[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [圓悟佛果禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997) › 5.14 # 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 5.14 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 5.14 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.5.14) 本然居士請，上堂云：「寸絲不掛，猶有赤骨律在；萬里無片雲處，猶有青天在，若乃不盡去，未免者也周由，直饒一切坐斷，已落佛祖圈繢，到這裏作麼生舉揚？作麼生提持？雖然如是，從上來有箇現成公案，不免提持去也。古者道：『吾有大病，非世所醫。』僧後問曹山：『未審是什麼病？』山云：『攢簇不得底病。』僧云：『未審一切眾生還有此病也無？』山云：『眾生若病，即非眾生。』僧云：『只如和尚還有麼？』山云：『正覓起處不得。』大眾！此病即非世所醫，須要本分作家以金剛錐與他頂上一劄，正覓起處不得也。與一服，直教祖病佛病玄妙之病，機緣境界悉灑灑落落，脫然解脫，不住解脫機。到這裏羅籠不肯住，呼喚不回頭，古聖不安排，至今無處所。只這無處所，早是處所了也，直須千峯萬峯那邊承當得去好，等閑拈一機舉一句，盡與人抽釘拔楔解黏去縛，更說什麼直指人心，更覓什麼見性成佛？正富恁麼時如何？不假鐵毫力，碎佛祖窠窟。」 > Requested by Layman Benran, the Master ascended the hall and said: "Without hanging a single thread, the stark naked frame is still there; where there is not a flake of cloud for ten thousand miles, the blue sky is still there. If you do not exhaust it completely, you will inevitably be entangled in roundabouts. Even if you cut off everything, you have already fallen into the trap of the Buddhas and Patriarchs. Arriving here, how do you bring it up? How do you hold it aloft? Even though it is like this, from ancient times there has been a ready-made gong'an, and I cannot avoid holding it aloft: An ancient one said, 'I have a great illness that cannot be cured by the worldly.' A monk later asked Caoshan, 'I wonder, what illness is it?' Caoshan said, 'An illness that cannot be bunched together.' The monk said, 'I wonder, do all sentient beings also have this illness or not?' Caoshan said, 'If sentient beings fall ill \[with it\], they are not sentient beings.' The monk said, 'Does the Venerable also have it?' Caoshan said, 'I am just searching for where it arises, but cannot find it.' Great assembly! This illness cannot indeed be cured by the worldly; it requires an expert of the fundamental lot to pierce his crown with a diamond awl right where its point of arising cannot be found, and administer a dose of medicine, directly causing the Patriarch-illness, the Buddha-illness, and the illness of the profound and wondrous—dynamic conditions and objective realms—to be swept away completely, cleanly liberated without abiding in the dynamic of liberation. Arriving here, one refuses to remain caged or trapped; call him and he will not turn his head. Ancient sages did not arrange him; to this day he has no abode. Just this 'no abode' is already an abode. You must directly undertake it over on the other side of a thousand and ten thousand peaks. Casually picking up a dynamic or raising a phrase, totally extract the nails and pull out the wedges, unstick the glue and untie the bonds for others. What further talk of directly pointing to the human mind? What further search for seeing one's nature and attaining Buddhahood? Right at such a time, how is it? Without borrowing the strength of an iron awl, smash the den of the Buddhas and Patriarchs!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.5.13) - [Next: 5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.5.15) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.5) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997~en-mt.5.14) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.5.14) · Pramāṇa