宏智禪師廣錄 6.50

6.50

吾家一片田地。清曠瑩明。歷歷自照。虛無緣而靈。寂無思而覺。乃佛祖出沒化現。誕生涅槃之本處也。妙哉人人有之。而不能磨礱明淨。昏昏不覺。為癡覆慧而流也。一念照得破。則超出塵劫。光明清白。三際不得轉變。四相不得流化。孤耀湛存。亘古今混同異。為一切造化之母。底處發機大千。俱現盡是箇中影事。的的體取。

Our family's single plot of land is clear and vast, lustrous and bright, distinctly illuminating itself. Empty, it has no conditions yet is numinous; quiescent, it has no thoughts yet is aware. It is the original place where buddhas and patriarchs appear and disappear, transform and manifest, are born and enter nirvāṇa. Wondrous indeed! Everyone possesses it, yet they are unable to polish it bright and clean; muddled and unaware, they let delusion cover wisdom and thus drift on. If in a single thought one illuminates and penetrates it, one transcends kalpas of dust. The brightness is pure and white: the three periods of time cannot transform it, and the four marks cannot alter it. Luminescent alone, serenely enduring, it bridges ancient and modern, unifying sameness and difference, serving as the mother of all creation and transformation. When the dynamic trigger is released from this place, the great thousand worlds simultaneously appear—all are merely shadowy phenomena within this. Truly realize and embody it!