宏智禪師廣錄 4.94

4.94

上堂云。體虛有照。鏡不對像而常明。用密無功。珠若在盤而自轉。夤緣莫能相結。生死不可相移。所以道。當明中有暗。勿以暗相遇。當暗中有明。勿以明相對。比如前後步。且作麼生得與麼相應去。良久云。物外獨騎千里象。萬年松下擊金鐘。

Ascending the hall, [the Master] said: The substance is empty yet possesses illumination; the mirror does not face an image yet is ever bright. The function is dense and without effort; like a pearl in a tray, it turns of itself. Causal conditions cannot bind it; birth and death cannot move it. Therefore it is said: Right within light there is darkness, do not meet it with darkness; right within darkness there is light, do not face it with light. Just like the front and back foot. How can one correspond like this? After a long pause, he said: Riding alone on a thousand-mile elephant beyond things; striking the golden bell beneath the ten-thousand-year pine.