圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.32

4.32

Transport Commissioner Qian requested [the Master] to ascend the hall. A monk asked: "The realm calls the Northern Mountain a Chan cave; the great foundry and vast furnace smelt the buddhas and patriarchs. Exquisite on all eight sides, who recognizes it? A single phrase responding to the potential reveals the wind and bone. When suddenly encountering one from within, how is it?" The Master said: "Lean against one side." The monk advanced: "If so, then before the Five Phoenix Tower one listens to the jade clepsydra; atop Mount Sumeru one strikes the golden bell." The Master said: "Clouds rise beneath your feet." The monk advanced: "In the low places, leveling it leaves a surplus; in the high places, looking at it is never enough." The Master said: "How do you speak a phrase that flows out from your own chest?" The monk advanced: "Meeting face to face, there is no mutual evasion." The Master said: "The Court Gentleman will bear witness for you." The Master then said: "Upon the crown of the head of the buddhas and patriarchs, singly raise the fundamental lineage vehicle; in the place unreachable by ten thousand potentials, proclaim the Treasury of the True Dharma Eye. Clearly without mutual evasion, distinctly without boundaries, a single phrase cuts off a thousand differences, a single word summons ten thousand streams to pay homage to the ancestor. Buddha or non-Buddha, transcendent or descending, provisional or real, illumination or function, rolling up or unrolling, capturing or releasing—all are discarded at once, straightway leaving things stark naked and cleanly bare; in everyone the constant light manifests before them, in every place the cliff stands ten thousand fathoms high. Therefore it is said: 'All phenomena do not arise, all phenomena do not perish. If one can understand like this, all buddhas constantly appear before you.' Not only do all buddhas appear before you, but all sentient and insentient beings, the entire boundless ocean of fragrant water, throughout past, present, and future, are completely clear, motionless, unchanging, and undifferentiated, mutually interlacing their radiance like a precious net of silk threads. Do you all see? You should know that this matter has such extraordinary marks and has such power of liberation. Dare I ask the assembly: what power did the late Eighth Lady rely upon? Do you fully understand? The shaking of the lands welcomes Mahāsthāmaprāpta; precious flowers filling the air escort Avalokiteśvara."