密菴和尚語錄 1.314

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蘊扶宗竪教英氣本色，行脚道流不在游州獵縣觀境致過時，務要與生死兩字作頭底直截荷負，跳出斷常窠臼，識得祖父田園落著，收拾契券一一分曉，不被他人侵疆犯界。然後見佛殺佛見祖殺祖，破盡上祖生涯都無顧藉，著弊垢衣，入群魔隊中靡所不為。仰不愧天俯不愧人，顢顢頇頇，大棒打不回頭，千人萬人羅籠不住。一旦業緣成就被人推出，向曲彔床上胡言漢語欺賢罔聖。世人說不到處一一說出；世人做不到處一一做出，傍觀者為他面熱汗下，渠只閑閑地神色儼然。到者般田地，亦未稱扶竪正宗意氣，何況末上被邪師引入草窠裏，以沙糖蜜湯甜其舌頭？纔有些兒黃連氣味便自忌諱，如此永為廢人。學道至要別無他術，須是硬靠却咬猪狗手段，喫得沒滋味，禁得想鉗鎚，千煅萬煉，胸次淨裸裸地全無佛法道理。但恁麼研究，如人學射久久自然中的，誠不誣矣。

Holding the heroic character and true colors that uphold the lineage and establish the teaching, the itinerant practitioner does not wander through prefectures and hunt through counties to view the scenery and pass the time. One must make the two words 'birth and death' one's priority, directly shouldering them, leaping out of the ruts of annihilation and permanence, recognizing where the ancestral fields and gardens lie, gathering the contracts and deeds so that each and every one is clear, and not letting others encroach upon one's borders. Afterward, seeing the Buddha, kill the Buddha; seeing the ancestors, kill the ancestors; exhaustively ruining the livelihood of past ancestors without any regard or attachment, wearing tattered and dirty clothes, entering the ranks of demonic hordes and doing everything. Looking up, unashamed before Heaven; looking down, unashamed before humanity; dull and unpolished, not turning one's head even if struck by a great staff, trapped by neither thousands nor tens of thousands of people. Once the karmic conditions are ripe and one is pushed forward by others, one speaks babble and nonsense upon the curved chair, deceiving the worthy and defrauding the sages. What worldly people cannot speak of, one speaks of completely; what worldly people cannot do, one does completely. Bystanders feel their faces burn and sweat pour down for him, while he remains leisurely, his demeanor dignified. Even reaching such a ground still does not match the spirit of upholding the orthodox lineage—how much less if from the start one is led into the grass thicket by false teachers, having one's tongue sweetened with sugar and honey water? As soon as there is a slight taste of coptis root, one avoids it; such a person remains useless forever. The ultimate essential of studying the Way has no other method: one must firmly rely upon the method of biting dogs and pigs, eating what has no flavor, withstanding the tongs and hammer, being smelted thousands of times and forged tens of thousands of times until the mind is stripped bare and completely devoid of the principles of the Buddha-dharma. Just investigating like this, as when learning archery, after a long time one naturally hits the mark; this is truly no deception.