圓悟佛果禪師語錄 3.9

3.9

Ascending the hall for inspecting the canon: “Auspicious smoke coils, propitious vapors gather; the gong'an is ready-made, who knocks and strikes?” Then he said: “The great scroll of scriptures within a dust mote—its limits cannot be fathomed; only a person of pure eyes and sharp wisdom can bring it out. So it is that the heaven of meaning and the ocean of nature are like the interlaced net of Indra; the illumination of wisdom and the spiritual radiance are like the fierce flames of a great furnace. Today we are fortunate to meet the vast imperial breeze and the level imperial way; a dānapati of great mind activates the trigger for you, causing each of you to open up completely, so that where the rosy silk unrolls and the jade tablets spread out, the pattern is already apparent—each should recognize it! But how do you speak a phrase that does not fall into ink and writing? The hall is filled with cool wind; the meaning throughout a thousand ages is distinct.”