圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.16

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摩竭陀國親行此令，少林面壁全提正宗，而時流錯認、遂尚泯默，以為無縫罅、無摸索，壁立萬仞，殊不知本分事，恣情識摶量便為高見，此大病也。從上來事本不如是，巖頭云：「只露目前些子，箇如擊石火、閃電光。」若搆不得不用疑著，此是向上人行履處，除非知有，莫能知之。趙州喫茶去，祕魔巖擎扠，雪峯輥毬，禾山打鼓，俱胝一指，歸宗拽石，玄沙未徹，德山棒臨濟喝，並是透頂透底，直截剪斷葛藤，大機大用，千差萬別會歸一源，可以與人解粘去縛。若隨語作解，即須與本分草料，譬如七斛驢乳，只以一滴師子乳滴悉皆迸散。要脚下傳持相繼綿遠，直須不徇人情，勿使容易，乃端的也。末後一句始到牢關，誠哉是言。透脫死生、提持正印，全是此箇時節，唯踏著上頭關捩子底，便諳悉也。

In Magadha this order was executed directly; in Shaolin, facing the wall, the genuine lineage was fully brought forth. Yet contemporaries mistakenly understood this and subsequently esteemed obliteration and silence, considering it seamless and ungraspable, standing like a wall of ten thousand fathoms, entirely unaware of the fundamental matter; indulging in discursive intellect and measuring, they took it for high views, which is a great disease. The matter handed down from above was originally not like this. Yantou said: 'Just expose a little bit right before your eyes; this is like a spark struck from stone or a flash of lightning.' If you cannot grasp it, there is no need to harbor doubts; this is the place where transcendent people walk—unless one knows it directly, no one can know it. Zhaozhou's 'Go drink tea,' the Master of Bimo Cliff brandishing his pitchfork, Xuefeng rolling the balls, Heshan beating the drum, Juzhi's one finger, Guizong dragging the stone, Xuansha's 'Not yet penetrated,' Deshan's staff and Linji's shout—all penetrate through crown and base, directly severing the entangling vines. With great potential and great function, the thousands of differences and myriad distinctions all return to the single source, capable of untying entanglements and stripping away bonds for others. If they form conceptual understandings based on words, one must immediately administer the fundamental provender—just as with seven bushels of donkey's milk, a single drop of lion's milk causes it all to burst and scatter. If you want the transmission beneath your feet to succeed continuously and last long, you must strictly avoid yielding to human sentiments and never make it easy; only then will it be authentic. 'Only with the final phrase does one reach the iron barrier'—how true these words are! To penetrate and escape birth and death and to uphold the correct seal are entirely a matter of this moment. Only those who step on the upper mechanism will know it intimately.