大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.20

7.20

示眾：「纔涉脣吻便落言詮，不落言詮即沈寂默，沈寂默則成誑，滯言詮則成謗，不語不謗不默不誑，須知向上別有一路子，明眼底知有，只是難近傍。」遂拈拄杖云：「拄杖子却近傍得，只是不知有。敢問大眾：近傍得底不知有，知有底近傍不得，正恁麼時，那箇在前？那箇在後？只今眾中莫有不受人謾底麼？試出來定當看。」良久云：「若不藍田射石虎，幾乎誤殺李將軍。」卓一下。

Instructing the assembly, [the Master] said: "The moment it touches lips and mouth, it falls into verbal explanations; not falling into verbal explanations, it sinks into silence. Sinking into silence becomes deception; clinging to verbal explanations becomes slander. Not speaking is not slander, not being silent is not deception. You must know that toward the transcendent there is another path; those with clear eyes know it is there, yet it is simply hard to approach." He then took up his staff and said, "The staff can indeed be approached, but it simply does not know it is there. I venture to ask the great assembly: that which can be approached does not know it is there, and that which knows it is there cannot be approached. Right at such a time, which one is in front, and which one is behind? Right now among the assembly, is there anyone who is not deceived by others? Come forward and try to determine it and see." After a pause he said, "If not for shooting the stone tiger at Lantian, General Li would almost have been killed in vain." He struck once.