圓悟佛果禪師語錄 4.6

4.6

Ascending the hall at the start of the summer retreat, he said: “A single speck of dust contains the boundless Dharma realm; yet upon meticulous scrutiny, there is still an empty gap. A hundred billion tip-of-a-hair lions appear all at once on a hundred billion hair-tips; yet upon genuine appraisal, this is still not talk of the ultimate. If one discusses the matter of the fundamental lot: great people possess great views, and great wisdom attains great function. Even if the boundless seas of fragrant water were exhausted and an ineffable-ineffable number of worlds were transcended, all of them would merely be one’s own peaceful dwelling place; yet raising a single thought to transcend boundless oceans of lands is still not where a patch-robed monk treads. Without running against sharp edges, without clinging to gain and loss, without falling into dualistic views, and without abiding in between—precisely in such a moment, how is it? / Ninety days in the mountains, / Countless millennia beyond the clouds.”