圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.34

14.34

達磨西來，不立文字語句，唯直指人心。若論直指，只人人本有，無明殼子裏全體應現，與從上諸聖不移易一絲毫許，所謂天真自性本淨妙明，含吐十方獨脫根塵，一片田地唯離念絕情。逈超常格大根大智，以本分力量，直下就自己根脚下承當，如萬仞懸崖撒手放身更無顧藉，教知見解礙倒底脫去，似大死人已絕氣息，到本分地上大休大歇，口鼻眼耳初無相知，手足項背各不相到，然後向寒灰死火上，頭頭上明，枯木朽株間，物物斯照，乃契合孤逈逈峭巍巍，更不須覓心覓佛，築著磕著無非外得。古來悟達百種千端，只這便是心，不必更求心；是佛，何勞更覓佛？儻於言句上作露布，境物上生解會，則墮在骨董袋中，卒撈摸不著，此忘懷絕照真諦境界也。

Bodhidharma came from the west, not establishing written words or phrases, only directly pointing to the human mind. If one speaks of direct pointing, it is merely that which everyone fundamentally possesses, fully manifesting right within the husk of ignorance, not differing by the slightest hair from all the sages of the past. It is the so-called genuine original nature, fundamentally pure and wondrously bright, containing and exhaling the ten directions, solitary and freed from sense faculties and dusts—a piece of land only [realized by] abandoning thoughts and severing sentiments. Far surpassing ordinary standards, those of great roots and great wisdom directly undertake it under their own feet by the power of their fundamental lot, like letting go of one's grip on a cliff of myriad fathoms without any lingering attachment, causing all views, understandings, and hindrances to be stripped away to the bottom, like a thoroughly dead person whose breath is already cut off. Reaching the ground of the fundamental lot, resting completely and utterly, the mouth, nose, eyes, and ears initially do not recognize one another, and hands, feet, neck, and back do not touch one another. Afterwards, upon cold ashes and dead fire, everything is clear; amidst withered trees and rotten stumps, each thing is thus illumined. Only then does one accord with what is solitary, exalted, steep, and towering; one no longer needs to seek mind or seek Buddha. Whatever one bumps against or knocks into is nothing obtained from outside. From ancient times, awakenings have had hundreds of kinds and thousands of modes; this very thing is just mind, no need to seek mind further; it is Buddha, why labor to search for Buddha again? If one weaves public proclamations upon words and phrases, or produces intellectual understanding from objects and environments, one falls into a curio bag and ultimately cannot grasp it. This is the realm of the ultimate truth where concerns are forgotten and illumination is severed.