圓悟佛果禪師語錄 5.22

5.22

大內慶國夫人請上堂，僧問：「空劫中還有佛法也無？」師云：「逼塞虛空。」僧云：「未審學人向什麼處安身立命？」師云：「蹉過也。」僧云：「和尚喚什麼作虛空？」師云：「闍黎問從何來？」僧云：「三際斷時凡聖盡，十身圓處剎塵空。」師云：「爭奈爾踏不著。」師乃云：「處處真，無回互，塵塵爾，有鑑覺，萬象以不見而見，萬法以不聞而聞，不見見其見逼塞虛空，不聞聞其聞包含萬有，離却見不見聞不聞，別有一段奇特事，要須是箇大解脫機大解脫用，然後方能歷落起處全真。豈不見，僧問雲門：『如何是塵塵三昧？』門云：『鉢裏飯，桶裏水。』又僧問：『如何是諸佛出身處？』門云：『東山水上行。』一等是箇時節，朴實頭處直是朴實頭，孤危峭峻處直是孤危峭峻。正當恁麼時，將箇什麼提持？將箇什麼眼目辨別？還委悉麼？試玉須經火，求珠不離泥。」復頌云：「此心含法界，明契本來人，千祥如霧集，萬善若雲臻。」

Requested by Lady of the State of Qing of the Imperial Palace, the Master ascended the hall. A monk asked: "In the eon of emptiness, is there still the Buddhadharma or not?" The Master said: "It crams full empty space." The monk said: "I wonder where the student should settle body and life?" The Master said: "You've missed it." The monk said: "What does the Venerable call empty space?" The Master said: "Where did the Ācārya come from with this question?" The monk said: "When the three periods of time are severed, ordinary and holy are exhausted; where the ten bodies are perfected, lands and dust motes are empty." The Master said: "Yet you cannot tread upon it." The Master then said: "True everywhere, without mutual avoidance; in every dust mote, there is discernment and awareness. The myriad phenomena are seen through not-seeing; the myriad dharmas are heard through not-hearing. Not-seeing sees its seeing cramming full empty space; not-hearing hears its hearing encompassing the myriad existences. Leaving aside seeing and not-seeing, hearing and not-hearing, there is another extraordinary affair: you must be one of great liberation's dynamic and great liberation's function before you can be completely authentic in the place where things distinctly arise. Have you not seen? A monk asked Yunmen, 'What is the samādhi of every dust mote?' Yunmen said, 'Rice in the bowl, water in the bucket.' Another monk asked, 'What is the place where all Buddhas emerge?' Yunmen said, 'The eastern mountain walks upon the water.' Equally, this is a moment: where it is plain and simple, it is straightforwardly plain and simple; where it is solitary, precarious, and steep, it is straightforwardly solitary, precarious, and steep. Right at such a time, with what do you hold it aloft? With what eyes do you discern it? Do you understand? To test jade, it must pass through fire; seeking a pearl does not depart from the mud." He further gave a verse: "This mind contains the Dharma realm; / clearly it accords with the original person. / A thousand auspicious signs gather like fog; / ten thousand good deeds arrive like clouds."