大慧普覺禪師語錄 19.17

19.17

Recently in the monasteries, they take the ancient masters' extraordinary words and marvelous sayings in question and answer to be differentiated conditions and bewitch students with them, completely failing to base themselves on the reality. The buddhas preach the Dharma only fearing that people will not understand; even if there are hidden or covered teachings, they draw upon analogies alongside to cause sentient beings to awaken and enter, and that is all. For instance, a monk asked Mazu: "What is the Buddha?" Mazu said: "Mind itself is Buddha." When awakening and entering here, what differentiation is there? If you do not awaken here, this very "mind itself is Buddha" becomes a differentiated condition.