圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.16
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4.16
Ascending the hall, he said: “The thousand sages do not follow the same rut; the true reality alone is exposed. The myriad phenomena leave nothing veiled; the wondrous function is constantly true. Dharma moves in accordance with Dharma, nowhere not pervasive; mind functions in accordance with mind, nowhere not complete. If you can terminate climbing and longing above, and sever the personal self below, releasing everyone's constant light so that before your eyes each is solely exposed, then in a single dust mote you can manifest a jewel king's realm, and sitting inside a hair-tip turn the great wheel of Dharma. Turning without turning, all is turned; manifesting a body through bodilessness, nowhere is not the body; frozen in silent illumination spanning antiquity to the present. Therefore it is said: ‘Only one solid, secret body manifests within all dust motes.’ Although dwelling within dust motes, the dust motes cannot contain it; although dwelling within the four marks, the four marks cannot snare it. Although seeking its slightest form or mark anywhere is entirely unattainable, nevertheless when one needs to use it, one uses it; when one needs to walk, one walks. Neither seeking dust within a single dust mote, nor searching for its slightest form or mark—this is called the forbearance of non-arising of dharmas. And just like cutting off both ends, how do you speak a phrase? / Death and life share the same boundary; / The myriad transformations are all as such.”
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- 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 — Classical Chinese