[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [圓悟佛果禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997) › 10.18 # 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 10.18 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 10.18 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [10.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.10.18) 曾先生請，小參云：「全機不動，會群像於目前；覿面相呈，截千差於格外。動則影現，覺即氷生，不動不覺，直下揑目。箇中有一條路，蓋天蓋地，蓋色蓋聲，密密綿綿，平平穩穩。若是箇曹溪門下客，直到解脫處，更不落二落三，未舉覺已前，早是落二落三了也，何況舉覺言詮，總納敗闕。所以道：『西天二十八祖亦如是，唐土六祖亦如是，天下老和尚亦如是，山僧亦如是。』到這裏，不著眼試觀看，不著耳試聽看。若向箇裏一時截得斷、把得定、作得主，與千聖把手，同一正因同一解脫。然雖如是，正當恁麼時，不立階梯一句作麼生道？還委悉麼？聲前截斷千差路，出格唯憑作者知。」復頌云：「一著當機截眾流，選官選佛兩俱優，相逢相見呵呵笑，天上人間得自由。」 > At an informal gathering requested by Mr. Zeng, the Master said: "When the complete dynamic does not move, it gathers all images before the eyes; when meeting face-to-face, it cuts off a thousand distinctions beyond the conventional. If moved, shadows appear; if perceived, ice forms; if neither moved nor perceived, it is directly rubbing one's eyes. Within it there is a path: covering heaven and earth, covering color and sound, dense and continuous, smooth and steady. If you are a traveler of the gate of Caoxi, arriving directly at the place of liberation, you do not fall into second or third. Even before it is brought up, one has already fallen into second and third, let alone bringing it up in verbal explanations, which are entirely collapses and failures. Therefore it is said: 'The twenty-eight Indian Patriarchs were like this, the six Chinese Patriarchs were like this, all the old monks under heaven were like this, and this mountain monk is also like this.' Arriving here, try looking without using your eyes, try listening without using your ears. If right here you can cut it off, hold it fast, and be the master all at once, you will join hands with the thousand sages, sharing the same right cause and the same liberation. Although it is like this, right at such a time, how do you utter the phrase of establishing no steps? Do you understand? / Before sound, cut off the paths of a thousand distinctions; / Going beyond the conventional relies solely on the knower." / He added in verse: / "A single move meeting the dynamic cuts off all streams; / Choosing an official or choosing a Buddha are both supreme. / Meeting and seeing each other with hearty laughter, / In heaven and among humans, one attains complete freedom." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 10.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.10.17) - [Next: 10.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.10.19) - [Up: 10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.10) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997~en-mt.10.18) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.10.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.10.18) · Pramāṇa