圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.18

4.18

八月一日上堂云：「撥正三界窠窟，放出無位真人，透過荊棘叢林，便居常寂光土。非如非異耀古騰今，非色非心超宗越格，淨躶躶絕承當，赤灑灑沒回互，只如今在諸人頂門貫通一切，若能各各返照內觀，即坐自己家堂。所以祖師道：『有一物，上拄天下拄地，常在動用中，動用中收不得』謂之本源佛性顯成。知解宗徒更云：『說似一物即不中』，亦不免涉三寸路，直得不墮常情不拘格式，諸人若能於此定當得，更不在指東劃西，若定當不得，不免重重指注去也。不見道：『有物先天地，無形本寂寥，能為萬象主，不逐四時彫。』既不逐四時彫，又能為萬象主，且當陽截斷路頭，如何趣向？還委悉麼？八月秋何處熱？」復云：「抖擻自精神，搆取自家底，如斬一綟絲，不分前後際，力刃既雙行，一斬截一切。倘能劍刃上承當，一口吸盡西江水。」

Ascending the hall on the first day of the eighth month, the Master said: "Rooting out the dens and nests of the three realms, releasing the true person of no rank, penetrating through the brambles and thorns of the monastic groves, one then abides in the Land of Constant Silent Light. Neither identical nor different, it outshines antiquity and transcends the present; neither form nor mind, it surpasses lineages and oversteps categories. Pure and naked, it leaves behind all acceptance; bright and exposed, it admits no mutual evasion. Right now, on the crown of each of your heads, it penetrates through everything. If each of you can reverse the light and observe inward, you will sit in your own family hall. Therefore an ancestral master said: 'There is one thing that supports heaven above and props up earth below, constantly present in dynamic activity, yet uncontainable within dynamic activity.' This is called the fundamental source Buddha-nature manifestly realized. Disciples of the lineage of theoretical understanding further say: 'To speak of it as resembling a single thing misses the mark,' but they also cannot avoid getting entangled in the three inches of the tongue. One must directly succeed in not falling into ordinary sentiments and not being restricted by standard forms. If you can settle this right here, you will no longer need to point east and draw west. If you cannot settle it, you will unavoidably have repeated explanations directed at you. Have you not heard it said: 'There is a thing prior to heaven and earth, formless, originally silent and still; it can serve as the master of myriad phenomena, and does not wither with the four seasons.' Since it does not wither with the four seasons and can serve as the master of myriad phenomena, when the road ahead is cut off directly before you, how do you proceed? Do you understand? Where is it hot in the autumn of the eighth month?" He also said: "Rouse your own spirit and seize what belongs to your own home! Like severing a skein of silk, make no distinction between before and after. When force and blade operate together, a single cut severs all. If you can accept this atop the sword's blade, you will swallow down the waters of the West River in a single gulp."