[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003) › 1.36 # 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 1.36 佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 1.36 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.1.36) 垂示云。聲前一句。千聖不傳。未曾親覲。如隔大千。設使向聲前辨得。截斷天下人舌頭。亦未是性懆漢。所以道。天不能蓋。地不能載。虛空不能容。日月不能照。無佛處獨稱尊。始較些子。其或未然。於一毫頭上透得。放大光明七縱八橫。於法自在自由。信手拈來無有不是。且道得箇什麼。如此奇特。復云。大眾會麼。從前汗馬無人識。只要重論蓋代功。即今事且致雪竇公案又作麼生。看取下文。 > The pointer says: > The phrase prior to sound is not transmitted by a thousand sages; if you have not personally beheld it, you are separated as if by a great chiliocosm. Even if you were to distinguish it prior to sound and cut off the tongues of everyone under heaven, you would still not be a fellow of fierce mettle. Therefore it is said: Heaven cannot cover it, earth cannot support it, empty space cannot contain it, sun and moon cannot illuminate it. Only when one alone is proclaimed venerable where there is no Buddha does it come a little closer. If perhaps it is not yet so, penetrating through the tip of a single hair, one emits great radiance, traversing vertically and horizontally in all directions, free and unrestrained in the Dharma; reaching out one's hand and picking it up, there is nothing that is not it. But tell me: what has been attained to be so extraordinary? He further said: Does the great assembly understand? In the past, the sweat of war-horses went unrecognised; only when one seeks once more to debate prowess that covers the age is it seen. For now, let the matters of the present moment be set aside; how is Xuedou's gong'an? Look at what follows below. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.1.35) - [Next: 1.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.1.37) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003~en-mt.1.36) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [如淨和尚語錄](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2002a.2.8) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2003.1.36) · Pramāṇa