圓悟佛果禪師語錄 10.19

10.19

祖上人請小參，師云：「生身父母居堂上，從本爺娘在頂門，一念頓消諸祖意，堪任補報最深恩。一漚未發已前，滔滔流水，一塵未舉之際，茫茫剎塵。若是具透關眼、有過量見，即知千聖萬聖羅籠不住。若也一漚已發、一塵已舉，待著眼用意，盡未來際窮虛空劫，畢竟摸索不著。所以道：『盡大地是般若光。光未發時，無佛無眾生，消息從什麼處得來？』正當恁麼時，無佛無眾生，無高無下，無得無失，無彼無我處，還薦得麼？若薦不得，不免打葛藤去也。道是無得麼？且喜沒交涉，道是有得麼？轉見沒交涉。道是不有不無得麼？轉更沒交涉。道是離四句絕百非？直是沒交涉。須知道一條路一種機，三世諸佛依此成立，一大藏教依此詮註，乃至世間虛空凡聖山河大地，無邊香水海，不可說不可說，全從他流出。只今若知一漚未發已前恩德，則自己脚跟下，如千日並照，如暗得燈，如貧得寶，如渡得船，如民得王，於一切時無一念落虛，無參雜時，全體恁麼來，全體恁麼去。只如空劫已前，那畔一段事作麼生，還委悉麼？照開千聖頂門眼，放出威音物外春。」復頌云：「父母恩深重，過於蓋與載，若欲圖補報，碎身莫能賽。唯有般若力，一句截情愛，凱風吹棘心，二百四十歲。」

Requested for an informal gathering by Senior Monk Zu, the Master said: "One's physical father and mother dwell in the main hall; one's parents from the fundamental origin reside on the crown of the head. In a single thought, the intentions of the patriarchs are suddenly dissolved; this is capable of requiting the deepest debt of gratitude. Before a single bubble has arisen, the flowing water rushes along; at the moment a single speck of dust has not yet been raised, the lands and specks of dust spread vastly. If one possesses the eye that penetrates the barrier and has an extraordinary view, one immediately knows that a thousand sages and ten thousand sages cannot net or cage it. But if a single bubble has already arisen and a single speck of dust has already been raised, and one waits to focus the eye and use the intellect, then to the end of future time, exhausting the kalpas of empty space, in the end one can never grope and grasp it. Therefore it is said: 'The entire great earth is the light of prajñā. When the light has not yet manifested, there is no Buddha and no sentient beings; from what place does the news come?' Just at such a moment, where there is no Buddha and no sentient beings, no high and no low, no gain and no loss, no that and no self—do you still comprehend it? If you cannot comprehend it, I cannot help but make entangled vines. If you say it is non-attainment, I am glad to tell you that there is no connection. If you say it is attainment, it is all the more seen to have no connection. If you say it is attaining neither existence nor non-existence, it is still further from having any connection. If you say it is being detached from the four propositions and eradicating the hundred negations, there is simply no connection at all! You must know that this single road and this single dynamic mechanism are what the Buddhas of the three periods depend on to be established, what the entire great canon of teachings expounds upon, and even what the mundane world, empty space, commoners and sages, the mountains, rivers, the great earth, and the boundless fragrant water seas—ineffable and ineffable—all flow forth from! Just now, if you know the benevolent virtue before a single bubble has arisen, then under your own feet it will be like a thousand suns shining together, like getting a lamp in the dark, like the impoverished finding treasure, like crossing [a river] and getting a boat, like the common folk getting a king; at all times not a single thought falls into vanity, and there is no time of mixture: the whole substance comes thus, and the whole substance goes thus. Just as for that matter beyond, before the kalpa of emptiness, how is it? Do you still understand? It illuminates and opens the eye on the crown of the head of a thousand sages, releasing the spring beyond things of the Sound of Majesty." He then added a verse: "The kindness of parents is profound and heavy, exceeding heaven's covering and earth's bearing. / If one wishes to plan to requite it, crushing one's body could never repay it. / There is only the power of prajñā: a single phrase severs affection and love. / The gentle south wind blows upon the heart of the brambles, through two hundred and forty years."