圓悟佛果禪師語錄 16.20

16.20

佛祖出興于世，以大悲願力，起無緣慈，唯務引接，利智上根具大器量，堪委任大解脫上上勝妙玄機，作人所不能為，超群絕眾，可以彈指證無生，可以立地越果海，眼觀東西意在南北，如快鷹俊鷂戞戞騰空，迷風曜日，捎玉兔、拂金鷄，英靈掀豁，乃拈當頭末上一著子，似電閃星飛，不容擬議，待伊全體脫去，羅籠直下，不費一毫指點，遂乃披襟透頂透底，領略即兩手分付，是故體裁步驟，如獰龍之得水，似猛虎之靠山，雲突突、風颭颭，傾人肝膽、耀人心目，方可謂之本家種草。所以維摩大士大集會，魔王現首楞嚴定，魔界行不污菩薩之儔，與夫文殊普賢金色頭陀之類，皆離倫拔萃，而一旦舉華密傳，豈常事哉？以至達磨西來，神光瞥地，自爾多沒量大人特達精通，只向動用瞬揚語默，舒卷縱擒，與奪顯發底事，長時已思不露，等閑兀兀地，若百不知百不會底人；及乎挨拶著，便見驚群動眾。雖然鞠共至趣，初無如許多事，唯直下明妙一切無心而已。苟能棄去學解執著，放教閑閑地，聖諦亦不為，自然契合從上來綱宗，便可入此選佛場中，轉度未度、轉化未化，得不是再來人間世，不依倚一物，無為絕學真正出格大道人耶？詔使觀察楊公無咎，高識遠見博學多能，而於祖道尤深造詣，智鑑機警，未舉先知、未言先透，在都下日獲參陪，茲沿帝命使宣撫司，再會錦官，特辱道照臨，還索葛藤，因出此納敗缺云。

The buddhas and ancestral teachers appear in the world through the power of great compassionate vows, giving rise to causeless compassion solely dedicated to guiding and receiving those of sharp intelligence and superior faculties who possess great capacity, capable of being entrusted with the supreme, wondrous, and profound dynamic of great liberation, doing what others cannot do, surpassing the herd and excelling beyond the multitude. They can realize the unarisen in the snap of a finger, and step beyond the fruit-ocean on the spot. Their eyes look east and west while their intent is north and south; like swift falcons and agile sparrows dashing through the sky, braving the wind and braving the sun, brushing the Jade Rabbit and grazing the Golden Rooster, their heroic spirit sweeping and unconstrained, they seize upon the foremost and final move. Like a flash of lightning or a flying star, it allows no room for deliberation. Waiting for the person's entire body to slough off, directly snared without wasting a hair of pointing, they then bare their chest, penetrating from top to bottom; as soon as it is comprehended, they hand it over with both hands. Therefore their style and strides are like a ferocious dragon obtaining water or a fierce tiger leaning against a mountain: clouds puffing, winds gusting, pouring out people's livers and gall, dazzling people's eyes and minds; only then can they be called seedlings of the fundamental house. Thus, when the great being Vimalakīrti held a great assembly, the demon king manifested the Śūraṅgama Samādhi, and practices in the demon realm did not defile the ranks of bodhisattvas; together with Mañjuśrī, Samantabhadra, and the Golden Ascetic, they all stood out from the ordinary and surpassed the crowd. And when the flower was raised for a secret transmission, how could that be an ordinary matter? Down to Bodhidharma's coming from the West, Shenguang glimpsed it in a flash; since then, many immeasurable great people have been uniquely penetrating and thoroughly expert, only pointing to activities, blinking, raising eyebrows, speech, silence, unfolding, rolling up, releasing, seizing, giving, taking away, and manifesting the fundamental matter. For a long time their thoughts have not been exposed, leisurely and motionless, like people who know nothing and understand nothing; yet when engaged and confronted, they are seen to astound the crowd and stir the multitude. Although when investigating its ultimate purport there are originally not so many things, it is solely to immediately illumine the wonderful and be entirely free of mind. If one can cast aside learned understanding and clinging, letting oneself be thoroughly at leisure, not even practicing the noble truths, one will naturally accord with the lineage guidelines from of old, and will then be able to enter this field of selecting buddhas, converting the uncoverted and transforming the untransformed. How could this not be returning to the human world, relying on not a single thing, as a truly extraordinary person of the great Way of non-action and beyond learning? The Imperial Envoy and Surveillance Commissioner, Lord Yang Wujiu, possesses lofty discernment and far-reaching vision, erudite learning and many abilities, and has attained especially deep mastery of the ancestral Way. His wisdom is discerning and dynamic: knowing before anything is raised, penetrating before anything is spoken. While in the capital, I was fortunate to participate in his company; now, following the imperial command to serve at the Pacification Commission, we meet again in Jin'guan. You have specially graced me with your illumination of the Way and further demanded entangling vines; therefore I put forth this admission of defect.