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大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.7

大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.7

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Classical Chinese

7.7

示眾:「永嘉道:『非不非,是不是,差之毫釐失千里。是則龍女頓成佛,非則善星生陷墜。』永嘉親見六祖來,要且只在是非裏。雲門即不然,非不非,是不是,仰面看天,低頭覷地。惺惺時直是惺惺,瞌睡時一向瞌睡,也無佛法可商量,亦無塵勞可回避,有時睡裏驚覺來,元是猫兒捉老鼠。」

Instructing the assembly, [the Master] said: "Yongjia said: 'Wrong is not wrong, right is not right; an error of a hair's breadth misses by a thousand miles. If right, the dragon girl instantly attains buddhahood; if wrong, Sunakṣatra falls alive [into hell].' Yongjia personally met the Sixth Patriarch, yet in the end he remained only within 'right' and 'wrong'. Yunmen is not so: wrong is not wrong, right is not right; look up to view the sky, bow the head to peer at the earth. When awake, just be truly awake; when sleepy, sleep all the way through. There is neither buddhadharma to deliberate over, nor worldly toil to avoid. Sometimes startled awake in sleep—it turns out to be a cat catching a mouse."

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