宏智禪師廣錄 4.202

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上堂舉僧問香嚴。如何是道。嚴云。枯木裏龍吟。如何是道中人。髑髏裏眼睛。師云。耳應聲而無響。眼有照而亡緣。曠劫清規裏許圓。生死死生不到處。雲磨秋色水連天。

Ascending the hall, he cited: A monk asked Xiangyan, "What is the Way?" Xiangyan said, "A dragon roaring within a withered tree." "What is the person of the Way?" "An eyeball within a skull." The Master said: The ear responds to sound without resonance; the eye reflects while discarding conditions. The pure rules of boundless kalpas are perfected right therein. A place where birth and death, death and birth do not reach: clouds polish the autumn hues, and waters meet the sky.