圓悟佛果禪師語錄 11.6

11.6

At an informal gathering, the Master said: 'Before the eyes there is not a single dharma, yet the myriad phenomena stand distinctly revealed; outside the pattern a thousand workings are established, yet provisional, real, illumination, and function are vast and open. As for the provisional: gathering Sumeru into a mustard seed, hurling the trichiliocosm beyond the realms. As for the real: above is heaven, below is earth; mountains are mountains, waters are waters; monks are monks, laypeople are laypeople. As for illumination: it completely encompasses worlds as numerous as sands without remainder. As for function: the shout is like running thunder, the staff like falling raindrops. Now, not falling into provisional, real, illumination, and function, not falling into the thousand workings outside the pattern, not falling into the single dharma before the eyes: right at such a time, how do you make an approach? If the mind's workings are thoroughly cast off, gain and loss already forgotten, and subtle principles discharged: if there is such a person, having barely heard it raised, they kick it up and walk on—Śākyamuni is himself Śākyamuni, Maitreya is himself Maitreya, Vimukta is himself Vimukta, Sudhana is himself Sudhana. If one cannot yet be like this, and cannot directly have complete faith, hold firm, and be the master, one must instead, at the place where the ancients established the gates of skillful means, be clear in every instance and manifest in every thing, without the slightest hairbreadth of a slip, without the slightest hairbreadth of gain or loss, clean and naked cutting off all undertaking, stark and exposed without mutual interplay, treading on the scenery of the fundamental ground, clearly seeing the original face. Right at such a time, how does one apply effort? Not giving rise to the slightest mind of cultivation or study, ever at ease within the markless light.' He further gave a verse: 'Buddha and Buddha share the same path, together reaching the supreme path; / Mind and mind truly tally, tallying with the true mind. / Openly penetrating beyond Bhīṣmagarjitasvararāja, / Earth is enduring, heaven is long, and the ocean is deeper still.'