圓悟佛果禪師語錄 7.31

7.31

Inviting Chan Master Jue of Changlu, [the Master] ascended the hall: "Sharing half the seat before the Many Children Pagoda cuts off the manifold flows; facing the wall in upright veneration at Shaolin for nine years stands like a wall ten thousand cubits high. Exerting the adept's smelting furnace, applying the transcendent hammer and tongs, manifesting great function and great potential, completely giving life and completely killing, drawing out nails and pulling out pegs, loosening stickiness and undoing bonds for all people, causing the people of the great earth each to be like a lion cub rushing forward, bristle-haired, crouching on the ground and leaping back. Therefore it is said: 'The Dharma power of the Dharma King transcends all beings; he constantly bestows the Dharma wealth upon all. Long accumulating pure karma, praised as boundless, he guides the multitude with silence, so we bow.' Being like this, one extends a hand toward the precipice of ten thousand cubits, beating and singing proceeding together; taking a step from the hundred-foot pole, host and guest interchanging. Exactly at such a time, how is it? As the dragon roars, long mists arise; as the tiger growls, wind is born." He also said: "Bumping into a companion of the Way, passing shoulder to shoulder, a lifetime's work of study and practice is finished. Today, fortunately meeting the Great Guide, the jewel-flower royal seat is brought forth for him."