大慧普覺禪師語錄 19.34

19.34

莫愛諸方奇言妙句，宗師各自主張，密室傳授底，古人公案之類，此等雜毒收拾在藏識中，劫劫生生取不出，生死岸頭非獨不得力，日用亦被此障礙，道眼不得明徹。古人不得已，見汝學者差別知解多而背道泥語言，故以差別之藥，治汝差別之病，令汝心地安樂到無差別境界。今返以差別語言為奇特，執藥為病，可不悲夫。

Do not take a fancy to the unusual words and wondrous phrases of the various quarters, the claims made by masters of lineages on their own, the teachings transmitted in secret rooms, and kinds of gong'ans of the ancients. When such miscellaneous poisons are gathered up in your storehouse consciousness, they cannot be taken out for kalpas and births. Not only will they be of no help at the shore of birth and death, but in daily life you will also be obstructed by them, so that your eye of the Way cannot become clearly penetrating. The ancients had no choice: seeing that you students had much differentiated intellectual understanding, turned your backs on the Way, and were bogged down in words and phrases, they used differentiated medicines to cure your differentiated diseases, causing the ground of your mind to be peaceful and joyous, reaching the realm of non-differentiation. Nowadays, on the contrary, people take differentiated words and phrases as extraordinary, clinging to the medicine as a disease—is this not lamentable?