圓悟佛果禪師語錄 14.35

14.35

Who is the one who does not keep company with the myriad dharmas? Turn the light back to illumine yourself and see! When you have swallowed all the waters of the West River in a single gulp, I will tell you. 'An eight-cornered millstone runs through empty space.' If you penetrate this, the myriad dharmas before your eyes will subside evenly, and beginningless deluded thoughts will be completely wiped away. When Deshan waved his hand across the river, someone immediately took it up; when Niaoke blew the cloth fluff, someone instantly awakened. Is this not because when the time arrives for this great cause and condition, the sprouts emerge of themselves, and dynamic accord also finds its ground? It is also because the person secretly moves without interruption, borrowing the teacher's gate to express it. Why is being steep and sheer so difficult, while transcendent realization is so easy? The ancients used rolling a mustard seed to hit the needle's eye as an analogy; it is truly not in vain.