圓悟佛果禪師語錄 5.19

5.19

On the occasion of Director Li holding an annual memorial vegetarian feast, the Master ascended the hall and said: "Great assembly! The Tathāgata's nirvāṇa-mind, the bodhisattvas' great liberation, the Patriarchs' Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, and the patch-robed monk's diamond hammer—having illumination and having function, having the provisional and having the real, having release and having capture, having killing and having giving life: these are still on the transcendent pivotal axis. If someone appears and disappears in this place, or raises and holds aloft in this place, he still cannot be completely and dynamically stripped free. If one is completely and dynamically stripped free, then transforming the great earth into gold, churning the long river into ghee, changing stalks of grain into millet stems, and converting a short life into long years—none of this is beyond one's lot. Why? Holding aloft the transcendent lineage guideline and employing the adepts' nostrils, we turn the year's beginning to this morning and celebrate the year on this day. Right at such a time, how is it? Raising a high banner amid a crowd of ten thousand, laying flowers upon brocade, adding ever more radiance."