[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) › 9.17 # 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 9.17 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 9.17 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [9.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.9.17) 除夜小參：「樹凋葉落瓦解氷消，歲暮年窮家殘戶破，以世諦觀之，是不稱意境界，以道眼觀之，却是好箇消息。豈不見香嚴道：『去年貧未是貧，今年貧始是貧，去年貧有卓錐之地，今年貧錐也無卓。』又有古德道：『富貴即易，貧窮即難。』本分人打得徹、信得及、見得透，物物頭頭俱為妙用，塵塵剎剎悉是真乘。若便恁麼歇去，敢保老兄未徹在，那堪更說漸說頓，說玄說妙，說理說事，却須放却玄妙放却理性，打破向上向下，截斷佛印祖機，直得東西不辨、南北不分，懞懞𥋾𥋾，遇飯喫飯不知是飯，遇茶喫茶不知是茶，到這裏猶只得箇衲僧門下潔白露淨底。是故洞山道：『見佛與祖是生冤家，始有參學分。』正當恁麼時，全體現成，佛界不收、魔界不管，且道向什麼處行履？若識得去，便成年窮歲盡相續不斷，相續不斷歲盡年窮。正當恁麼時一句作麼生道？今歲今宵盡，來年來日新。」 > At a New Year's Eve informal gathering: "Trees wither and leaves fall; tiles disintegrate and ice melts. The year is at its close, the calendar exhausted, the family ruined, and the household broken. Viewed from conventional truth, this is an unsatisfactory realm; viewed with the eye of the Way, it is indeed good news. Have you not seen what Xiangyan said: 'Poverty last year was not yet poverty; poverty this year is truly poverty. Last year's poverty still had a spot of ground to stand an awl; this year's poverty has not even an awl to stand.' Another ancient worthy said: 'Wealth and honor are easy; poverty and hardship are difficult.' A person of the fundamental lot penetrates thoroughly, has full faith, and sees completely through; every single thing is a wondrous function, every single dust mote and land is the true vehicle. If you simply rest like this, I dare guarantee that you, elder brother, have not penetrated yet! How could you bear further speaking of gradual and sudden, speaking of the mysterious and wondrous, speaking of principle and phenomena? You must instead cast away the mysterious and wondrous, cast away principle and nature, smash through the transcendent and the descending, and cut off the Buddha-seal and Patriarchal function, directly arriving at not discerning east from west, not distinguishing south from north, utterly muddled and bewildered: meeting rice, eating rice without knowing it is rice; meeting tea, drinking tea without knowing it is tea. Arriving here, one only attains the pure, white, bare, and clean within the gate of a patch-robed monk. Therefore Dongshan said: 'Only when you see Buddhas and Patriarchs as born mortal enemies will you begin to have a share in study.' Just at such a time, the whole body is fully manifest, not gathered in by the realm of Buddhas, not governed by the realm of Māras. Tell me, toward what place do you walk? If you can recognise it, then the calendar exhausted and the year at its close continue without interruption; continuing without interruption, the year is at its close and the calendar exhausted. Just at such a time, how do you say a phrase? This year, this night, comes to an end; the coming year, the coming day, is renewed." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 9.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.9.16) - [Next: 9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.9.18) - [Up: 9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.9) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997~en-mt.9.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.9.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1997.9.17) · Pramāṇa