圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.13

4.13

Ascending the hall, he said: “The extraordinary true vehicle, the correct eye directly in the open; riding on sound and covering form, transcending seeing and terminating hearing. It is not what the three worthies and ten stages of sages know, nor what divine powers and transformations can measure. Prying open the one transcendent aperture, holding fast the boundaries prior to King of Awesome Voice; even if Bodhidharma came from the West, he would have no place to set hands or feet. Arriving here, to speak further of mind and objects, or speak of gain and loss—how could that have any relevance whatsoever? If you are a person of sharp faculties, sever it with a single blade without falling into a second view or falling into a second dynamic; directly undertake it beneath it—how could that not be concise and essential? Even when walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, with a single stick of incense, a single flower, a single gaze, a single bow, there is nothing that does not flow out from oneself, nothing that does not come from the fundamentally existing place of practice. Cutting off the heads of the reward and transformation buddhas with this, you are free to wear clothes and eat food in accord with the times. The Buddhas of the three periods only said they knew it themselves; the Patriarch coming from the West could not lift it up at all; the teachings of the entire Great Canon cannot explain or annotate it. And tell me: arriving here, how do you speak of the principle of preparing a bridge in advance? Do you understand? / A wisp of cloud dots the vast clarity, / Already falling into a second view.”