大慧普覺禪師語錄 19.45

19.45

無常迅速，生死事大，眾生界中順生死底事，如麻似粟，撥整了一番，又一番到來，若不把生死兩字貼在鼻尖兒上作對治，則直待臘月三十日，手忙脚亂，如落湯螃蟹時，方始知悔，則遲也。若要直截，請從而今便截斷。

Impermanence is swift, and birth and death is a great matter. In the realm of sentient beings, matters that accord with birth and death are like hemp and millet. When one batch is cleared away, another batch arrives. If you do not stick the two characters 'birth and death' onto the tip of your nose as an antidote, then only on the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, flustered and confused, like a crab dropped into boiling water, will you begin to know regret, and then it will be too late. If you want a direct cutoff, please cut it off right from this very moment.