大慧普覺禪師語錄 1.9

1.9

Ascending the hall, he cited: "A monk asked Lishan, 'All colors return to emptiness; where does emptiness return?' Lishan said, 'The tongue does not leave the mouth.' The monk asked, 'Why is it like this?' Lishan said, 'Because internal and external are as one.'" The Master said: "Phenomena matching like box and lid, principle responding like arrowhead meeting arrowhead—it has to be Lishan to carry this off. If it were Jingshan, it would not be so. Were someone to ask, 'All colors return to emptiness; where does emptiness return?' Peony blossoms open as the faces of bodhisattvas; palm leaves scatter as the heads of yakṣas. Why is it like this? Just manage a committed heart, and you will certainly not be deceived."