密菴和尚語錄 1.337

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本色參學道流，入叢林見知識決欲洞明生死己躬大事，無非具殺人不眨眼底氣概，更不思前算後，𢬵其性命都無顧藉，一向硬赳赳地將心就一處研究，不捨晝夜。驀然一覷覷透，一咬咬斷，通上徹下全體是箇大解脫門，活鱍鱍地，見佛見祖如破草鞋，聞禪與道如風遏樹，亦未是泊頭處在。正好入大爐鞴中煅煉，直教聖凡情量徹底淨盡，透得金剛圈、吞得栗棘蓬，逗到大休大歇之場，身心若枯木寒灰，大棒打不回頭，千人萬人羅籠不住。白日只閑閑地，出一言半句快如倚天長劍，便能殺人亦能活人。千變萬化卓卓盡超格，則諸聖著眼不到，萬靈瞻仰無門，亦未可共語臨濟宗旨，更須知有「入林不動草，入水不動波」一著子。且道如何是入林不動草，入水不動波一著子？問取上人。

When genuine, seasoned students of the Way enter the monasteries and meet spiritual mentors, determined to see clearly into the great matter of their own birth and death, they invariably possess the mettle of a man who can kill without batting an eye. Without thinking back or calculating forward, risking their lives without any regard, they press on vigorously, focusing their minds on this one point to investigate it without slackening day or night. Suddenly they see through it with one glance, bite it through with one bite, and from top to bottom the whole being is one great gate of liberation—vivid and lively. Seeing the Buddhas and seeing the patriarchs is like looking at worn-out straw sandals; hearing of Chan and the Way is like the wind striking the trees. Yet even this is not the place to anchor. It is the very time to enter the great furnace and be forged, so that all feelings and calculations of the sacred and profane are thoroughly cleansed. Penetrating the vajra hoop, swallowing the thorny chestnut burr, one arrives at the realm of great rest and cessation: body and mind are like withered wood and cold ashes; even a great staff cannot beat one into turning the head; thousands and tens of thousands cannot ensnare one. During the day, one simply stays leisurely; uttering a single word or half a phrase, it is as sharp as a sword propped against the sky, able to kill people and able to bring people to life. In thousands of transformations, lofty and entirely exceeding all standards, all the sages cannot catch sight of it, and all the spirits find no gate through which to gaze upon it. Still, one cannot yet speak with them of the Linji lineage's essential principle; one must further know the move of 'entering the forest without rustling the grass, entering the water without stirring the waves.' And tell me, what is the move of entering the forest without rustling the grass, entering the water without stirring the waves? Go ask the Venerable.