大慧普覺禪師語錄 7.5

7.5

Addressing the assembly: "'The past Tathāgatas have already accomplished this gate.'" Taking up his staff, he struck once to the left and said: "Let us set it aside to the left. 'The present bodhisattvas now each enter into complete clarity.'" Striking once to the right, he said: "Let us set it aside to the right. 'Future practitioners should rely upon such a dharma.'" Striking once in the middle, he said: "Let us set it aside to the middle. The two extremes must not be established at all, nor is there any need to settle in the middle way. The purity of the knowledge of all knowledge is non-dual and without duality, because it has no distinction and no interruption. Yesterday someone came from Huainan without news from Jiangxi, and reported: 'The bandits downriver have already been suppressed.' On the peak of Mount Yunmen, one farms the fields in exchange for food to eat; if asked about the Chan Way and the Buddhadharma, one's mouth is like a stone pillar base." Then giving a shout, he said: "Where have all those entanglements just now gone?" Striking once again, he said: "Whether there is profit or not, one does not leave the market."