圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.29

4.29

On the Birthday of Master Bao, [the Master] ascended the hall and said: "Perfected realization within the seed of compassion and wisdom, bodily striding horizontally within the ocean of the four forms of birth: round as the bright moon pearl, swift as the diamond sword. Once heading in that direction, thousands, ten thousands, and even countless hundreds of millions of people cannot cage him; when arriving in this manner, thousands, ten thousands, and even countless hundreds of millions of people all receive his sheltering shade. Relieving the four forms of birth, expanding and rolling up the nine existences; sometimes manifesting twelve faces, sometimes manifesting a hundred billion bodies. In an eagle's claw revealing the dynamic of taking birth; in bending the knee showing the appearance of nirvāṇa. This is still the occasion of responding to potentials and receiving beings, conforming to the square and following the round. If we discuss the upholding of the fundamental lot, it cuts off difference and sameness and admits neither ordinary nor sage—truly causing Śākya and Maitreya to swallow their breath and choke back their words, and Mañjuśrī and Samantabhadra to lose their points and tie their tongues. And how do you speak a phrase of benefiting beings and responding to dynamic potential? From the tip of the staff surges forth the diamond sword, showing a ford and bridge for the four forms of birth and the nine existences."