大慧普覺禪師語錄 6.2

6.2

On the tenth day of the first month in the twenty-eighth year of Shaoxing, the Master accepted the invitation at Guangli Chan Monastery on Mount Ayuwang in Mingzhou. Having faced the imperial palace and given thanks for imperial favor, he held up the yellow imperial decree, showed it to the assembly, and said: "Bodhidharma did not come to the Eastern land; the Second Patriarch did not go to the Western Heaven. In everyone, the constant light is manifest before them; each stands like a wall ten thousand cubits high. Tell me: where does this come from? If you know where it comes from, its use will be inexhaustible. If not, please have the karmadāna clearly proclaim it, so that everyone may know it is there." After it was proclaimed, he offered incense and prayed for the Emperor, then took his seat and said: "Before the Hall of Good Dharma, auspicious qi is fresh; the imperial edict comes from the ninefold city walls. Relying only on a single unselfish word, I offer prayers for our Emperor's hundred million springs."