黃龍慧南禪師語錄 1.50

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師乃云：「道無疑滯，法本隨緣，事豈強為？蓋不爾而爾，在積翠即說積翠庵人，入黃龍便說黃龍長老。爭知祖師心印，狀似鐵牛之機，去即印住，住即印破。只如不去不住，又作麼生搭印？」良久云：「煙村三月雨，別是一家春。」下座。

The master then said: "The Way has no hesitation or obstruction; dharmas fundamentally accord with conditions. How could things be forced? Simply being so without making it so, when at Jicui I spoke as a man of Jicui Hermitage, and upon entering Huanglong I speak as the elder of Huanglong. How could one know that the ancestral master's mind-seal is shaped like the iron ox's mechanism? If it goes, the seal is affixed; if it stays, the seal is broken. Just tell me, when neither going nor staying, how do you affix the seal?" After a long pause, he said: "In the misty village, the third-month rain; / Another kind of springtime for this household." He descended from the seat.