法演禪師語錄 1.24

1.24

Ascending the hall, [the Master] cited: "Yaoshan asked Shitou: 'As for the three vehicles and twelve divisions of teaching, I have a rough understanding of them. I have heard that in the south they point directly to the human mind to see one's nature and attain Buddhahood; I am truly not clear about this and beg the Master for instruction.' Shitou said: 'Thus will not do, not thus will not do, neither thus nor not thus will not do at all.' When this mountain monk was among the assembly, I heard the brethren deliberating, saying: 'Mind itself is Buddha will not do, neither mind nor Buddha will not do.' If one speaks like that, how dare one call oneself a Chan traveler? Why? They fail to recognize that the old man Shitou was equipped with both civil and military arts, complete in both tactics and strategies. If it is Simian's view, I would also have you people understand it together: one sees only surging waves; one does not see the dragon king's palace in the sea."