大慧普覺禪師語錄 19.13

19.13

An ancient worthy said: "To seek an ox, one must follow the tracks; / to study the Way, seek no-mind. / Where the tracks are, the ox remains; / with no-mind, the Way is easy to find." What is called "no-mind" is not being stubbornly insensate like earth, wood, tile, or stone; it means that when touching circumstances and encountering conditions, the mind is settled and unmoving, does not grasp at any dharma, is completely unhindered and unobstructed in all places, is without defilement, yet does not abide in the place of non-defilement either; viewing the body and viewing the mind as like a dream and like an illusion, yet not abiding in the realm of dreams, illusions, or voidness. Only when arriving at such a realm can it truly be called genuine no-mind, and it is not a no-mind merely spoken of by mouth. If you have not attained genuine no-mind and merely rely on what is spoken, how does that differ from the heterodox Chan of silent illumination?