明覺禪師語錄 2.73

2.73

Ascending the hall, the Master said, “So vast there is no exterior, so small there is no interior; half closed and half open, forming a ball and forming a lump. Since the Old Barbarian was shut off, patch-robed monks have mostly turned away from it. Let it go on endlessly through thousands and tens of thousands of kalpas; filling trenches and choking ravines, no one understands.” He struck the ground once with his staff and said, “Return to the hall.”