圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.22

14.22

此門瞥脫契證，即是素來不曾經人，壞持拍盲百不知一，但以利根種性孟八郎，便透直下承當，要用便用要行即行，無如許般心行純熟，頓放著所在便得休歇安樂，終日飽齁齁地，不妨真正。最難整理，是半前落後，認得瞻視光影，聽聞不隨聲，守寂湛之性，便為至寶懷在胸中，終日昭昭靈靈，雜知雜解自擔負，我亦有見處，曾得宗師印證，惟只增長我見，便雌黃古今印證佛祖，輕毀一切，問著即作伎倆，粘作一堆，殊不知末上便錯認定盤星了也。及至與渠作方便解粘去縛，便謂移換人捩轉人，作恁麼心行，似此有甚救處？除是驀地自解知，非却將來，須放得下，作善知識。遇著此等，須是大脚手與烹鍊，救得一箇半箇，得徹不妨翻邪成正，將來却是箇沒量大人。何故？只為病多諳藥性。

In this gate, the sudden awakening to realization comes from someone who has never been ruined by others—a blind fellow who knows not one thing in a hundred, yet who, as a dull fellow of sharp capacity, directly breaks through and undertakes it on the spot. If he needs to apply it, he applies it; if he needs to act, he acts. Without such practiced mental activities, wherever he drops things down he immediately finds rest and ease, completely stuffed full all day long—it is indeed authentic. What is most difficult to manage is falling into being half-advanced and half-backward: recognizing the glint of forms in the gaze, listening without following sound, keeping to a quiet and serene nature and treasuring it in one's bosom, being clear and luminous all day long, shouldering diverse knowledges and interpretations, [thinking] "I too have a perspective, and I once received the seal of a lineage master." This only increases one's view of self; then one criticizes past and present, tests Buddhas and Patriarchs, and looks down on everything. When questioned, one resorts to tricks, sticking together in a heap, not knowing that from the outset one has misread the steelyard mark. When one offers expedients to unstick them and untie their bonds, they claim that you are displacing them and turning them around; having such mental conduct, how can they be saved? Unless, all of a sudden, they realize their own error, let it go, and put it down. When acting as a kalyāṇamitra and encountering such people, one must use great hands and feet to smelt and forge them; if you can save one or half a person and make them penetrate thoroughly, it is fine to turn falsehood into correctness, and in the future they will indeed be great people of immeasurable stature. Why is this? Simply because having had many illnesses, they are thoroughly familiar with the nature of medicine.