宏智禪師廣錄 4.82

4.82

中秋日上堂。清涼境界。一壺爽氣涵秋。明白身心。半夜霧容懷月。靈然自然。廓爾常虛。斷生滅之夤緣。出有無之情量。諸人還到如是田地。還能如是遊踐也無。良久云。斫盡月中桂。清光應更多。

Ascending the hall on Mid-Autumn Day, [the Master said]: A realm of pure coolness; a flask of refreshing air contains the autumn. A clear and luminous body and mind; midnight mist embraces the moon. Numinous and natural, vast and ever empty. Severing the causal conditions of arising and ceasing, transcending the emotional calculations of being and non-being. Have you arrived at such a ground? Are you able to roam and tread like this or not? After a long pause, he said: Chop down all the cassia trees in the moon; the clear light should be even more.