如淨和尚語錄 1.114

1.114

Occupying the Dharma seat, [the Master said]: "Dancing robes and singing fans, flower drums and clappers: all this is showing off many tricks on this theatre stage. Bah! Let the thousand sages step forth; standing downwind, set your eyes high! Erecting the Dharma banner, establishing the school's tenet: clearly, the Buddha's edict is Caoxi." Raising the whisk, he said: "The Dharma banner has been erected, the school's tenet has been established. But tell me, what is the Buddha's edict of Caoxi? Do you fully understand? Singing the song of great peace, there is the Way; the myriad transformations delight in non-action." Having raised the story of the cypress tree in the courtyard, he said: "The ancestral intention from the West is the cypress in the courtyard; / Nostrils solitary, facing the eyes. / As soon as the dead branch falling to the ground leaps up, / The pine creepers on the trellis laugh and toss about."