圓悟佛果禪師語錄 11.22

11.22

The Master said: "Words uttered are not sounds—strike and shatter together with words; objects before colors are not things—merge together with things. The cataracts of sound and form completely dissolve; the source of hearing and seeing is also shed. You directly attain being stripped bare and purely exposed, clear and solitary, pure and gleaming—a patch of local scenery, an expression of the original face. Those of spiritual powers and wondrous function, crosswise and lengthwise, do not depart from the intimacy of the ground; those of the intimacy of the ground cut off the ten directions without departing from spiritual powers and wondrous function. Within double illumination there is double darkness; within dying together there is living together. 'Like this' will not do, 'not like this' will not do; 'like this' will do, 'not like this' will do. Therefore it is said: 'This very seeing and hearing is not seeing and hearing; / There is no further sound or form to present to you, sir.' If you understand within this, it is entirely without substance or function; what harm is there in dividing or not dividing? Within this, seeing and hearing are the substance, sound and form are the function; sound and form are the substance, seeing and hearing are the function. Dividing is fine; not dividing is fine. Therefore Yunmen said: 'Move the lantern into the Buddha hall; pick up the triple gate and put it onto the lantern.' If viewed with the patch-robed monk's correct eye, this is still a minor matter. Even if you place Mount Sumeru into a mustard seed and cast the great trichiliocosm beyond the universe, that is still just a half-presentation. Therefore, throughout heaven and earth and the great earth, there is no empty gap anywhere; you must further know that there is a season of full presentation, when the Buddhas of the three periods can only stand in the lower wind, and the six generations of Patriarchs can only withdraw their whole bodies to keep out of harm's way. Right at the dynamic, how do you say a direct phrase? / A three-foot staff stirs up the dark waves, / Letting those fish and dragons know their life."