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# 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 2.36

圓悟佛果禪師語錄 2.36

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.2.36)

上堂云：「三春已過九夏方新，聚玄徒雲間，扇真風世外，不促一念、不涉三祇，當人隨處見成，箇箇頂門有眼。若便恁麼承當得去，放行把住全不由他，出沒縱橫更非外物。若使上流觀見正在半途，明眼相逢難為透脫。山僧雖無金剛寶劍、衲僧向上鉗鎚，昔在五祖白雲拾得數箇金剛圈、一籃栗棘蓬，九夏之中與諸人共相切磋。」遂舉拂子云：「大眾還見麼？且道：這箇是金剛圈，是栗棘蓬？不容淺見衲僧會，唯許通方作者知。」

> Ascending the hall, he said, "The three months of spring have passed, and the ninety days of summer are newly begun. 玄 Gather the mysterious followers amid the clouds; fan the true style outside the world. Not urging a single thought, not traversing three asaṃkhyeya kalpas, each person finds it ready-made in every place; each and every one has an eye on the crown of their head. If you take responsibility in such a way, releasing and holding back are entirely up to yourself; appearing and disappearing, vertical and horizontal, are not external things at all. If the highest class were to look, they would see you are right in mid-journey; when clear-eyed ones meet, it is hard to penetrate through. Although this mountain monk has no diamond jewel sword or patched-robed monk's transcendent pincers and hammer, formerly at Mount Wuzu Baiyun I picked up several diamond cages and a basket of chestnut burrs. Throughout the ninety days of summer, I will cut and polish together with you all." He then raised the whisk and said, "Does the great assembly still see? Tell me: is this a diamond cage, or a chestnut burr? It cannot be understood by monks of shallow views; / It is only known by accomplished masters of pervasive ways."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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