圓悟佛果禪師語錄 20.159

20.159

忠臣不畏死，故能立天下之大事；勇士不顧生，故能成天下之大名。衲僧家透脫生死、不懼危亡，故能立佛祖之紀綱。昭覺和尚神機峭拔，智辯滔天，肘臂下有符，頂門上具眼，奮喝散白雲底意氣，操打破虛空底鉗鎚，一歸錦官，兩住雄剎，闢開荊棘路，坐斷是非關，接物利生，光揚佛日，臨岐一著，擺撥便行，絕後光前，頭正尾正。如今既到這裏，可謂世緣畢備，末後慇懃截斷，路頭一堆猛火。大眾！且道：畢竟向什麼處去？舉火炬云：「烈焰亘天留不得，當空寶月鎮長圓。」

A loyal minister does not fear death, hence he can establish the great affairs of the world; a brave warrior disregards his life, hence he can achieve great fame in the world. When patch-robed monks penetrate and escape birth and death, fearing neither peril nor ruin, they can establish the discipline and order of the buddhas and ancestors. Master Zhaojue's dynamic sharpness was towering and steep, his wisdom and eloquence flooding the heavens; under his elbow he held the tally, and on the crown of his head he possessed the eye. He wielded the spirit of shouting away the white clouds, and brandished the pincers and hammer that smash through empty space. Once returning to the Brocade City, twice dwelling in mighty monasteries, he cleaved open the thorny path and cut off the pass of right and wrong, receiving beings and benefiting life, glorifying the sun of the Buddha. At the crossroads, with a single move, he shook himself free and walked off, surpassing the past and illuminating the future, straight from head to tail. Now that he has arrived here, worldly conditions may be called complete; at the very end, diligently cut off—the road ahead is a heap of raging fire. Great assembly, tell me: where, ultimately, does he go? Raising the torch, he said: 'Raging flames reaching to the sky cannot detain him; / the precious moon in the midst of the sky remains eternally round.'