大慧普覺禪師語錄 26.11

26.11

富樞密頃在三衢時，嘗有書來問道，因而打葛藤一上，落草不少，尚爾滯在默照處，定是遭邪師引入鬼窟裏無疑。今又得書，復執靜坐為佳，其滯泥如此，如何參得徑山禪？今次答渠書，又復縷縷葛藤，不惜口業，痛與剗除，又不知肯回頭轉腦，於日用中看話頭否？先聖云：「寧可破戒如須彌山，不可被邪師熏一邪念。」如芥子許在情識中，如油入麫永不可出，此公是也。如與之相見，試取答渠底葛藤一觀，因而作箇方便救取此人。四攝法中以同事攝為最彊，左右當大啟此法門，令其信入，不唯省得山僧一半力，亦使渠信得及，肯離舊窟也。

When Bureau Administrator Fu was previously in Sanqu, he once sent a letter asking about the Path. In response, I spun out some vines and descended into the grass not a little; yet he still stagnates in the place of silent illumination, having definitely been led into a ghost cave by false teachers without a doubt. Now I have received his letter again, and he again clings to quiet sitting as fine; being stuck and mired like this, how could he practice Jingshan Chan? In my letter answering him this time, I have again spun out vines at length, not begrudging vocal karma, to painfully root it out; yet I do not know whether he is willing to turn his head around and look at the huatou in his daily life or not. An ancient sage said: 'Better to break the precepts as high as Mount Sumeru than to be perfumed by a false teacher with a single false thought.' If a mustard seed's amount [of false thought] enters emotional consciousness, it is like oil entering flour, never to be extracted; this gentleman is an example of this. If you meet with him, try taking the vines of my reply to him and let him look at it, and thereby make an expedient means to rescue this person. Among the four methods of attraction, attraction through colleagueship is the most powerful; you should broadly open this dharma gate and cause him to enter with faith. Not only will this save this mountain monk half the effort, but it will also enable him to have full faith and be willing to leave his old cave.