宏智禪師廣錄 4.30

4.30

上堂云。五月五日天中節。百草頭上看生殺。甘草黃連自苦甜。人參附子分寒熱。薰蕕難昧雙垂爪。滋味那瞞初偃月。圓明了知心念間。摩訶迦葉能分別諸禪德。分別底是意。迦葉尊者。久滅意根。圓明了知。不由心念。且作麼生得恰好去。人平不語。水平不流。

Ascending the hall, the Master said: "The Fifth Day of the Fifth Month is the Tianzhong Festival: on the tips of the hundred grasses, look at living and killing. Licorice and coptis are naturally bitter and sweet; ginseng and aconite distinguish cold and hot. Fragrant and foul are hard to obscure when the dual claws hang down; tastes—how can they fool the newly arched moon? Clear and luminous complete knowing is within mind-moments: Mahākāśyapa is able to distinguish. Good Zen practitioners! That which distinguishes is the intellect. The Venerable Kāśyapa long ago eradicated the sense-faculty of the intellect. Clear and luminous complete knowing does not depend on mind-moments. But how to get it just right? / When a person is impartial, he does not speak; / when water is level, it does not flow."