大慧普覺禪師語錄 23.21

23.21

疑生不知來處，死不知去處底心未忘，則是生死交加。但向交加處，看箇話頭，僧問趙州和尚：「狗子還有佛性也無？」州云：「無。」但將這疑生不知來處、死不知去處底心，移來無字上，則交加之心不行矣。交加之心既不行，則疑生死來去底心將絕矣。但向欲絕未絕處，與之廝崖，時節因緣到來，驀然噴地一下，便了教中所謂絕心生死，止心不善，伐心稠林，浣心垢濁者也。然心何有垢？心何有濁？謂分別善惡雜毒所鍾，亦謂之不善，亦謂之垢濁，亦謂之稠林。若真實得噴地一下，只此稠林即是栴檀香林，只此垢濁即是清淨解脫無作妙體，此體本來無染，非使然也。分別不生虛明自照，便是這些道理。此是宗師令學者捨邪歸正底第五箇樣子，妙明居士但只依此參，久久自築著磕著也。

When the mind that doubts birth—not knowing whence it comes—and death—not knowing whither it goes—is not yet forgotten, then birth and death are intertwined. Just toward this place of intertwining, observe a huatou: A monk asked Master Zhaozhou, 'Does even a dog have buddha-nature, or not?' Zhou said, 'No (wu).' Simply take this mind that doubts birth not knowing whence it comes and death not knowing whither it goes, and shift it onto the word 'wu'; then the intertwined mind will not operate. Once the intertwined mind does not operate, the mind doubting the coming and going of birth and death will be on the verge of cessation. Just toward the point where it is about to cease but has not yet ceased, push and rub against it; when the time and conditions arrive, with a sudden burst, you will instantly conclude what the teachings call putting an end to the mind of birth and death, halting the mind of unwholesomeness, cutting down the thicket of the mind, and washing clean the defilement and turbidity of the mind. Yet how could the mind have defilement? How could the mind have turbidity? That which is concentrated by the miscellaneous poisons of discriminating good and evil is also called unwholesomeness, also called defilement and turbidity, and also called a thicket. If you truly obtain that sudden burst, this very thicket is itself the sandalwood incense forest; this very defilement and turbidity is itself the pure, liberated, unconditioned wondrous substance. This substance is originally unstained; it is not made so. When discrimination does not arise, emptiness and brightness shine of themselves—this is precisely the principle. This is the fifth model of an ancestral master causing students to abandon the heterodox and return to the correct. Layman Miaoming, simply investigate relying on this; after a long time, you will bump into it and hit upon it of yourself.