佛果圜悟禪師碧巖錄 7.10

7.10

If you recognize Yunmen's words, you will see where Xuedou helps people. Following the last two lines of Yunmen's instruction to the assembly, he provides a footnote for you, saying, "Look, look!" If you immediately understand this as staring with wide-open eyes, you will have no connection at all. An ancient said: "The spiritual light shines solitary, far transcending sense roots and dusts. The essence reveals the true and constant, unconfined by words and letters. The mind-nature is undefiled, originally perfected of itself; merely depart from delusive conditions, and it is the Tathāgata just as it is." If you just sit to death in staring and glaring eyes, how could you transcend sense roots and dusts? Xuedou says, "Look, look!" Yunmen is like one holding a fishing pole on the ancient bank; the clouds drift gently, the waters stretch boundlessly; the bright moon reflects on the reed flowers, and the reed flowers reflect the bright moon. Right at such a time, tell me: what realm is this? If you see directly through it, before and after are just like a single phrase. Staring (chōu gēng qiè, meaning looking straight).