宏智禪師廣錄 1.10

1.10

That evening, in the informal gathering, he instructed the assembly, saying: "The Dharma acts in accordance with Dharma; the Dharma banner is established everywhere. Yesterday on the river of Changlu, and now in the light of Puzhao. Patch-robed monks cannot be measured by stillness or clamor, cannot be sought in going or coming. Step by step not bringing along, mind by mind having no resting place. One must directly reach the point where the upright does not establish the profound, and the biased does not involve phenomena; everywhere without leakage, intimately and constantly manifesting before you—only then will it do. I venture to ask you all, ultimately in what place do you see Senior Monk Jue?" After a long pause, he said: "The secluded cavern is not bound by the intention of lock and key; crisscrossing freely, how could it involve a person of the two extremes?"