圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.12

14.12

For a lay bodhisattva to practice the conduct of a monastic is like a lotus emerging from fire. This is because fame, position, power, and haughty spirit are difficult to subdue abruptly, not to mention the hundreds of complications and thousands of anxieties of the burning house that torment and boil one. Unless one directly awakens to one's original true, wondrous completeness, arrives at the site of great tranquil samādhi and rest, and is further able to let go, be vastly ordinary, thoroughly realize no-mind, and view all dharmas as dreams, illusions, bubbles, and vast emptiness, passing through them in accord with the times and seasons, one will share the same correct cause with such superior laymen as Vimalakīrti, Mahāsattva Fu, Layman Pang, Prime Minister Pei, and Hanlin Academician Yang. Then, according to one's own power, transforming those who have not yet awakened, one enters together into the ocean of the unconditioned and effortless Dharma nature; then to have come out into this Southern Jambudvīpa and made this round will not have been a loss of one's investment.