圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.26

4.26

[The Master] ascended the hall. A monk asked: "Single-handedly picking up and uniquely manipulating values only the discerning eye and skilled hand; applying directly and raising sideways requires the method of an adept. Leaving aside the mutual exchange of staff and shout, what about the matter of the one phrase on the crown of the head?" The Master said: "Enacting this order in reverse." The monk advanced: "Beneath Jiangshan's gate, it is not outside one's share." The Master said: "Divide your body and look in two places." The monk advanced: "What when a student walks further toward the transcendent?" The Master said: "For now, just ask downward." The monk advanced: "No matter how big, one must still rise from the ground; no matter how high, what can be done about heaven?" The Master said: "Passed." The Master then said: "Gazing upon every dust and every land, dwelling together within the Ocean of the Flower Treasury; secret and magnificent upon the crown of the head, completely the acceptance of the unborn Dharma. Picking up a blade of grass, one manifests the sixteen-foot body; blowing a strand of cloth fiber, one transmits the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. Leaving behind nothingness and leaving behind existence, transcending the sacred and transcending the mundane, the character 'eight' is spread wide and clearly revealed. If you can fully understand it..." He then raised his whisk and said: "The Eastern World of Wonderful Joy is not apart from this place; the Western World of Ultimate Bliss is also not apart from this place; the Upper World of Tuṣita is also not apart from this place. Thus, when one place is penetrated, a thousand places and a hundred places are simultaneously penetrated; when one place is complete, a thousand places and a hundred places are simultaneously complete. And how do you speak a phrase that does not depart from what is fundamentally possessed? The place of personal practice beneath the Jambu tree; among the nine ranks of lotus, the wonderful fruit is perfected."