[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大慧普覺禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a) › 12.42 # 大慧普覺禪師語錄 12.42 大慧普覺禪師語錄 12.42 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [12.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.42) 太湖三萬六千頃之渺茫，即師之口也。洞庭七十一二朵之巍峭，即師之舌也。不動口，不搖舌，已說現說當說，無少無剩也。回狂瀾，起既倒，活必死之疾於膏肓，即師荷擔大法而主盟此道也。至於飛鯤鵬於藕絲竅中，置須彌盧於蟭螟睫上，而無寬曠迫隘之量也。我生師之後而不識師，今覩師之遺像而作是言者，蓋欲一類闡提毛道凡夫與夫敗善根非器眾生，使其知有吾門單傳直指之妙而已也。 > The boundless expanse of Lake Tai’s thirty-six thousand qing is the master’s mouth. The towering heights of Dongting’s seventy-two peaks are the master’s tongue. Without moving his mouth and without wagging his tongue, what he has spoken, what he speaks now, and what he will speak is neither deficient nor superfluous. Turning back the raging waves and lifting what had fallen, curing fatal illnesses deep in the organs, this is how the master bore the Great Dharma and led this Path. As for flying the kun-peng within the pore of a lotus fiber, or placing Mount Sumeru upon the eyelash of a midge, there is no measure of spaciousness or confinement. Having been born after the master, I did not know him in person; my uttering these words upon viewing his portrait today is solely to let the icchantikas, ignorant ordinary beings, and degenerate persons of ruined faculties know that our school possesses the wonder of direct pointing in single transmission. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 12.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.41) - [Next: 12.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.43) - [Up: 12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a~en-mt.12.42) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.12.42) · Pramāṇa