圓悟佛果禪師語錄 20.142

20.142

Cultivator of Chan Ruoxu pitched a hermitage as he went along and sought a name from old Foguo. Therefore I gave it the name 'Ruoxu' (As if Empty), thus gathering the three into one, yet not departing from the fundamental lot, Chan, or the teachings. Yongjia said, 'The substance is like empty space, without shores or banks.' A Buddhist sūtra says, 'The Buddha's true dharmakāya is just like empty space.' Hunyuan said, 'Profoundly stored as if empty.' Xuanni said, 'Full as if empty.' It is said: 'Drop by drop of water, drop by drop of ice; / just so ordinary, hollow inside and out. / Sense roots and sense objects severed from duality, / the six gates mutually functioning. / Joyfully abide in this hermitage / of the eighteen unshared dharmas. / If you seek a crack or chink, / it is brightly and clearly seamless. / Responding to things without conditioning, / who makes it a phantom dream?'