密菴和尚語錄 1.71

1.71

On the Lantern Festival, he ascended the hall: "Today is the Lantern Festival; everywhere lantern balls are hung. One lamp ignites hundreds and thousands of lamps, lamp after lamp continuing, layer upon layer without end, like a precious silk net. The Buddhas of the three periods appear within light and shadow; the six generations of patriarchs preach the Dharma and save people within light and shadow; the four kinds of sages and six kinds of ordinary beings emerge and submerge within light and shadow; the mountains, rivers, and great earth are established within light and shadow. If you can thoroughly believe this, seeking where light and shadow come from is completely impossible, and you will then sit atop the heads of the reward and transformation Buddhas. If you cannot believe it, throughout the twelve periods of the day you will be driven topsy-turvy by light and shadow."