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大慧普覺禪師語錄 29.27

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29.27

Within your unyielding character, you nevertheless possess an inconceivable gentleness, such that under a single word a thousand things are settled and a hundred things are right. This matter is extraordinary! If not for occasionally sending forth a few people from among the unyielding, how could the Buddhadharma have reached this day? If one did not possess prajñā capacity, one could not be like this—a glorious event, a glorious event! You instructed: "In the spring and summer of the coming year, I wish to row a bottomless boat, blow a holeless flute, make inexhaustible offerings, and speak of the unarisen, wanting to settle the basis that is without end, without beginning, neither existing nor non-existing. Please just come to deliberate with this faceless fellow, and surely these words will not be mistaken." Furthermore, having received your request for a religious name, precisely wishing to blur things together, you may be called Layman Kuairan (Self-Pleased). Therefore the Old Man Zhenjing said: / "The blissful Great Way is right before your eyes; / Crisscrossing vertically and horizontally, if you hesitate you linger." / This is precisely the meaning. I intend to stay long in Changsha; if you indeed come this way in the future, then beneath the forest it will not be lonely.

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