[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [大慧普覺禪師語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a) › 27.7 # 大慧普覺禪師語錄 27.7 大慧普覺禪師語錄 27.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [27.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.27.7) 左右做靜勝工夫，積有年矣。不識於開眼應物處，得心地安閑否？若未得安閑，是靜勝工夫未得力也。若許久猶未得力，當求箇徑截得力處，方始不辜負平昔許多工夫也。平昔做靜勝工夫，只為要支遣箇鬧底，正鬧時却被鬧底聒擾自家方寸，却似平昔不曾做靜勝工夫一般耳。這箇道理，只為太近，遠不出自家眼睛裏，開眼便刺著，合眼處亦不缺少，開口便道著，合口處亦自現成，擬欲起心動念承當，渠早已蹉過十萬八千了也。直是無爾用心處，這箇最是省力。而今學此道者，多是要用力求，求之轉失，向之愈背，那堪墮在得失解路上，謂鬧處失者多，靜處失者少？左右在靜勝處住了二十餘年，試將些子得力底來看則箇，若將樁樁地底，做靜中得力處，何故却向鬧處失却？而今要得省力靜鬧一如，但只透取趙州無字。忽然透得，方知靜鬧兩不相妨，亦不著用力支撐，亦不作無支撐解矣。 > You have done the work of quiet superiority for accumulated years. I wonder, at the place where you open your eyes and respond to things, have you attained leisure and ease of mind? If you have not yet attained leisure and ease, then your work of quiet superiority has not gained power. If after so long it still has not gained power, you should seek a shortcut where it gains power, only then not letting down so much effort of the past. Doing the work of quiet superiority in the past was merely to ward off what is noisy; when right in the midst of noise, one is instead clamorously disturbed by the noisy within one's own square inch, it is just as if one had never done the work of quiet superiority in the past. This principle is merely too close—it does not go beyond your own eyes. Opening your eyes, it immediately pierces you; at the place where you close your eyes, it is also not lacking. Opening your mouth, you immediately speak of it; at the place where you close your mouth, it is also self-evident. Intending to give rise to mind and stir thoughts to take it up, you have already missed it by a hundred and eight thousand \[leagues\]. Truly there is nowhere for you to use your mind; this is what saves the most effort. Nowadays, most students of this Way want to seek with effort; seeking it, they lose it all the more; facing it, they turn their backs all the more. How much worse is it to fall into the conceptual path of gain and loss, saying that in noisy places there are many losses and in quiet places there are few losses? You have dwelt in the place of quiet superiority for more than twenty years; try bringing forth a bit of what has gained power for me to see! If you take what is rigid and immovable as gaining power in quietude, why is it lost when facing noise? Now, if you want to save effort and have quiet and noise be as one, simply penetrate Zhaozhou's character 'Wu'. Once you suddenly penetrate it, only then will you know that quiet and noise do not hinder each other; you will also not need to exert effort to prop things up, nor will you make an understanding of having no propping up. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 27.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.27.6) - [Next: 27.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.27.8) - [Up: 27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.27) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a~en-mt.27.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.27.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.27.7) · Pramāṇa