大慧普覺禪師語錄 23.20

23.20

怕怖生死底，疑根拔不盡，百劫千生流浪隨業受報，頭出頭沒無休息時。苟能猛著精彩，一拔淨盡，便能不離眾生心而見佛心。若夙有願力，遇真正善知識，善巧方便誘誨，則有甚難處？不見古德有言：「江湖無礙人之心，佛祖無謾人之意。」只為時人過不得，不得道江湖不礙人；佛祖言教雖不謾人，只為學此道者錯認方便，於一言一句中求玄求妙，求得求失，因而透不得，不得道佛祖不謾人。如患盲之人，不見日月光，是盲者過，非日月咎。此是學此道離文字相，離分別相，離語言相底第四箇樣子，妙明居士思之。

For those who fear birth and death, the root of doubt has not been completely uprooted; wandering for hundreds of kalpas and thousands of lifetimes, receiving retribution in accord with their karma, bobbing up and down without rest. If you can vigorously muster your spirit and uproot it cleanly at once, you will be able to see the buddha-mind without leaving the sentient-being mind. If you have past vow-power and meet a genuine good spiritual friend who guides and instructs you with skillful means, what difficulty could there be? Have you not seen what an ancient worthy said: 'Rivers and lakes have no mind to obstruct people; buddhas and patriarchs have no intention to deceive people.' It is merely because people of the world cannot cross over that one cannot say rivers and lakes do not obstruct people. Although the spoken teachings of the buddhas and patriarchs do not deceive people, it is merely because students of this Way mistakenly take skillful means, seeking the mysterious and wondrous, seeking gain and loss within a single word or phrase, and thereby cannot penetrate through, that one cannot say the buddhas and patriarchs do not deceive people. It is like a blind person who cannot see the light of the sun and moon: it is the fault of the blind person, not the blame of the sun and moon. This is the fourth model of studying this Way free from the characteristic of words, free from the characteristic of discrimination, and free from the characteristic of language. May Layman Miaoming reflect on this.