圓悟佛果禪師語錄 15.30

15.30

蔣山門下，無禪可說、無道可傳，雖聚半千衲子，唯以箇金剛圈栗棘蓬，跳者著力跳，吞者用意吞，莫怪無滋味太嶮峻。或若驀地體得，如晝錦還鄉，千人萬人只仰羨得，要且覓他所從來不得。所謂人人本分事也，才生心動念承當擔荷，早不本分了也。直得萬機休罷、千聖不携，亦猶有依倚在。快須擺撥透脫那邊去始得，所以道：「但有纖毫即是塵，舉意便遭魔所撓。」成就一切總只由他，破壞一切亦只由他，奇特殊勝緣，恒沙功德藏，無量妙莊嚴，超世希有事，皆所成就；慳貪憎妬、情識執著，有為有漏、垢染雜亂，解路名相、知見妄想，皆所破壞也。唯他能轉一切物，一切物不能轉他，雖無形段面目，而包括十虛含凡育聖，若有取之即墮見刺，卒摸索不著。

Under the gates of Mount Jiang, there is no Chan to speak of and no Way to transmit. Although half a thousand patch-robed monks are gathered, there are only the diamond cage and chestnut burr: those who jump, jump with effort; those who swallow, swallow with intent—do not blame them for having no flavor or being too steep. If you suddenly realize it, it will be like returning home in embroidered robes by day; thousands of people will only look up in admiration, yet searching for where it came from, they cannot find it. This is what is called everyone's fundamental lot; the moment you give rise to thoughts to take it up and shoulder it, it is already no longer the fundamental lot. Even if ten thousand workings cease and the thousand sages do not guide you, there is still something to rely on. You must quickly shake it off and break through to the other side; therefore it is said: 'If there is a fine hair, that is already dust; the moment an intention is raised, one is disturbed by demons.' To accomplish everything is entirely up to it; to destroy everything is also entirely up to it. Rare and wonderful conditions, treasuries of merits like sands of the Ganges, immeasurable wondrous adornments, and rare matters transcending the world are all accomplished by it; stinginess, greed, hatred, jealousy, emotional consciousness, clinging, the conditioned, the defiled, the impure and confused, paths of intellectual understanding, names and marks, views and deluded thoughts are all destroyed by it. Only it can turn all things, and all things cannot turn it; though it has no form or face, it encompasses the ten directions of emptiness and contains the ordinary and nourishes the sage. If one grasps it, one immediately falls into the thorn of views, ultimately unable to grope for it.