[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) › 29.7 # 大慧普覺禪師語錄 29.7 大慧普覺禪師語錄 29.7 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [29.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.29.7) 吾佛大聖人，能空一切相，成萬法智，而不能即滅定業，況博地凡夫耶？居士既是箇中人，想亦常入是三昧。昔有僧問一老宿：「世界恁麼熱，未審向甚麼處回避？」老宿曰：「向鑊湯鑪炭裏回避。」曰：「只如鑊湯鑪炭裏，作麼生回避？」曰：「眾苦不能到。」願居士日用四威儀中，只如此做工夫。老宿之言不可忽，此是妙喜得効底藥方，非與居士此道相契、此心相知，亦不肯容易傳授，只用一念相應，草湯下更不用別湯使；若用別湯使，令人發狂，不可不知也。一念相應草，不用他求，亦只在居士四威儀中，明處明如日，黑處黑如漆，若信手拈來，以本地風光一照，無有錯者，亦能殺人，亦能活人，故佛祖常以此藥向鑊湯鑪炭裏，醫苦惱眾生生死大病，號大醫王。不識居士還信得及否？若言我自有父子不傳之祕方，不用向鑊湯鑪炭裏回避底妙術，却望居士布施也。 > Our Buddha, the Great Sage, could empty all marks and accomplish the wisdom of the myriad dharmas, yet he could not immediately extinguish fixed karma; how much less can an ordinary being bound to the earth do so? Since you, Layman, are a person in the midst of this, I presume you also constantly enter this samādhi. Formerly, a monk asked an elder: 'The world is so hot; where should one avoid it?' The elder said: 'Avoid it in the boiling cauldron and furnace coals.' The monk said: 'Just how does one avoid it in the boiling cauldron and furnace coals?' The elder said: 'The multitude of sufferings cannot reach there.' I hope that you, Layman, in your four deportments in daily life, will just do the practice like this. The elder's words must not be neglected; this is a prescription with which Miaoxi achieved efficacy. Were it not that I tally with you in this Way and know you in this mind, I would not be willing to transmit it lightly. Just use a single thought of correspondence, decocted with grass broth; do not use any other broth. If you use another broth, it will drive a person mad; this must not be unknown. The herb of a single thought of correspondence need not be sought elsewhere; it is also just within your four deportments: in bright places it is bright as the sun, and in dark places it is black as lacquer. If you pick it up casually and illuminate it with original scenery, not one will be mistaken; it can kill people, and it can also bring people to life. Therefore, the buddhas and ancestors constantly use this medicine in the boiling cauldron and furnace coals to treat the great illness of birth and death of afflicted sentient beings, and are called Great Kings of Medicine. I do not know whether you can fully believe in it or not? If you say that you yourself have a secret recipe not transmitted from father to son, and do not need the marvelous art of avoiding it in the boiling cauldron and furnace coals, then I look forward to you bestowing it in alms. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 29.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.29.6) - [Next: 29.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.29.8) - [Up: 29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.29) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a~en-mt.29.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.29.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1998a.29.7) · Pramāṇa