佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 1.27

1.27

The pointer says: In general, to support and uphold the ancestral school, one must be an outstanding hero. Only one with the skill of killing people without blinking an eye can become a Buddha on the spot. Therefore, illumination and function are simultaneous, rolling up and unfurling are voiced together, principle and phenomena are not two, and the provisional and the real proceed side by side. Letting go of a move, one establishes the gate of secondary truth; directly cutting off entangling vines, beginners and novices find it difficult to approach. Yesterday acting like that was an unavoidable necessity; today acting like that again is a heaven-filling transgression. If one is a clear-eyed fellow, not a speck can deceive him; but if one is not yet so, then presenting one's body inside the tiger's mouth, one cannot avoid losing body and life. Try to cite [the case] and see.