圓悟佛果禪師語錄 9.13

9.13

At an informal gathering on a winter night, the master said: "The great potential of the Buddhas and patriarchs, the true eye of gods and humans: when omens have not yet divided, there are not so many matters. When the single breath has divided, there are production, abiding, change, and destruction, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. If you follow the waves and pursue the swells, establishing all kinds of things, you will be completely unimpeded everywhere. If you cut off the manifold streams, holding fast the essential ford, you will not let ordinary or sage pass. If you do not step into either path and are pure and unconstrained beneath your feet, would you not be a patch-robed monk of the fundamental lot? Now tell me: on the ground where there is neither yin nor yang, how does one communicate the news? Just wait until the end of the third month next year; do not say that after winter the snow and frost are cold."