind at rest. Because the mind is at rest, mind after mind is free of deliberation; because there is no cultivation, step after step is the bodhimaṇḍa. Free of deliberation, there are no three realms to leave; without cultivation, there is no bodhi to seek. Not leaving and not seeking—this is still the talk of the doctrinal vehicles. If you are patch-robed monks, what should you do?" After a long pause, he said: "The bodhisattva has no head and emptily clasps his palms; the vajra-deva has no feet and vainly opens his fists." He descended from the seat.
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