圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.23

4.23

Ascending the hall, a monk asked: "When the Buddha-selection field opens, those of superior capacity achieve complete realization; without obscuring the immediate dynamic, how do you instruct?" The Master said: "Directly entering the Tathāgata ground in a single leap." The monk said: "Layman Pang said: 'Not obscuring the original person, I invite the Master to look closely.' Why did Great Master Ma look directly downward?" The Master said: "There is one on the crown of the head." The monk said: "The Layman said: 'A stringless lute, only the Master plays it wondrously.' Great Master Ma looked directly upward; I wonder, what was the meaning?" The Master said: "He can extract bones in the dark." The monk said: "Is looking directly upward correct, or is looking directly downward correct?" The Master said: "Do not slander Great Master Ma." The monk said: "What can be done when the dragon sleeve brushes open, the whole body appears, and where the elephant king walks, fox tracks are cut off?" The Master said: "There is Layman Pang to testify." The Master then said: "The dens and nests of the true and the false, the root and trunk of birth and death: in terms of their vast expanse, they are myriad differences; grasping their tendency, they are of one accord. Arising is solely the arising of dharmas; ceasing is solely the ceasing of dharmas. Arising and ceasing are entirely real, completely without duality. Therefore it is said: 'The three realms are mind-only, the myriad dharmas are consciousness-only; outside of mind, there is no other realm of consciousness.' Yangqi also said: 'The multitude of spirits share a single source, provisionally called Buddha; though the substance is exhausted and the form vanishes, it does not change; though the gold melts and the uncarved block is dispersed, it constantly exists.' Being like this, from antiquity to the present it is unarisen and unceasing, uncontainable in cages, unsummonable by calls. The ancient sages did not arrange it, and up to now it has no location. Now, how do you express the phrase of being unchanging from beginning to end? Do you understand? Not transmitted from among the thousand sages, it penetrates beyond King Bhīṣmagarjitasvararāja."