圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.35
English (machine translation) 4.35
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4.35
At the beginning of the summer retreat, being requested, [the Master] ascended the hall and said: "Widely opening the doors and windows, who is it facing the porch? Having no face to be seen, yet unhidden throughout the realm; having no form or appearance to be viewed, the complete potential uniquely functions. Because there is no face, all marks are distinct; because there is no form, the ten bodies are fully complete. The gate of liberation is opened wide, the site of selecting buddhas is magnificently inaugurated, performing inconceivable meritorious deeds, accomplishing immeasurable excellent marvels—causing the one to be immeasurable and the immeasurable to be one, the great to appear in the small and the small to appear in the great, sitting within a dust mote turning the great dharmacakra. Yet this alone is still not the patch-robed monk's fundamental lot. If within this the bottom of the pail falls out and the five-colored threads break, with no dharma before the eyes and no dynamic outside the mind, then completely blending all things without any doing, accomplishing all phenomena so that the complete substance is revealed. And right at such a moment, how do you speak a phrase that does not fall into meritorious deeds? A three-foot Dragon Spring [sword] whose light illuminates the gallbladder, seizing the high banner amidst a crowd of ten thousand people."
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- 圓悟佛果禪師語錄 — Classical Chinese