圓悟佛果禪師語錄 8.3

8.3

On New Year's Day, ascending the hall: "The prime beginning opens good fortune, throwing open the doors. The myriad things are renewed, heaven and earth share in spring. In accord with the season, receiving blessings without falling into conventional grooves, fully fitting in every way, myriad ages in a single instant. The first month of spring is still cold; I respectfully wish the head monk and the great assembly ten thousand blessings in their daily lives. Begging fire, one obtains it along with smoke; carrying spring water, one returns bringing along the moon." He added: "If on New Year's Day there is Buddha Dharma, it is precisely adding mud on top of dirt. If on New Year's Day there is no Buddha Dharma, it turns into missing it right to one's face. Arriving here, Buddha Dharma and worldly dharma, existence and nonexistence, new and old—sweep them all aside at once! And how do you speak a phrase that does not fall into dependent conditions? Do you understand? Heaven and earth in a single embrace: a sesame pancake of earth; the two orbs of sun and moon: a leather ball of weather."