圓悟佛果禪師語錄 11.10

11.10

At an informal gathering, a monk asked: "What is the guest within the host?" The Master said: "Where the ācārya asks, it carries a speck of dust." The monk continued: "If so, then the numinous radiance is exquisite for a thousand ages, while all phenomena fall to the stairs." The Master said: "Stand below the stairs." The monk asked: "What is the host within the guest?" The Master said: "This mountain monk cannot avoid speaking it himself." The monk continued: "In the position of the ancient Buddhas there is nowhere to seek; deep within the lush grasses the whole body is revealed." The Master said: "Do not come here presenting a blindfold bag." The monk asked: "What is the host within the host?" The Master said: "Cutting off the tongue, there is no taking or leaving." The monk continued: "In the sleeve, the golden mallet glitters brightly; the hair-blowing precious sword chills one with cold." The Master said: "Seventy-five blows turn into a hundred and fifty." The monk asked: "What is the guest within the guest?" The Master said: "Beyond the blue mountains, one worries even more." The monk continued: "If so, poverty at home is not yet poverty; poverty on the road worries a person to death." The Master said: "Go into the deserted village and the ancient shrine." The monk asked: "What kind of person is it who does not involve host and guest?" The Master shouted. The Master then said: "To know where to return upon a glance is already an extra; to accord before speaking still involves a journey. You must know that within this there is the extra-pattern dynamic and the extra-pattern function, illuminating the extra-pattern Way and realising the extra-pattern mind. Unrestrained and free, completely exposed without taking on anything; intimate and grand, stark and vivid without mutual evasion. Where a cliff stands ten thousand cubits steep, there are a thousand differences and ten thousand distinctions; where there are ten thousand distinctions and a thousand differences, a cliff stands ten thousand cubits steep. Therefore it is said: 'Casting a hook across the four seas, one angles only for fierce dragons; dynamic sharpness outside the pattern is for seeking true teachers.' If among you there is one who thus takes it on, obtaining the extra-pattern inclination, and thus weighs and assesses, obtaining the extra-pattern action, what can be said to them? Even to speak of the profound, speak of the wondrous, speak of Buddhas, speak of Patriarchs, speak of mind, speak of nature—these are already superfluous words discarded by this person; to discuss the staff, discuss the shout, discuss provisional, discuss real, discuss illumination, discuss function—these too are redundant items not needed by this person. Because therein one does not touch point or edge, and not a speck of dust is established, how can one penetrate and break free? Do you fully understand yet? The great Way is broad in substance, without facing toward or turning away; / Standing in full daylight, one must be a person from within."