大慧普覺禪師語錄 19.32

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19.32

The sages from antiquity had no verbal transmission; they only spoke of transmitting mind with mind. Nowadays, people mostly rely on masterly inheritance and conceptual understanding, turning their backs on this mind, taking verbal transmission as the lineage doctrine. As teachers, their eyes are not straight, and the learners also lack determined resolve; in their haste to understand Chan, they only seek to keep their mouths from being empty, so they will have something to say. To wish for the mind-ground to open and penetrate, reaching the realm of ultimate peace and happiness—is that not difficult?

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