大慧普覺禪師語錄 8.13

8.13

Beginning the summer retreat, he instructed the assembly: "Today is the day the monks begin the retreat. Monk Zonggao of Yunmen Hermitage, together with the true person without rank upon the lump of red flesh and the present pure great assembly, taking the dharmadhātu as the monastery, will dwell peacefully within it with all the bodhisattvas for ninety days—jumping through the vajra hoop, swallowing the spiky chestnut burr, performing Buddhist works in a dream, subduing the demon armies in a mirror. The three karmic activities are pure, the six sense organs bright and spotless; the four deportments of the body are free from all faults, mysteriously matching the Tathāgata's one hundred and forty great vows, and continuing the seed of the Three Jewels without ever breaking off. If one can cultivate and realize like this and dwell peacefully like this, one is a great hero, a true home-leaver; there is no need to scrupulously guard a wax man or protect snow like a goose. If it is not yet so, Zhao Zhou hung a calabash on the east wall—do not say it is fine not to doubt." He struck the meditation bed and stepped down from the seat.