大慧普覺禪師語錄 24.14

24.14

In the past, Master Lingyun suddenly awakened to the Way upon seeing peach blossoms, and had a verse: / 'For thirty years a sword-seeking guest, / How many times leaves fell and branches sprouted again! / Ever since seeing the peach blossoms once, / Right up to now I have doubted no more.' / Master Guishan questioned what he had awakened to, and it tallied with his own realization, so he gave his seal of approval, saying, 'Awakened and penetrated through conditions, one never regresses.' Also, Master Xuefeng composed the inscription for his own stūpa, the preface of which states: 'What exists through conditions is produced and destroyed from beginning to end; what is not attained through conditions remains forever solid throughout the kalpas.' As for what these two venerable elders saw, tell me: is it one and the same, or is it two different things? If you say it is one and the same, one considered attainment through conditions to be right, while the other considered attainment through conditions to be wrong. If you say they are two different things, the two great elders could not have each established their own sectarian gates to confuse later people. (Bah!) The goose king sorting milk from water is fundamentally not of the duck's kind. Chan practitioner Zhili, do you know the resting place of these two great elders? If not, Yunmen will directly lay it bare for you: / 'The two arise from the one, / But do not cling to the one either; / When not a single mind arises, / The myriad dharmas are without fault.' / The two passages above are not the same; subsume them under the previous heading. [He draws a circle] (Phat!)