大慧普覺禪師語錄 19.45

19.45

Impermanence is swift, and birth and death is a great matter. In the realm of sentient beings, matters that accord with birth and death are like hemp and millet. When one batch is cleared away, another batch arrives. If you do not stick the two characters 'birth and death' onto the tip of your nose as an antidote, then only on the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, flustered and confused, like a crab dropped into boiling water, will you begin to know regret, and then it will be too late. If you want a direct cutoff, please cut it off right from this very moment.