圓悟佛果禪師語錄 15.25

15.25

Investigating Chan requires seeing one's nature and awakening to the principle, directly forgetting emotion and cutting off illumination, the chest wide open like an idiot or a stump, not calculating gain and loss, not contending over superiority and inferiority; whatever conforms or opposes is completely severed so that it does not continue. In the long run, one naturally arrives at the place of non-action and non-affair. The moment a hair's breadth of desire to have no affair arises, an affair has already been born. When one wave stirs, ten thousand waves follow—how could there ever be an end? When life and death arrive in the future, your hands and feet will be flustered, simply because you were not free and detached. Only if you take this as solid and real will you naturally be as pure as water even in a bustling marketplace. How could your own matter fail to be settled?