宏智禪師廣錄 6.24

6.24

道非祖傳。祖未來時。彌綸周匝。自然空空不痕。靈靈亡偶。獨照出因緣。常活離形穀。所以喚作祖。唯證相應。不可授手。佛佛之到。以此為極。應化分身。花花葉葉。根根塵塵。智入三世。萬機不我擾。一塵不我外。妙出大千經卷。何處更有影事可得。

The Way is not transmitted by ancestors. Before the ancestors arrived, it encompassed and pervaded, naturally empty and without trace, numinous and without peer. Singly illuminating, it emerges from causes and conditions; constantly alive, it is free of the husk of form. Therefore it is called the ancestor. Only experiential realization accords with it; it cannot be handed over by hand. What Buddhas and Buddhas arrive at takes this as the ultimate. Responsive manifestations divide their bodies—flower by flower, leaf by leaf, faculty by faculty, dust by dust. Wisdom enters the three periods of time; the myriad mechanisms do not disturb me, a single dust does not exclude me. Wondrously emerging from the scrolls of the great chiliocosm, where else could any shadow-affairs be found?