虛堂和尚語錄 2.24

2.24

Ascending the hall, he cited: "Yunmen instructed the assembly: 'Even if you reach the point where whatever meets the eye is unobstructed, and you penetrate the emptiness of all dharmas such as nāmakāya and padakāya; and even if mountains, rivers, and the great earth are merely names, and names too are ungraspable—this being called the full endowment of the samādhi-nature ocean—it is still wave after wave where there is no wind. Even if you reach the point of forgetting knowing within awakening, and awakening is the buddha-nature itself, being called a person of no affairs, you must still know there is an aperture that goes beyond.'" The Master said, "Today Great Master Yunmen has entered your skulls, crisscrossing horizontally and vertically, seeing that you are neither aware nor conscious." He then said, "The land is vast and people are scarce; few are those who meet."