[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) › 6.16 # 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 6.16 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 6.16 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.6.16) 秦魯國大長公主，降香請陞座，拈香云：「此一瓣香，奉為秦魯國大長公主令辰修設，祝嚴今上皇帝聖壽無疆。」師乃云：「天高無極，無極有尊，地厚無垠，無垠有主，鏡萬象方寸，懷六合胸中，發大機顯大用，是故乃祖乃佛，或拈華或面壁，或行棒或行喝，或詞辯縱橫或寂寥無說，周旋往返只明此箇無為宗旨，所以人人分上，各各壁立萬仞，無一絲毫移易虧欠。豈不見道，譬如帝力不棄一民，不謂不知而不容，不謂知之而含育。到箇裏啟無為之化，行不言之教，各各頂天履地，飲泉水貴地脈。正當恁麼時，還委悉麼？一穗寶香天上降，金輪皇億萬斯年。」 > The Grand Princess of Qin and Lu presented incense and requested him to ascend the seat. Bringing forward incense, he said: "This stick of incense is reverently offered on behalf of the Grand Princess of Qin and Lu, prepared on this auspicious occasion, to solemnise the limitless sagely lifespan of our current Emperor." The Master then said: "Heaven is high and limitless, and the limitless has its venerated one; earth is thick and boundless, and the boundless has its master. Mirroring the myriad phenomena in a square inch \[of mind\], embracing the six directions within the chest, one activates the great potential and manifests the great function. For this reason, the patriarchs and Buddhas either held up a flower or faced a wall, either wielded the staff or gave a shout, were either overflowing with eloquence or utterly silent without speech. Turning and returning, they merely clarified this non-doing lineage principle. Therefore, on each person's part, each stands steep like a wall of ten thousand cubits, without the slightest change or deficiency. Have you not heard it said: like the imperial power not abandoning a single subject, it is not said that because they are ignorant they are not harboured, nor is it said that because they are wise they are nurtured. Arriving here, one initiates the transformation of non-doing and practices the wordless teaching; each stands supporting heaven and treading the earth, drinking from the spring and prizing the earth's veins. Just at such a moment, do you understand thoroughly? A plume of precious incense descends from heaven; may the Golden Wheel Emperor live for a hundred million myriad years!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.6.15) - [Next: 6.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.6.17) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997~en-mt.6.16) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.6.16) · Pramāṇa