圓悟佛果禪師語錄 15.6

15.6

省要處不消一劄，皮下有血自知落處；苟或躊蹰，則失却鼻頭也。七佛已前便與麼，直須硬紏紏緊著頭皮，分明歷落薦取這一片田地，穩密長時乃自會退步，終不道：「我有見處，我有妙解。」何故？箇中若立一絲毫能所見刺，則重過山嶽，從上來決不相許。是故釋迦文於然燈佛以無法得受記；盧老於黃梅，以本來無物親付衣鉢，至於生死之際，才自擔荷，則如靈龜脫殼，應須淨穢二邊都不依怙，有心無心、有見無見，似紅爐著一點雪，二六時中透頂透底，灑灑落落，遊此千聖不同途處，直下令純熟自然成就，得箇絕學無為，千人萬人羅籠不住底，箇真實人也。

At the crucial point, it does not take a single prick; if there is blood beneath the skin, one naturally knows the landing place. If you hesitate, you lose your nostrils. It was already like this prior to the seven Buddhas. You must firmly pull yourself together, brace your scalp, and clearly and distinctly realize this patch of land. Only through steady concealment over a long time will you naturally know how to take a step back, never saying: 'I have a view, I have a wondrous understanding.' Why is this? If within this there is established even the slightest thorn of subject-and-object views, it will be heavier than mountains and peaks; from of old, this has never been permitted. Therefore, Śākyamuni received prediction from Dīpaṃkara Buddha because of no Dharma; Old Lu had the robe and bowl intimately entrusted to him at Huangmei because originally not a thing exists. As for the juncture of life and death, as soon as you shoulder it yourself, it is like a sacred turtle shedding its shell; you must rely on neither the clean nor the defiled extremes. Having mind and having no mind, having views and having no views, are like a flake of snow touching a red-hot stove. Throughout the twenty-four hours of the day, penetrating from top to bottom, unconstrained and untrammeled, roaming where the thousand sages do not travel in the same way, straightaway bring it to ripeness and natural accomplishment, obtaining the state of having finished study and being without contrivance, being a true person whom thousands or myriads cannot entangle.