圓悟佛果禪師語錄 8.21

8.21

Ascending the hall: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven; seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. The steelyard's zero-point star on a whirlwind chariot; blowing the tartarpin reed pipe at the top of a hundred-foot pole. Yi!" He further brought up: "One day Yunmen instructed the assembly, saying, 'Monks, do not engage in idle thinking: mountains are mountains, rivers are rivers, monks are monks, laypeople are laypeople.' At that time a monk came forward and said, 'What about when the student sees mountains as mountains and rivers as rivers?' Yunmen drew a stroke with his hand and said, 'Why did the Buddha hall pass by here?'" The master commented: "Like the earth carrying a mountain, like a rock enclosing jade. Those who can penetrate it are completely within the inexhaustible treasury; those who cannot penetrate it inevitably engage in calculation. Just as Yunmen drew a stroke with his hand and said, 'Why did the Buddha hall pass by here?'—what about that? When a single leaf falls, one knows autumn has arrived across the world."