宏智禪師廣錄 3.16
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3.16
[The Master] cited Yungai asking Shishuang: "I do not ask about when the ten thousand doors are all open; how is it when the ten thousand doors are all closed?" Shuang said, "What about the affair inside the hall?" Gai was silent. After half a year, he finally said, "No one can receive him." Shuang said, "You have indeed spoken well, but you have only said eighty percent." Gai said, "What would the Master say?" Shuang said, "No one recognizes him." The Master said, "In the secure and hidden realm, one dreads falling into merit and achievements. The clothes clinging to the body must surely be stripped off. Discerning the target within the lineage and turning the pivot beyond measure—one must be meticulous to get it. Difference within identity still clearly carries a trace of vagueness; difference within difference is truly difficult to reach the wondrous culmination. Do you reach the place where Shishuang, father and son, turned over? / The candle dawns as the jade figure first breaks from dreams; / The night is cold as the Frost Maiden has not yet mounted her loom."
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