[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [圓悟佛果禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997) › 15.52 # 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 15.52 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 15.52 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [15.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.15.52) 老達磨來自竺乾，豈嘗持一物？及遊梁歷魏面壁少林，無人識渠，獨可祖効勤立雪斷臂，始略垂慈，由此印心。若謂無言，從何而入？如謂有言，向伊道甚？將知須是箇人，始十分領略，乃無滲漏。所以入此門來，要是根器猛利，能疾速棄捨從前知見解路，使胸次空勞勞不留毫髮，洞然虛凝言思路絕，直契本源泯然無際，自得本有無得妙智，方號信及見徹。猶有無量無邊，莫測莫量，大機大用在。儻留些能所，墮在緣塵，則卒急未便相應。是故古德勸人直下休去歇去，此段譬如快鷹快鷂，捎雲突日，迷風透青，掀騰直截不容擬議；苟或踟蹰，乃蹉過也，其為教外別行，則可知矣。既有志於是，放下著，覿體承當一切現成，則初祖不曾來，自己亦無得。 > When old Bodhidharma came from India, did he ever bring a single thing? When he traveled through Liang and passed through Wei, facing the wall at Shaolin, no one recognized him. Only when the Ancestral Teacher Huike exerted himself, standing in the snow and severing his arm, did he first slightly extend compassion, and from this the mind was sealed. If you say there were no words, from where did he enter? If you say there were words, what did he say to him? One should know that one must be such a person before one fully comprehends it without any leakage. Therefore, entering this gate requires sharp and fierce spiritual capacity, able swiftly to abandon former intellectual understandings and paths of interpretation, leaving the mind wide open and empty, not retaining a hair's breadth; clearly and hollowly coalesced, where the paths of words and thought are cut off, straightaway tallying with the fundamental source, merging without boundary, spontaneously attaining the original, unattainable wondrous wisdom—only then is it called having reached full faith and thorough insight. There still remains an immeasurable and boundless, unfathomable and unquantifiable great potential and great function. If you retain the slightest subject and object, falling into conditioned dust, you will not immediately accord with it in an instant. For this reason, the virtuous ones of old urged people to rest right now and desist. This matter is like a swift hawk or a fast falcon, grazing the clouds and piercing the sun, confounding the wind and penetrating the azure, soaring and straightly cutting through without brooking deliberation; if you hesitate in the slightest, you miss it. That it is a separate transmission outside the teachings can thus be known. Since you have the resolve for this, put it down; take it upon yourself in direct presence, where everything is already complete, and then the First Patriarch never came, and you yourself have gained nothing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 15.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.15.51) - [Next: 15.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.15.53) - [Up: 15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.15) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997~en-mt.15.52) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.15.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.15.52) · Pramāṇa