大慧普覺禪師語錄 20.17

20.17

龐居士一日在草菴中獨坐，驀地云：「難！難！十碩油麻樹上攤。」龐婆聞得接聲云：「易！易！百草頭上祖師意。」女子靈照云：「也不難，也不易，飢來喫飯困來睡。」妙喜曰：「此三人同行不同步，同得不同失。」若以心意識摶量卜度，非獨不見三人落著處，十二時中亦自昧却自己本地風光，不見本來面目，未免被難易不難易牽挽，不得自在。欲得自在，請將此三人道底，作一句看。妙喜已是他泥帶水，下註脚了也。古德有言：「但辦肯心，必不相賺。」只恐當人信不及，於日用應緣處被外境所奪，不能純一做工夫則成間斷，當間斷時未免方寸擾擾，正擾擾時却是箇好底時節。佛言：「居一切時不起妄念，於諸妄心亦不息滅，住妄想境不加了知，於無了知不辨真實。」便是這箇道理也。這箇道理，說似人不得，唯證悟者舉起便知落處。

One day Layman Pang was sitting alone in his thatched hut and suddenly said: "Difficult! Difficult! Ten pecks of sesame seeds spread on the tree!" Pang's wife, hearing this, chimed in: "Easy! Easy! On the tips of the hundred grasses, the Patriarch's meaning!" His daughter Lingzhao said: "Neither difficult nor easy: when hungry, eat rice; when tired, sleep." Miaoxi says: "These three people walk together but do not take the same step; they attain together but do not lose together." If one calculates and surmises with the mind, intellect, and consciousness, not only will one fail to see the resting place of these three people, but throughout the twelve periods of the day one will also be blind to one's own original ground and scenery, not seeing one's original face, unavoidably dragged along by difficult, easy, neither difficult, nor easy, unable to attain ease. If you wish to attain ease, please take what these three people said and look at it as a single phrase. Miaoxi has already dragged mud and water, adding footnotes for him. An ancient worthy said: "Just generate a consenting mind, and you will certainly not be deceived." One only fears that the person lacks sufficient faith, and in daily life, responding to conditions, is carried away by external objects, unable to apply effort single-mindedly, thereby creating interruptions. When there are interruptions, the mind is unavoidably perturbed; but right when it is perturbed, it is actually an excellent time. The Buddha said: "Dwelling at all times without giving rise to deluded thoughts; toward all deluded minds, not putting them to rest; abiding in the realm of delusive thoughts, not adding understanding; and regarding non-understanding, not distinguishing the real." This is just this principle. This principle cannot be explained to others; only one who has verified awakening knows where it lands as soon as it is raised.