圓悟佛果禪師語錄 3.8

3.8

Ascending the hall, he said: “Strikingly prominent and hard to discern, even those of long training inevitably hesitate; picked up with a free hand, how could later students know the truth of it? Autumn winds fan all things, jade dew hangs in beads, wild geese cross the vast sky, crickets sing by the secluded steps: one by one pierced through in seven directions and eight ways, clearly in a hundred coils and a thousand layers. Why must staff and shout fly back and forth before discussing illumination and function? Letting go from the hanging cliff directly beneath, one can then shoulder it. Is there anyone like this? Seeing righteousness and not acting is not a brave person; facing danger without changing only then astounds the crowd.”