虛堂和尚語錄 8.97

8.97

Ascending the hall, he cited: "Great Master Yongjia said: 'All reckoning phrases and non-reckoning phrases—what connection do they have with my luminous awareness?' Is not the wondrous clarity of luminous awareness a reckoning phrase? Are not forms, sounds, scents, tastes, touchables, and phenomena reckoning phrases? Everyday the mountains resound and the valleys echo, the wind rises and the waters surge—are these not reckoning phrases? Even though it is like this, where then do you place Great Master Yongjia Zhenjue?" He struck with his staff: "On the lips: bi ban bin gou bo; on the tongue: dang di di du ding."