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圓悟佛果禪師語錄 2.24

圓悟佛果禪師語錄 2.24

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Classical Chinese

2.24

上堂云:「眨上眉毛早蹉過,塞却眼更形言語,轉周遮,合取口,盡大地都為一塵,佛眼覷不見,一大藏都為一句,海口莫能宣,也未提得一半在。忽然踏破化城時如何?行到水窮處,坐看雲起時。」下座。

Ascending the hall, [the master] said, "Blink your eyebrows and you have already missed it; block your eyes and you further form speech, turning increasingly roundabout. Close your mouth! The entire great earth becomes a single dust mote, which the Buddha eye cannot see; the entire Great Canon becomes a single phrase, which a mouth as vast as the ocean cannot express—yet it has not even brought out half of it. What about when you suddenly trample through the conjured city? / Walking to where the waters end, / Sitting to watch when the clouds arise." He stepped down from the seat.

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