密菴和尚語錄 1.102

1.102

上堂：「經行及坐臥，常在於其中，做牛便要拕犁拽把，做馬便乃㘅鐵負鞍。為人原始要終，不求諸聖、不重己靈，或則三條椽下，或則鬧市門頭。成佛作祖，披毛戴角，上天堂、入地獄，擔鐵枷喫鐵棒，總不為分外。百千年後築著聱頭，拳踢相應，鼻孔遼天，也怪山僧不得。何故？賊無種，相鼓籠。」

Ascending the hall: "Walking, sitting, and lying down—always right in the midst of it. When being an ox, one must pull the plow and drag the harrow; when being a horse, one must bite the bit and bear the saddle. As a person, tracing things from beginning to end, one does not seek from the sages, nor does one value one's own numinous nature—whether under three rafters or in the midst of the bustling marketplace. Becoming a buddha and acting as a patriarch, wearing fur and bearing horns, ascending to heaven, entering hell, carrying an iron cangue, and taking iron blows—none of this is outside one's lot. If hundreds of thousands of years later you stumble into a stubborn fellow, fist and kick responding to each other, with nostrils piercing high heaven, you cannot blame this mountain monk either. Why is this? A thief has no specific stock; they just swindle each other."