如淨和尚語錄 2.40

2.40

結夏小參。打破黑漆桶。十方空索索。不受靈山記。安居大圓覺。早晨喫粥齋時。喫飯入夜打眠。早朝又起。歷劫見前。終而復始。生死悠悠無定止。恁麼徹去。過去諸如來。斯門已敗缺。現在諸菩薩。今各無折合。未來修學人。切忌顛倒走。可中若有箇漢。出來道未在。猶是繫縛盲驢。守他鬼窟。㘞九旬垂釣。正要上鉤。還知麼。麻三斤乾屎橛。拳頭脚尖更。須悟去始得。且道。有什麼長處。毘婆尸佛早留心。直至如今不得妙。

Minor convocation for entering the summer retreat:
"Smashing the black lacquer bucket,
the ten directions are utterly empty.
Not receiving the prophecy of Gṛdhrakūṭa,
dwell in Great Perfect Enlightenment.
Eating gruel in the morning, eating rice at noon, sleeping at night, rising again at dawn.
Passing through kalpas manifest before us, ending and beginning again,
saṃsāra drifts on and on without fixity.
Penetrating thoroughly like this,
for the past Tathāgatas, this gate is already ruined and breached;
for the present bodhisattvas, now none have any compromise;
for future practitioners, by all means avoid running upside down!
If right in the midst of this there is a fellow who comes out and says, 'Not yet! You are still a tethered blind donkey guarding another's ghost cave'—
Ha! Angling for ninety days, just wanting [a fish] to take the hook.
Do you still know?
Three pounds of hemp, a dry shit stick,
fist and toe—furthermore, you must be enlightened to them before you attain it.
Tell me, what excellence is there?
Vipaśyin Buddha paid attention to it early on,
yet right down to the present, he has not attained its subtlety."