圓悟佛果禪師語錄 6.6
English (machine translation) 6.6
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6.6
Requested by the Imperial Noble Consort of the Inner Palace, ascending the hall, [the Master] said: "A single phrase emerges from the crowns of the heads of a thousand sages; a subtle dynamic issues from an inexhaustible treasure store. Completely without reliance, totally devoid of clue or trace, neither form nor mind, neither suchness nor difference—exhausting empty space and spanning the entire Dharma realm, all of it is a great gate of liberation. All of you, drifting about in its coming and going, do you still feel your hair standing on end? If beneath your own feet, when not a single thought arises, the entire body is fully revealed, then it is clean, bare, brisk, and lively: to go if you want to go, to stay if you want to stay, to use if you want to use, to cease if you want to cease, not pointing to a second head, not falling into a second view. Arriving here, from ancient times to the present, it is solidified in serene illumination. If you tread upon it, what trifling matter is penetrating through birth and death? One can, with undefiled faculties and powers, erect the Dharma banner and establish the ancestral lineage, clothing and covering all living beings without exhaustion to the end of future kalpas. Just at such a moment, tell me: whose gracious power is received? Do you understand? The formless Buddha atop the mountain of the five aggregates / Emits light, shakes the earth, and covers the sands of worlds. The verse says: The single mind has no clinging; / The entire realm is the Dharma King's house. / Bringing to perfection undefiled blessings, / Sitting upright on the jewel lotus flower."
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