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圓悟佛果禪師語錄 20.37

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The four dispositions and four relations of host and guest, / The three mysteries and the three essentials, / Sparks struck from flint and flashes of lightning— / These are the models handed down by Linji. / Since you practice Linji Chan, / You must also check yourself: / Illumination and function beneath the shout are marvelous, / Slaying and reviving at the staff's end are verified. / Using this to enter suburbs and marketplaces, / Greatly rouse Jiang Wei's courage: / Glorious as a phoenix's radiance, / Survey the seven jewels at a single glance. / The rankless true person of the lump of red flesh— / How do you view him going in and out of the sense gates? / The staff's tip enforces the decree before the wind; / Beneath the shout, his liver and gall turn cold. / Without setting up ranks, how can one serve the Buddha? / Only with true discipline can the mind find peace. / Sprawling across the tips of the hundred grasses, function freely; / Thrust your hand into the Black Dragon's cave and overturn it. / If you wish to see a patch-robed monk's full spirit: / Innumerable conditions cannot obstruct him; / Great affinity is accomplished in the spit of a hand, / Never believing that life's road is hard to travel.

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