宏智禪師廣錄 5.20

5.20

At an informal gathering, a monk asked: "'Rolling up the blinds, my eyes face a thousand elegant peaks; closing the room, my ears occasionally hear the sounds of a hundred birds.' At just such a time, is there still Buddha-Dharma or not?" The Master said: "Penetrating through sound and form, completely without reliance; among all dharmas, constantly at ease." The monk said: "Mountains, rivers, and the great earth completely expose the Dharma King's body." The Master said: "At just such a time, how do you undertake and shoulder it?" The monk said: "Have you not heard it said: 'The myriad phenomena of the universe are the style of the ancient Buddhas'?" The Master said: "You must be meticulous before you can attain it." The monk said: "An ancient said: 'Seeing is non-seeing, and non-seeing is seeing.' How do you speak of non-seeing regarding the lanterns and exposed pillars before our eyes?" The Master said: "Sense faculties and dust are completely unreliant; distinctly, they naturally communicate with each other." The monk said: "Every single thing is so; every single dharma is so." The Master said: "How did you attain being like this?" The monk said: "Not bringing forth any affairs, one attains the enjoyment of every kind." The Master said: "Your heels must touch the ground before you can attain it." The Master then said: "Pure and formless, wonderfully luminous and cutting off conditions—this single plot of land cannot be shifted through past and present. When all dharmas arise, it is naturally all dharmas arising, having nothing whatsoever to do with it; when all dharmas cease, it is naturally all dharmas ceasing, having nothing whatsoever to do with it. What has existed from the very beginning has never been borrowed; it is vast and pervasive, reaching everywhere. At just such a time, are there boundaries or not? If there are boundaries, then you have drawn limits for yourself within your fundamental mind. At the very moment when there are no boundaries, it merges completely with empty space; yet luminously it is not empty, penetrating from top to bottom, without a single speck of dust in between. If it is like this, it blends harmoniously without separation. This is where all the Buddhas are born; this is where the mountains, rivers, and great earth are established. Sentient beings are born like this; insentient things are established like this. Therefore it is said: 'Sentient and insentient share one single substance; everywhere is identical to the true Dharma realm.' Reaching such a time, mountains are the mountains of that time; waters are the waters of that time. The myriad phenomena of the universe, along with your earth, water, fire, and wind, are all established at that time, extending to forms such as long, short, large, small, square, and round, with no further difference. As soon as a discriminative mind arises, differentiated characteristics are immediately formed. When your mind is free of discrimination, equality matches equality, and there is no longer any 'equal one.' Penetrating exterior and interior, exhausting center and boundary, it is purely what is seen by your fundamental reality. If, beneath the ground of the mind, there is a single speck of doubt covering it over, inside one is fettered by sinews and bones, and outside one is dazzled by mountains and rivers, stumbling upon a bewildered path, cramped beneath the wagon shafts. If you are clear, you will be able to emerge and submerge at that time. Right at the subtle point of emerging and submerging, can you still embody it? Without using oars or paddles, the bottom of the boat falls out; coming and going, one never carries a flotation bladder."