密菴和尚語錄 1.312

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馬祖道：「即心即佛，非心非佛，不是心不是佛不是物。」與麼揭示學者，恰如掘箇深坑活埋了人，却向上面奠祭也。德山一條白棒，佛來也打，祖來也打，又道：「三十年來未曾打著箇獨脫底。」何曾夢見達磨未來時汗臭氣在？衲僧家十二時中，行住坐臥如火燒水，莫誇少壯，休論老成，一處錯踏翻，千處百處一時透，如獅子王吒沙地哮吼一聲壁立萬仞，豈不慶快平生？當人幸有如是威光，幸有如是受用，不肯回頭自覷捕，多是坐在他人語默裏，及至終身無所成立。若要易會，不必泥在三條椽下，但向逆順堆中攧撲不碎，自覺省力，便是破家散宅時節至矣。

Mazu said: 'Mind is Buddha; neither mind nor Buddha; it is not mind, not Buddha, not a thing.' Revealing it to students like this is just like digging a deep pit, burying someone alive, and then holding a sacrificial offering above it. Deshan had a single white staff: when a Buddha came he struck, when an ancestor came he struck; he also said: 'For thirty years I have never struck one who is uniquely free.' When did he ever dream of the sweat-stink before Bodhidharma had come? For patch-robed monks throughout the twelve periods of the day, in walking, standing, sitting, and lying down, it should be like fire scorching water. Do not boast of youth and vigor; do not talk of age and maturity. If you overturn and shatter it in one place, thousands of places and hundreds of places are penetrated all at once—like the lion king roaring with open jaws, standing like a wall of ten thousand cubits. Would that not be the joy of a lifetime? When a person fortunately has such majesty and light, and fortunately has such enjoyment, yet is unwilling to turn around and look for themselves, they mostly sit within others' speech and silence, until their whole lives end with nothing established. If you wish to understand easily, you need not be stuck under three rafters; just remain unbroken amidst the heap of adversity and prosperity, feeling the effort saved—then the time of bankrupting the family and scattering the house has arrived.